You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink.
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You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink.
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Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
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Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time shalt thou drink.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 4:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 5:13 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
- Ezekiel 4:16 Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;
- John 3:34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Read Exod. 29:40.
Read Exod. 29:40.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 4:11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure,…
Eze 4:11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Ver. 11. From time to time shalt thou drink,] i.e., At thy set times, in stata tempera comparcito, make no waste: the least drop is precious.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Water; not wine or cordial drinks, but cold and…
Water; not wine or cordial drinks, but cold and thin water, nor a bellyful of this.
The sixth part of an hin; about six ounces of water, and that measured out by others to him that drinks it, scarce enough to keep the man alive. Such proportions of bread and water rather fed death than the man, yet more could not be had when the besiegers were masters of both fields and fountains, and cut off all from the city.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou shall drink also water by measure,.... Not wine,…
Thou shall drink also water by measure,.... Not wine, but water; and this not as much as he would, but a certain measure; which shows great want of it, and expresses a very distressed condition see Lam 5:4;
the sixth part of an hin; a hin held twelve logs, or seventy two egg shells, or about three quarts of our measure; and the sixth part of one were two logs, or twelve egg shells, and about a pint of our measure; so that it was but a pint of water a day that the prophet was allowed, as a token of the great scarcity of it in the siege of Jerusalem:
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from time to time shalt thou drink: as before.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The sixth part - About six ounces.
The sixth part - About six ounces.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Water by measure - This probably corresponds to the…
Water by measure - This probably corresponds to the water of affliction 1Ki 22:27; Isa 30:20. The measure of the hin is variously estimated by Jewish writers. The sixth part of a hin will be according to one estimate about 610ths, according to another 910ths of a pint. The lesser estimate is more suitable here.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain sixth . . . of . . . hin--about…
sixth . . . of . . . hin--about a pint and a half.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. The sixth… of a hin — A hin…
11. The sixth… of a hin — A hin Isa_6:07 liters (Kautzsch). A liter contained 1.056 quarts, so one sixth hin would be a little more than two pints; terribly little in so hot a country. Surely this might have been called the “bread of affliction and the water of affliction” (1Ki_22:27; Isa_30:20).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. sixth part of a hin] The hin was…
11. sixth part of a hin] The hin was rather less than a gallon, and the sixth part under a quart. Both the bread and water were to be consumed from time to time, always in unsatisfying quantities.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) The sixth part of an hin.—There is also…
(11) The sixth part of an hin.—There is also a difference among the authorities as to the measures of capacity for liquids. These would make the sixth part of an hin from six-tenths to nine-tenths of a pint. This also was to be drunk once a day.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The sixth, part of a hin, etc. According to…
The sixth, part of a hin, etc. According to the varying accounts of the "hin" given by Jewish writers, this would give from.6 to.9 of a pint. And this was, like the food, to be doled out once a day. Possibly "the bread of affliction and the water of affliction," in 1Ki_22:27. Isa_30:20, contains a reference to the quantity as well as thequality of a prison dietary as thus described. Isaiah"s words may refer to the siege of Sennacherib, as Ezekiel"s do to the siege of Nebuchadnezzar.
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