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You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:
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A Familiar Medium
Commentators explain that God's command to use a clay tile, or brick, was not random. In ancient Babylon, where Ezekiel was an exile, clay tablets were the common medium for writing and drawing, much like paper today. This made the prophetic sign culturally relevant and immediately understandable to its audience.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A tile - Rather, a brick. Sun-dried or kiln-burned bricks were from very early times used for building walls throughout the plain of Mesopot…
19th Century
Anglican
Take you a tile. —The use of tiles for such purposes as the one indicated here was common both in Babylonia and in Nineve…
16th Century
Protestant
Here God begins to speak more openly through His servant, and not to speak only, but to signify by an outward symbol what He wishes to be uttered b…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You also, son of man, take a tileF26. Or "brick". The Targum renders it, a "stone"; but a tile or brick, espec…
The prophet was to represent the siege of Jerusalem by signs. He was to lie on his left side for a number of days, understood to be equal to the ye…
