SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:3
Y tú tómate una sartén de hierro, y ponla en lugar de muro de hierro entre ti y la ciudad, y afirmarás tu rostro contra ella, y será en lugar de cerco, y la sitiarás. Es señal a la Casa de Israel.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 4:3
Verse 3. Take thou unto thee an iron pan] tbjm machabath, a flat plate or slice, as the margin properly renders it: such as are used in some countries to bake bread on, called a griddle or girdle, being suspended above the fire, and kept in a proper degree of heat for the purpose. A plate like this, stuck perpendicularly in the earth, would show the nature of a wall much better than any pan could do. The Chaldeans threw such a wall round Jerusalem, to prevent the besieged from receiving any succours, and from escaping from the city. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.] This shall be an emblematical representation of what shall actually take place.
Matthew Henry Commentary
The siege of Jerusalem. (Ezek. 4:1-8) The famine the inhabitants woul suffer. (Ezek. 4:9-17)
Ezek. 4:1-8 The prophet was to represent the siege of Jerusalem by signs. He was to lie on his left side for a number of days, supposed to be equal to the years from the establishment of idolatry. All that the prophet sets before the children of his people, about the destructio of Jerusalem, is to show that sin is the provoking cause of the ruin of that once flourishing city.
Ezek. 4:9-17 The bread which was Ezekiel's support, was to be made of coarse grain and pulse mixed together, seldom used except in times of urgent scarcity, and of this he was only to take a small quantity. Thu was figured the extremity to which the Jews were to be reduced durin the siege and captivity. Ezekiel does not plead, Lord, from my youth have been brought up delicately, and never used to any thing like this but that he had been brought up conscientiously, and never had eate any thing forbidden by the law. It will be comfortable when we ar brought to suffer hardships, if our hearts can witness that we have always been careful to keep even from the appearance of evil. See what woful work sin makes, and acknowledge the righteousness of God herein Their plenty having been abused to luxury and excess, they were justl punished by famine. When men serve not God with cheerfulness in the abundance of all things, God will make them serve their enemies in the want of all things __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ואתה 859 קח 3947 לך מחבת 4227 ברזל 1270 ונתתה 5414 אותה 853 קיר 7023 ברזל 1270 בינך 996 ובין 996 העיר 5892 והכינתה 3559 את 853 פניך 6440 אליה 413 והיתה 1961 במצור 4692 וצרת 6696 עליה 5921 אות 226 היא 1931 לבית 1004 ישׂראל׃ 3478
