Ezekiel 4:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 28:25 : 25 Once he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter the seed of the caraway plant, sow the seed of the cumin plant, and plant the wheat, barley, and grain in their designated places?
  • Ezek 4:13 : 13 And the LORD said,“This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”
  • Ezek 4:16 : 16 Then 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

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  • Ezek 4:10-13
    4 verses
    85%

    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.

    12And 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.”

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

  • Ezek 4:3-8
    6 verses
    82%

    3Then for your part take an iron frying pan and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.

    4“Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity.

    5I have determined that the number of the years of their iniquity are to be the number of days for you– 390 days. So bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

    6“When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days– I have assigned one day for each year.

    7You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

    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.

  • Ezek 4:15-17
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    76%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 17:28
    72%

    28brought bedding, basins, and pottery utensils. They also brought food for David and all who were with him, including wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

  • Lev 26:26
    72%

    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.

  • Ezek 3:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1He said to me,“Son of man, eat what you see in front of you– eat this scroll– and then go and speak to the house of Israel.”

    2So I opened my mouth and he fed me the scroll.

    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.

  • Exod 29:2
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    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.

  • Jer 52:6
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    6By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

  • Ezek 24:22
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 25:3
    70%

    3By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

  • Exod 29:23
    70%

    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.

  • Dan 10:3-4
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    70%

    3I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips, nor did I anoint myself with oil until the end of those three weeks.

    4On the twenty-fourth day of the first month I was beside the great river, the Tigris.

  • Ezek 12:18
    69%

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

  • Dan 1:12
    69%

    12“Please test your servants for ten days by providing us with some vegetables to eat and water to drink.

  • Mic 6:14
    69%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 19:29
    69%

    29This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.

  • Num 11:19
    69%

    19You will eat, not just one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,

  • 2 Kgs 4:41-42
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    69%

    41He said,“Get some flour.” Then he threw it into the pot and said,“Now pour some out for the men so they may eat.” There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.

    42Elisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet– twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. Elisha said,“Set it before the people so they may eat.”

  • Ezek 24:17
    69%

    17Groan to moan for the dead, but do not perform mourning rites. Bind on your turban and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your lip and do not eat food brought by others.”

  • Exod 16:16
    68%

    16“This is what the LORD has commanded:‘Each person is to gather from it what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of your people; each one will pick it up for whoever lives in his tent.’”

  • Gen 6:21
    68%

    21And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.”

  • Ezek 13:19
    68%

    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!

  • Jer 19:9
    68%

    9I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another.”’”

  • Deut 8:3
    68%

    3So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the LORD’s mouth.

  • Ezek 14:13
    68%

    13“Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

  • Ezek 45:13
    68%

    13“‘This is the offering you must offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley,

  • Isa 37:30
    68%

    30“This will be your reminder that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own. But the year after that you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.

  • Ezek 5:2
    68%

    2Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.

  • 1 Kgs 4:22
    68%

    22Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed thirty cors of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal,

  • Exod 16:32
    68%

    32Moses said,“This is what the LORD has commanded:‘Fill an omer with it to be kept for generations to come, so that they may see the food I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.’”

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

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    21Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse. He also ordered that a loaf of bread be given to him every day from the baker’s street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah was kept in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

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    5with one-tenth of an ephah of finely ground flour as a grain offering mixed with one quarter of a hin of pressed olive oil.

  • Ezek 2:8
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    8As for you, son of man, listen to what I am saying to you: Do not rebel like that rebellious house! Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”