Ezekiel 4:11

11 You shall also drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time 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 "Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it.

10 And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it.

11 You shall also drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink.

12 And you shall eat it as barley cakes; and bake it using fuel of human waste in their sight."

13 Then the Lord said, "So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them."