Ezekiel 4:12

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Eat it as you would a barley cake, baking it over human dung in their sight.

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  • Isa 36:12 : 12 But the Rabshakeh replied, 'Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words? Has he not sent me to the men sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?'
  • Gen 18:6 : 6 So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, 'Quickly prepare three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread.'

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  • Ezek 4:13-17
    5 verses
    86%

    13 The Lord said, 'In this way the people of Israel will eat their defiled bread among the nations where I will drive them.'

    14 Then I said, 'Ah, Lord God, I have never been defiled! From my youth until now, I have never eaten anything that died naturally or was torn by animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.'

    15 He said to me, 'Look, I have given you cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may use it to bake your bread.'

    16 Then He said to me, 'Son of man, I am about to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight and in anxiety, and they will drink water by measure and in despair.'

    17 'In this way, they will lack bread and water, and they will be appalled at one another and waste away because of their iniquity.'

  • Ezek 4:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8 I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

    9 Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in one container, and make bread for yourself. For the number of days that you lie on your side—three hundred ninety days—you will eat it.

    10 The amount you eat each day will be twenty shekels by weight, and you will eat it at set times each day.

    11 You are to drink water by measure, a sixth of a hin, at set times each day.

  • 3 Behold, I will rebuke your descendants and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your feasts, and it will be carried away with you.

  • 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

  • 22 You shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips nor eat the bread of mourning.

  • 5 You shall take fine flour and bake it into twelve loaves. Each loaf will be made with two tenths of an ephah.

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    17 The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    18 Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with shaking and anxiety.

    19 Say to the people of the land, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in desolation, for their land will be stripped of all it contains because of the violence of all who live there.’

  • 14 You will eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness will remain within you. You will store up but not save, and what you do save, I will give over to the sword.

  • 2 Also, take unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. They shall be made of fine wheat flour.

  • 19 Also, the food I provided for you–the fine flour, oil, and honey that I fed you–you set before them as a pleasing aroma. And so it was, declares the Lord GOD.

  • 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied.

  • 20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings, you shall eat unleavened bread.

  • 22 Then you will defile your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, 'Away with you!'

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    24 You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

    25 Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • 10 'You must eat it in a most holy place. Every male may eat it; it is holy to you.'

  • 32 Burn up the remainder of the meat and bread in the fire.

  • 12 But the Rabshakeh replied, 'Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words? Has he not sent me to the men sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?'

  • 12 But you profane it by saying, 'The LORD's table is defiled, and its food is contemptible.'

  • Num 15:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19 and you eat the bread of the land, you shall present an offering to the Lord.

    20 You must bring the first portion of your dough as an offering to the Lord, like the contribution from the threshing floor, so you shall offer it.

  • 19 Must My flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

  • 19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not live.

  • 28 Make sure the land does not vomit you out when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was there before you.

  • 25 You must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner to offer as the food of your God. They are deformed and have defects; they will not be accepted on your behalf.

  • 10 Then you are to break the jar in the presence of those who are with you.

  • 15 'I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them until I have finished them off.'

  • 27 But the Rab-shakeh replied, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you only? Has he not sent me to the people sitting on the wall—who will have to eat their excrement and drink their urine with you?"

  • 17 I will bring distress on mankind, and they will walk like the blind because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

  • 6 For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day, there shall be a festival to the LORD.

  • 13 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.

  • Exod 12:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8 They shall eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

    9 Do not eat it raw or boiled in water, but only roasted over the fire—its head, legs, and inner parts.

  • 4 They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will lie like dung on the ground. They will perish by the sword and famine, and their corpses will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

  • 3 He said to me, "Son of man, let this scroll fill your stomach and satisfy your insides. I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth."

  • 15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you throughout the lands, and I will cleanse you from your impurity.

  • 17 'Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it with their conduct and actions. Their way was as unclean as a woman's impurity in my sight.

  • 35 Anything on which one of their carcasses falls will become unclean; an oven or cooking stove must be broken. They are unclean, and they will remain unclean to you.

  • 23 Along with one loaf of bread, one cake made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread set before the Lord.

  • 24 Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.