Ezekiel 4:3

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Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

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Jerusalem was Judah’s capital, centered in the hill country of southern Canaan, where the temple stood and God’s covenant people worshiped. In Ezekiel’s sign-act, the city represents the besieged population whose coming judgment Babylon would bring because of Judah’s rebellion.

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Ezekiel 4:3 mentions Jerusalem.

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