Ezekiel 4 · Verse 6

Ezekiel 4:6

And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
Ezekiel 4:6, King James Version

Ezekiel 4:6 in other translations

BSBWhen you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.
WEB“Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you.
ASVAnd again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it unto thee.
YLTAnd thou hast completed these, and hast lain on thy right side, a second time, and hast borne the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days--a day for a year--a day for a year I have appointed to thee.
DARBYAnd when thou hast accomplished them, thou shalt lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
BBEAnd when these days are ended, turning on your right side, you are to take on yourself the sin of the children of Judah: forty days, a day for a year, I have had it fixed for you.
WebsterAnd when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

What does Ezekiel 4:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
6. each day for a year--literally, "a day for a year, a day for a year." Twice repeated, to mark more distinctly the reference to Nu 14:34. The picturing of the future under the image of the past, wherein the meaning was far from lying on the surface, was intended to arouse to a less superficial mode of thinking, just as the partial veiling of truth in Jesus' parables was designed to stimulate inquiry; also to remind men that God's dealings in the past are a key to the future, for He moves on the same everlasting principles, the forms alone being transitory.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 Forty days - Reckon, says Archbishop Newcome, near fifteen years and six months in the reign of Manasseh, two years in that of Amon, three months in that of Jehoahaz, eleven years in that of Jehoiakim, three months and ten days in that of Jehoiachin, and eleven years in that of Zedekiah; and there arises a period of forty years, during which gross idolatry was practiced in the kingdom of Judah. Forty days may have been employed in spoiling and desolating the city and the temple.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 4:1-8

The siege of Jerusalem. (Ezek 4:1-8) The famine the inhabitants would suffer. (Ezek 4:9-17) Verses 1-8 The prophet was to represent the siege of Jerusalem by signs. He was to lie on his left side for a number of days, supposed to be equal to the years from the establishment of idolatry. All that the prophet sets before the children of his people, about the destruction of Jerusalem, is to show that sin is the…

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Ezekiel 4:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְכִלִּיתָ֣ve.khi.li.Taand you will completeH3615
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
אֵ֗לֶּה'E.lehtheseH428
וְשָׁ֨כַבְתָּ֜ve.Sha.khav.taand you will lie downH7901
עַל\־'al-onH5921
צִדְּךָ֤tzi.de.Khaside yourH6654
הַיְמָנִי֙hay.mo.ni<the> rightH3233
שֵׁנִ֔יתshe.Nita second [time]H8145
וְנָשָׂ֖אתָve.na.Sa.taand you will bearH5375
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
עֲוֹ֣ן'a.Von[the] iniquity ofH5771
בֵּית\־beit-[the] house ofH1004
יְהוּדָ֑הye.hu.DahJudahH3063
אַרְבָּעִ֣ים'ar.ba.'ImfortyH705
י֔וֹםYomday[s]H3117
י֧וֹםYoma dayH3117
לַשָּׁנָ֛הla.sha.Nahfor the yearH8141
י֥וֹםYoma dayH3117
לַשָּׁנָ֖הla.sha.Nahfor the yearH8141
נְתַתִּ֥יוne.ta.TivI have assigned itH5414
לָֽךְ\׃Lakhto you

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Cross references for Ezekiel 4:6

  • Numbers 14:34

    After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

  • Daniel 12:11-12

    And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

  • Daniel 9:24-26

    Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

  • Revelation 11:2-3

    But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

  • Revelation 13:5

    And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

  • Revelation 9:15

    And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

  • Revelation 12:14

    And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
forty days.This represented the forty years during which gross idolatry prevailed in Judah, from the reformation of Josiah, B.C. 624, to the same final desolation of the land. Some think that the period of 390 days also predicts the duration of the siege of the Babylonians, (ver. 9,) deducting from it five months and twenty-nine days, when the besiegers went to meet the Egyptians (2 Ki 25:1-4; Jer 37:5;) and that forty days may have been employed in desolating the temple and city. "Beginning from 2 Ki 23:3, 23. Ending Jer 52:30."
each day for a year. Heb. a day for a year, a day for ayear.
Nu 14:34; Da 9:24-26; 12:11,12; Re 9:15; 11:2,3; 12:14; 13:5

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Context

  • Ezekiel 4:5

    For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

  • Ezekiel 4:6

    And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

  • Ezekiel 4:7

    Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

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Ezekiel 4:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y cumplidos estos, dormirás sobre tu lado derecho segunda vez, y llevarás la maldad de la casa de Judá cuarenta días: día por año, día por año te lo he dado.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et quand tu auras accompli ceux-là, tu te coucheras une seconde fois sur ton côté droit, et tu porteras l’iniquité de la maison de Juda, 40 jours; je t’ai assigné un jour pour chaque année.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und hast du diese vollendet, so lege dich zum zweiten auf deine rechte Seite und trage die Ungerechtigkeit des Hauses Juda vierzig Tage; je einen Tag für ein Jahr habe ich dir auferlegt -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et cum compleveris hæc, dormies super latus tuum dexterum secundo, et assumes iniquitatem domus Juda quadraginta diebus: diem pro anno, diem, inquam, pro anno, dedi tibi.