Ezekiel 4:11

11 And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; once a day you shall drink.

Ezekiel 4:11 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 4:11

Thou shall drink also water by measure
Not wine, but water; and this not as much as he would, but a certain measure; which shows great want of it, and expresses a very distressed condition see ( Lamentations 5:4 ) ; the sixth part of an hin;
a hin held twelve logs, or seventy two egg shells, or about three quarts of our measure; and the sixth part of one were two logs, or twelve egg shells, and about a pint of our measure; so that it was but a pint of water a day that the prophet was allowed, as a token of the great scarcity of it in the siege of Jerusalem: from time to time shalt thou drink:
as before.

Ezekiel 4:11 In-Context

9 "And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt, and put them into a single vessel, and make bread of them. During the number of days that you lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it.

10 And the food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; once a day you shall eat it.

11 And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; once a day you shall drink.

12 And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung."

13 And the LORD said, "Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them."