Ezekiel 4:2 Parallel Translations

Set up a blockade against it, build attack walls around it, put up dirt ramps around it, have troops ready to attack it, and place battering rams all around it.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

ASV:

and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.

BBE:

And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.

DBY:

and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast a mound against it, and set camps against it, and place battering-rams against it round about.

ERV:

and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mount against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.

JPS:

and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

WBS:

And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it on every side.

WEB:

and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.

YLT:

and hast placed against it a siege, and builded against it a fortification, and poured out against it a mount, and placed against it camps, yea, set thou against it battering-rams round about.

Ezekiel 4:2 Cross References

XREF:

Jeremiah 6:6 For thus says the LORD of hosts, "Cut down her trees And cast up a siege against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished, In whose midst there is only oppression.

Ezekiel 21:22 "Into his right hand came the divination, 'Jerusalem,' to set battering rams, to open the mouth for slaughter, to lift up the voice with a battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

4:2 Lay siege - Draw the figure of a siege about the city. Build - Raise a tower and bulwarks.

MHC:

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.

CONC:

Attack Battering Battering-rams Build Builded Building Camp Camps Cast Earthwork Engines Erect Fort Fortification Forts Hast Lay Making Mound Mount Pitch Placed Places Placing Plant Poured Raise Ramp Rams Round Shutting Siege Siegeworks Smashing Strong Tents Wall Walls Works Yea

Attack Battering Build Building Camp Camps Cast Earthwork Erect Fort Forts High Lay Making Mound Mount Pitch Places Plant Raise Ramp Rams Round Shutting Side Siege Smashing Strong Tents Wall

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