Ezechiele 4:2

2 E ponvi l’assedio, e fabbrica delle bastie contro ad essa, e fa’ contro a lei un argine, e ponvi campo, e disponi contro a lei d’ogn’intorno dei trabocchi.

Ezechiele 4:2 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 4:2

And lay siege against it
In his own person, as in ( Ezekiel 4:3 ) ; or draw the form of a siege, or figure of an army besieging a city; or rather of the instruments and means used in a siege, as follows: and build a fort against it:
Kimchi interprets it a wooden tower, built over against the city, to subdue it; Jarchi takes it to be an instrument by which stones were cast into the city; and so the Arabic version renders it, "machines to cast stones"; the Targum, a fortress; so Nebuchadnezzar in reality did what was here only done in type, ( 2 Kings 25:1 ) ; where the same word is used as here: and cast a mount about it;
a heap of earth cast up, in order to look into the city, cast in darts, and mount the walls; what the French call "bastion", as Jarchi observes: set the camp also against it;
place the army in their tents about it: and set [battering] rams against it round about;
a warlike instrument, that had an iron head, and horns like a ram, with which in a siege the walls of a city were battered and beaten down. Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, interpret the word of princes and generals of the army, who watched at the several corners of the city, that none might go in and out; so the Targum seems to understand it ^F2. The Arabic version is, "mounts to cast darts"; (See Gill on Ezekiel 21:22).

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 So R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 50. 9.

Ezechiele 4:2 In-Context

1 E TU, figliuol d’uomo, prenditi un mattone, e mettitelo davanti, e disegna sopra esso una città, cioè Gerusalemme.

2 E ponvi l’assedio, e fabbrica delle bastie contro ad essa, e fa’ contro a lei un argine, e ponvi campo, e disponi contro a lei d’ogn’intorno dei trabocchi.

3 Prenditi eziandio una piastra di ferro, e ponila per muro di ferro fra te, e la città; e ferma la tua faccia contro ad essa, e sia assediata, e tu assediala. Questo è un segno alla casa d’Israele.

4 Poi giaci sopra il tuo lato sinistro, e metti sopra esso l’iniquità della casa di Israele; tu porterai la loro iniquità per tanto numero di giorni, quanti tu giacerai sopra quello.

5 Ed io ti ordino gli anni della loro iniquità, secondo il numero de’ giorni che tu giacerai così, che saranno trecennovanta giorni; e così porterai l’iniquità della casa d’Israele.