Ezekiel 4:1

Rotherham⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Thou, therefore, O son of man, Take thee a tile, and lay it before thee,––and portray thereon a city, even Jerusalem.

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Ezekiel 4:1 Under the type of a siege is shewn the time from the defection of Jeroboam to the captivity.
Ezekiel 4:9 By the provision of the siege, is shewn the hardness of the famine.

take.
Ezekiel 5:1-17; Ezekiel 12:3-16; 1 Samuel 15:27; 1 Samuel 15:28; 1 Kings 11:30; 1 Kings 11:31; Isaiah 20:2-4
Jeremiah 13:1-14; Jeremiah 18:2-12; Jeremiah 19:1-15; Jeremiah 25:15-38; Jeremiah 27:2-22; Hosea 1:2-9; Hosea 3:1-5
Hosea 12:10
a tile.[Leb\u65533 bn\u65533 h,] {levainah,} generally denotes a brick, and Palladius informs us that the bricks in common use among the ancients were "two feet long, one foot broad, and four inches thick;" and on such a surface the whole siege might be easily pourtrayed. Perhaps, however, it may here denote a flat tile, like a Roman brick, which were commonly used for tablets, as we learn from Pliny, Hist. Nat. 1. vii. c. 57.
even.
Jeremiah 6:6; Jeremiah 32:31; Amos 3:2