Ezekiel 4:9
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Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, shall you eat of it.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageJerusalem was Judah’s capital, where the temple stood and where many exiles hoped restoration would begin. In Ezekiel’s enacted sign, the siege conditions represented by his sparse, measured bread warn that Jerusalem itself would soon endure famine under Babylonian attack because of the people’s sin.
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