1. EZEKIEL CHAPTER FOUR

2. PROPHET - DATE JONAH(825-785BC)? JOEL(800BC)? HOSEA(785-725BC)? MICAH(785-710BC)? AMOS(784BC)? ISAIAH(701-681BC)? NAHUM (700BC)? ZEPHANIAH(630BC)? JEREMIAH(629-588BC)? DANIEL (606-534BC)? HABAKKUK(598BC)? EZEKIEL (597-573BC)? OBADIAH(588-562BC)? EZRA (536-456BC)? HAGGAI (532-512BC)? ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)? ESTHER (485-465BC)? NEHEMIAH (465-424BC)? MALACHI (420-397BC)? KING / EVENT - DATE TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)? HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)? SHALMANESER (727-722BC)? ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)? ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) (597-586BC)? JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)? BELSHAZZAR (541-523BC)? CYRUS (559-529BC)? BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)? DARIUS (511-475BC)?

3. OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER FOUR CHALDEANS SURROUND JERUSALEMV. 1-3 EZEKIEL LIES ON HIS LEFT SIDE 390 DAYS AND ON HIS RIGHT SIDE 40 DAYSV. 4-8 SIEGE OF JERUSALEM DESCRIBEDV. 9-17

4. READ:EZEKIEL 4:1-3 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 1"You also, son of man, take a clay tablet and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, Jerusalem. 2Lay siege against it, build a siege wall against it, and heap up a mound against it; set camps against it also, and place battering rams against it all around. 3Moreover take for yourself an iron plate, and set it as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

5. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:1-3 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 1"You also, son of man, take a clay tablet and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, Jerusalem. 2Lay siege against it, build a siege wall against it, and heap up a mound against it; set camps against it also, and place battering rams against it all around. 3Moreover take for yourself an iron plate, and set it as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel. WHAT WAS EZEKIEL TO PORTRAY ON THE TABLET? JERUSALEM?A FORT?A MOUNT? ENEMY ENCAMPMENT?BATTERING RAMS? A WALL ROUND ABOUT THE CITY?

6. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:1-3 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 1"You also, son of man, take a clay tablet and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, Jerusalem. 2Lay siege against it, build a siege wall against it, and heap up a mound against it; set camps against it also, and place battering rams against it all around. 3Moreover take for yourself an iron plate, and set it as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel. WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS? WHAT ABOUT THE RIGHTEOUS? READ:PSALMS 34:16-17 16 The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. 17 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles. NKJV

7. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:1-3 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED READ:JEREMIAH 6:6 6 For thus has the LORD of hosts said: "Cut down trees, And build a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished. She is full of oppression in her midst. NKJV WHEN DID THIS TO COME TO PASS? READ:JEREMIAH 52:4-5 4Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around. 5So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.NKJV

8. READ:EZEKIEL 4:4-6 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 4"Lie also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. 5For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year.

9. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:4-6 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 4"Lie also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. 5For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year. WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND EZEKIEL TO DO? LIE ON HIS LEFT SIDE 390 DAYS? AND ON HIS RIGHT SIDE 40 DAYS? WHAT DID THIS REPRESENT?

10. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:4-6 WHAT DID LYING ON HIS SIDE REPRESENT? EZEKIEL: REPRESENTS THE JEWS & JERUSALEM? LYING DOWN: REPRESENTS DEPRESSION? 390 DAYS & 40 DAYS = 430 DAYS: LENGTH OF SIEGE? READ: 2 KINGS 25:1-3 & JEREMIAH 52:4-6

11. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:4-6 WHAT DID LYING ON HIS SIDE REPRESENT? 390 DAYS & 40 DAYS = 430 DAYS: LENGTH OF SIEGE? HOW LONG DID THE SIEGE LAST? 430 DAYS? READ:2 KINGS 25:1-3 1Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around. 2So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. NKJV

12. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:4-6 HOW LONG DID THE SIEGE LAST? 430 DAYS? READ:JEREMIAH 52:4-6 4Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around. 5So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 6By the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

13. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:4-6 HOW LONG DID THEY WANDER IN THE WILDERNESS? FORTY YEARS: 1 YEAR FOR EACH DAY? READ:NUMBERS 14:33-35 33And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. 34According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection. 35I the LORD have spoken this. I will surely do so to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.'" NKJV

14. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:4-6 HOW LONG DID THE SIEGE LAST? 430 DAYS? HOW LONG DID THE JEWS SOJOURN IN EGYPT? 430 YEARS? READ:EXODUS 12:40-41 40 Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. 41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years — on that very same day — it came to pass that all the armies of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. NKJV READ:GALATIANS 3:17 17 And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect.NKJV

15. READ:EZEKIEL 4:7-8 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 7"Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem; your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it. 8And surely I will restrain you so that you cannot turn from one side to another till you have ended the days of your siege.

16. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:7-8 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 7"Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem; your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it. 8And surely I will restrain you so that you cannot turn from one side to another till you have ended the days of your siege. WHAT DID THE LORD WANT EZEKIEL TO DO? WHO WILL RESTRAIN EZEKIEL?HOW LONG? REMEMBER:EZEKIEL 3:25 25 And you, O son of man, surely they will put ropes on you and bind you with them, so that you cannot go out among them. NKJV

17. READ:EZEKIEL 4:9-12 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 9"Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it. 10And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it. 11You shall also drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink. 12And you shall eat it as barley cakes; and bake it using fuel of human waste in their sight."

18. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:9-12 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 9"Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it. 10And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it. 11You shall also drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink. 12And you shall eat it as barley cakes; and bake it using fuel of human waste in their sight." HOW WOULD EZEKIEL SURVIVE 390 DAYS? WHAT WOULD HE EAT AND DRINK? HOW WOULD HE BAKE HIS BARLEY CAKES?

19. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:9-12 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED HOW WOULD EZEKIEL SURVIVE 390 DAYS? WHAT HAPPENED TO JEREMIAH? READ:JEREMIAH 37:21 21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah to the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread from the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. NKJV WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHILDREN? READ:LAMENTATIONS 4:4 4 The tongue of the infant clings To the roof of its mouth for thirst; The young children ask for bread, But no one breaks it for them. NKJV

20. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:9-12 REMEMBER DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDS? READ:DANIEL 1:8-12 8But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. 9Now God had brought Daniel into the favor and goodwill of the chief of the eunuchs. 11So Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 12"Please test your servants for ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink. NKJV

21. READ:EZEKIEL 4:13-14 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 13 Then the LORD said, "So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them." 14 So I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has abominable flesh ever come into my mouth."

22. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:13-14 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 13 Then the LORD said, "So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them." 14 So I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has abominable flesh ever come into my mouth." WHAT WILL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL EAT? HOW DID EZEKIEL RESPOND?

23. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:13 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 13 Then the LORD said, "So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them." WHAT WILL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL EAT? WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL? READ:DEUTERONOMY 14:3 3You shall not eat any detestable thing. NKJV WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HOSEA? READ:HOSEA 9:3 3 They shall not dwell in the LORD‘S land, But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And shall eat unclean things in Assyria. NKJV

24. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:13 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 13 Then the LORD said, "So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them." WHAT WILL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL EAT? DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL ABOUT THIS? READ:LEVITICUS 26:26 26 When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied. NKJV

25. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:13 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 13 Then the LORD said, "So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them." WHAT DID AHAB DO TO MICAIAH?WHY? READ:1 KINGS 22:26-28 26 So the king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah, and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son; 27 and say, 'Thus says the king: "Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction, until I come in peace."'" 28But Micaiah said, "If you ever return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." And he said, "Take heed, all you people!" NKJV

26. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:14 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 14 So I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has abominable flesh ever come into my mouth." HOW DID EZEKIEL RESPOND? HOW DID PETER RESPOND TO THE LORD? READ:ACTS 10:11-16

27. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:14 HOW DID PETER RESPOND TO THE LORD? READ:ACTS 10:11-15 11and saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth. 12In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air. 13And a voice came to him, "Rise, Peter; kill and eat." 14But Peter said, "Not so, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean." 15And a voice spoke to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."

28. READ:EZEKIEL 4:15-17 15 Then He said to me, "See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it." 16 Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread, 17that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity. NKJV

29. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:15-17 15 Then He said to me, "See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it." 16 Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread, 17that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity. NKJV WHAT DID THE LORD GIVE EZEKIEL?WHY? WOULD HIS BREAD STILL BE DEFILED? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?WHY?

30. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:15-17 16 Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread, 17that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity. NKJV WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?WHY? DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL ABOUT THIS? READ:DEUTERONOMY 28:48 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.

31. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:15-17 16 Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread, 17that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity. NKJV WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?WHY? READ:PSALMS 105:16 16 Moreover He called for a famine in the land; He destroyed all the provision of bread. NKJV

32. QUESTIONS:EZEKIEL 4:17 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED 17that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity. NKJV WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?WHY? READ:2 KINGS 25:3 3 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. NKJV READ:ISAIAH 3:1 1For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, Takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah The stock and the store, The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water;NKJV