Ezekiel 4:4-6

The Siege of Jerusalem Symbolized

⁴ "Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment ₁ of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, _a you shall bear their punishment. ⁵ For I assign to you a number of days, _b 390 days, _c equal to the number of the years of their punishment. _a So long shall you bear _d the punishment of the house of Israel. ⁶ And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and _e bear _f the punishment of the house of Judah. _g Forty days I assign you, a day for each year.

1. Cross References
   Ezekiel 44:10
   But the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment.
   Ezekiel 44:12
   Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, declares the Lord God, and they shall bear their punishment.
   Leviticus 16:22
   The goat shall bear all their iniquities on itself to a remote area, and he shall let the goat go free in the wilderness.
   Isaiah 53:11 - 12
   Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
   
2. Cross References
   Ezekiel 4:9
   And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.
   
3. Cross References
   Numbers 14:34
   According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.
   
4. Cross References
   Ezekiel 4:4
   Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment.
   
5. Cross References
   Ezekiel 23:4
   Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
   Ezekiel 23:9 - 10
   Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.
   
6. Cross References
   Ezekiel 44:10
   But the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment.
   Ezekiel 44:12
   Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, declares the Lord God, and they shall bear their punishment.
   Leviticus 16:22
   The goat shall bear all their iniquities on itself to a remote area, and he shall let the goat go free in the wilderness.
   Isaiah 53:11 - 12
   Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
   
7. Cross References
   Ezekiel 23:11 - 12
   Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister.
   
8. Cross References
   Numbers 14:34
   According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.