Ezekiel 4:10

"“Take for yourself also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel. Make bread of it. According to the number of the days that you will lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it."

Key Reflection

In Ezekiel 4:10, God instructs the prophet Ezekiel to prepare a variety of grains—wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt—and mix them together in one vessel to make bread for himself during his symbolic act of lying on his side. This act lasted three hundred ninety days, representing different periods of judgment against the nations. The inclusion of multiple types of grain reflects a rich, diverse diet typical of ancient Israel, symbolizing the varied experiences and fates that would befall those nations under divine judgment.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

meat -A general term for food, which in this case consists of grain. Instead of measuring, it was necessary in extreme scarcity to weigh itLeviticus 26:26;Revelation 6:6. Twenty shekels a day -The shekel contained about 220 grains, so that 20 shekels would be about 56 of a pound. From time to time -Thou shalt receive and eat it at the appointed interval of a day.

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