Ezekiel 4:16
Ezekiel · Old Testament · Chapter 4
“Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:”Ezekiel 4:16
What Does Ezekiel 4:16 Mean?
Ezekiel 4:16 is found in the book of Ezekiel, chapter 4, verse 16 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Ezekiel 4:16 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Psalms 105:16“Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.”Ezekiel 5:16“When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:”Isaiah 3:1“For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.”Revelation 6:5“And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.”Leviticus 26:26“And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.”Ezekiel 14:13“Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:”Haggai 1:6“Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.”Job 21:25“And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.”Lamentations 5:9“We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.”Ezekiel 4:9“Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.”Ezekiel 4:10“And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.”Ezekiel 12:18“Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;”Deuteronomy 28:48“Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.”Psalms 80:5“Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.”Psalms 104:15“And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.”Isaiah 36:12“But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?”Micah 6:14“Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.”Job 6:7“The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.”Psalms 60:3“Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.”Ecclesiastes 5:17“All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.”
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