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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 4:15 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Eze 4:15 |
King James |
Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| cow's dung--a mitigation of the former order (Eze 4:12); no longer "the dung of man"; still the bread so baked is "defiled," to imply that, whatever partial abatement there might be for the prophet's sake, the main decree of God, as to the pollution of Israel by exile among Gentiles, is unalterable. |
12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.