Ezekiel 4:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 36:12 : 12 But the chief adviser said,“My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!”
  • Gen 18:6 : 6 So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah,“Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread.”

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  • Ezek 4:13-17
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    86%

    13And the LORD said,“This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”

    14And I said,“Ah, Sovereign LORD, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”

    15So he said to me,“All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”

    16Then he said to me,“Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror

    17because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.

  • Ezek 4:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.

    9“As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side– 390 days– you will eat it.

    10The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.

    11And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times.

  • Mal 2:3
    74%

    3I am about to discipline your children and will spread offal on your faces, the very offal produced at your festivals, and you will be carried away along with it.

  • Lev 26:29
    72%

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

  • Ezek 24:22
    72%

    22Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.

  • Lev 24:5
    71%

    5“You must take choice wheat flour and bake twelve loaves; there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in each loaf,

  • Ezek 12:17-19
    3 verses
    71%

    17The LORD’s message came to me:

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

    19Then say to the people of the land,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it.

  • Mic 6:14
    71%

    14You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.

  • Exod 29:2
    71%

    2and bread made without yeast, and perforated cakes without yeast mixed with oil, and wafers without yeast spread with oil– you are to make them using fine wheat flour.

  • Ezek 16:19
    71%

    19As for my food that I gave you– the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you– you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Lev 26:26
    71%

    26When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

  • Exod 12:20
    71%

    20You will not eat anything made with yeast; in all the places where you live you must eat bread made without yeast.’”

  • Isa 30:22
    70%

    22You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them,“Get out!”

  • Deut 12:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

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

    25You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the LORD’s sight.

  • Num 18:10
    70%

    10You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.

  • Lev 8:32
    70%

    32but the remainder of the meat and the bread you must burn with fire.

  • Isa 36:12
    70%

    12But the chief adviser said,“My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!”

  • Mal 1:12
    70%

    12“But you are profaning it by saying that the table of the Lord is common and its offerings despicable.

  • Num 15:19-20
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    19and you eat some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering to the LORD.

    20You must offer up a cake of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering; as you offer the raised offering of the threshing floor, so you must offer it up.

  • Ezek 34:19
    70%

    19As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet!

  • Ezek 13:19
    70%

    19You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. You have put to death people who should not die and kept alive those who should not live by your lies to my people, who listen to lies!

  • Lev 18:28
    70%

    28So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

  • Lev 22:25
    69%

    25Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”

  • Jer 19:10
    69%

    10The LORD continued,“Now break the jar in front of those who have come here with you.

  • Lev 6:28
    69%

    28Any clay vessel it is boiled in must be broken, and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then that vessel must be rubbed out and rinsed in water.

  • Jer 9:15
    69%

    15So then, listen to what I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, say.‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.

  • 2 Kgs 18:27
    69%

    27But the chief adviser said to them,“My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.”

  • Zeph 1:17
    69%

    17I will bring distress on the people and they will stumble like blind men, for they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dirt; their flesh will be scattered like manure.

  • Exod 13:6
    69%

    6For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the LORD.

  • Deut 23:13
    69%

    13You must have a spade among your other equipment and when you relieve yourself outside you must dig a hole with the spade and then turn and cover your excrement.

  • Exod 12:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

    9Do not eat it raw or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, its legs, and its entrails.

  • Jer 16:4
    69%

    4They will die of deadly diseases. No one will mourn for them. They will not be buried. Their dead bodies will lie like manure spread on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation. Their corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals.

  • Ezek 3:3
    69%

    3He said to me,“Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.” So I ate it, and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.

  • Ezek 22:15
    69%

    15I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.

  • Ezek 36:17
    69%

    17“Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their behavior and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her monthly period.

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    69%

    35Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean to you.

  • Exod 29:23
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    23and one round flat cake of bread, one perforated cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the LORD.

  • Lev 18:24
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    24Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.