And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
The allowance was Ezekiel's own food in his symbolic enactment, twenty shekels a day measured by weight. It was to be eaten from time to time, at set, measured intervals. It was a famine ration, only twenty shekels a day, forming part of his privations. This measured eating belonged to a real acted miniature performing the siege of Jerusalem and its consequence, with the limited daily food depicting the privation of the siege.
The restricted diet was a prophetic sign of the awful judgments awaiting the Jews and of the famine that would come upon Israel. It represented the scant, restricted food the children of Israel would eat in their captivity among the Gentiles.
The measured, limited ration also applies to faithful people who may endure a long hardship receiving little before God rewards their faithfulness. They may receive sometimes only food in a measure, even the bread and water of affliction.
The allowance was Ezekiel's own food in his symbolic enactment, twenty shekels a day measured by weight. It was to be eaten from time to time, at set, measured intervals. It was a famine ration, only twenty shekels a day, forming part of his privations. This measured eating belonged to a real acted miniature performing the siege of Jerusalem and its consequence, with the limited daily food depicting the privation of the siege.
The restricted diet was a prophetic sign of the awful judgments awaiting the Jews and of the famine that would come upon Israel. It represented the scant, restricted food the children of Israel would eat in their captivity among the Gentiles.
The measured, limited ration also applies to faithful people who may endure a long hardship receiving little before God rewards their faithfulness. They may receive sometimes only food in a measure, even the bread and water of affliction.