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Ezekiel 4:17 Cross-References
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“That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.”
Ezekiel 4:17 (KJV)
Commentary on Ezekiel 4:17
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. This devastating conclusion explains God's purpose in the famine: experiencing comprehensive lack will expose their iniquity's true consequences. "Want" (yachseru, יַחְסְרוּ) means to lack, be without, or suffer deficiency. "Be astonied one with another" (venashshammu ish ve'achiv, וְנָשַׁמּוּ אִישׁ וְאָחִיו) depicts mutual horror—people staring at each other in stunned disbelief at their collective degradation."Consume away" (namaqqu, נָמַקּוּ) means to rot, waste away, or pine—describin...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Ezekiel 4:17
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“and your shoes on your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away in your iniquities”
“And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.”
“son of man”