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Ezekiel chapter 4 verses 4 through 8

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.

For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment.

So long shall you bear the punishment of the House of Israel.

And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your

right side, and bear the punishment of the House of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year, and you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against the city.

And behold, I will place cords upon you

so that you cannot turn from one side to the other

till you have completed the days of your siege.

There's so much we could talk about in these verses, but the basic

picture is God is calling Ezekiel as a prophet to do two things.

One, to prophesy against the city so to speak

the words of God and to tell what God has said to him to the people and then second to demonstrate these words with

his life he's specifically talking about the punishment of the house of Israel, the punishment of the

House of Judah, basically God's judgment on Israel and Judah, and how he would take action,

specifically lying on his left side for 390 days, on his right side for 40 days,

representing the number of years associated with judgment punishment

toward the House of Israel and the House of Judah.

We don't know all the specifics of how this would play out like for all those 390 days on the left side and 40 days on the right side.

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