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Ezekiel 4:1

Listen to Ezekiel 4:1
1 Et toi, fils de l'homme, prends une brique, place-la devant toi, et tu y traceras une ville, Jérusalem.

Ezekiel 4:1 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 4:1

Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile
Or "brick" F26. The Targum renders it, a "stone"; but a tile or brick, especially one that is not dried and burned, but green, is more fit to cut in it the figure of a city. Some think that this was ordered because cities are built of brick; or to show the weakness of the city of Jerusalem, how easily it might be demolished; and Jerom thinks there was some design to lead the Jews to reflect upon their making bricks in Egypt, and their hard service there; though perhaps the truer reason may be, because the Babylonians had been used to write upon tiles. Epigenes F1 says they had celestial observations of a long course of years, written on tiles; hence the prophet is bid to describe Jerusalem on one, which was to be destroyed by the king of Babylon; and lay it before thee:
as persons do, who are about to draw a picture, make a portrait, or engrave the form of anything they intend: and portray upon it the city; [even] Jerusalem;
or engrave upon it, by making incisions on it, and so describing the form and figure of the city of Jerusalem.


FOOTNOTES:

F26 (hnbl) "laterem", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Polanus. Piscator.
F1 Apud Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 7. c. 56.
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Ezekiel 4:1 In-Context

1 Et toi, fils de l'homme, prends une brique, place-la devant toi, et tu y traceras une ville, Jérusalem.
2 Représente-la en état de siège, forme des retranchements, élève contre elle des terrasses, environne-la d'un camp, dresse contre elle des béliers tout autour.
3 Prends une poêle de fer, et mets-la comme un mur de fer entre toi et la ville; dirige ta face contre elle, et elle sera assiégée, et tu l'assiégeras. Que ce soit là un signe pour la maison d'Israël!
4 Puis couche-toi sur le côté gauche, mets-y l'iniquité de la maison d'Israël, et tu porteras leur iniquité autant de jours que tu seras couché sur ce côté.
5 Je te compterai un nombre de jours égal à celui des années de leur iniquité, trois cent quatre-vingt-dix jours; tu porteras ainsi l'iniquité de la maison d'Israël.
The Louis Segond 1910 is in the public domain.

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