The staff of bread - Bread is so called because it is that on which the support of life mainly depends.

With astonishment - Wi…

I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. —In Ezekiel 4:16-17, the meaning of the preceding symbolism is declared in plain language. B…

God returns again to the citizens of Jerusalem and announces that they would be so destroyed by famine that they would be reduced to the direst ext…

Moreover he said unto me, son of man What follows opens the design, and shows what was intended by the symbol of the misc…

The bread that was Ezekiel's support was to be made of coarse grain and pulse mixed together, seldom used except in times of urgent scarcity, and h…