Ezekiel - 4:1 Meaning
“Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
4:1-8 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 provoking cause of the ruin of that once flourishing city.
“And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.”