Ezekiel 4:1

God tells Ezekiel to take a clay tablet and portray Jerusalem on it. This begins a dramatized prophecy of Jerusalem's siege.

Cross-references · 16

• Hos 1:2–9When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”
• Jer 6:6For Yahweh of Armies said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression within her.
• Jer 13:1–14Yahweh says to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”
• Ezek 12:3–16“Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight. You shall move from your place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
• Jer 32:31For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
• Hos 12:10I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
• Hos 3:1–5Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
• Jer 18:2–12“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”
• 1 Kgs 11:30–31Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.
• Ezek 5:1–17“You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.
• 1 Sam 15:27–28As Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
• Amos 3:2“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
• Jer 27:2–22Yahweh says to me: “Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck.
• Jer 25:15–38For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
• Isa 20:2–4at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
• Jer 19:1–15Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

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