Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:1-8 Under the type of a siege is shown the time from the defection of Jeroboam to the captivity 9-17 By the provision of the siege, is shown the hardness of the famine
take Eze 5:1 12:3 1Sa 15:27,28 1Ki 11:30,31 Isa 20:2-4 Jer 13:1-14 18:2 19:1 25:15 27:2 Ho 1:2 3:1-5 12:10
a tile. [], [levainah] generally denotes a brick, and Palladius in- forms 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.

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