Try out the new Click here!  Ezekiel 4  Chapter 4  Ezekiel was
now among the captives in Babylon, but they there had Jerusalem
still upon their hearts; the pious captives looked towards it
with an eye of faith (as Daniel. 6:10 ), the presumptuous ones
looked towards it with an eye of pride, and flattered themselves
with a conceit that they should shortly return thither again;
those that remained corresponded with the captives, and, it is
likely, bouyed them up with hopes that all would be well yet, as
long as Jerusalem was standing in its strength, and perhaps
upbraided those with their folly who had surrendered at first;
therefore, to take down this presumption, God gives the prophet,
in this chapter, a very clear and affecting foresight of the
besieging of Jerusalem by the Chaldean army and the calamities
which would attend that siege. Two things are here represented
to him in vision:— I. The fortifications that should be raised
against the city; this is signified by the prophet’s laying
siege to the portra