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Ezekiel 4:2
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Ezekiel 4:2
2And 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.
2‖And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it: set the campe also against it, and set battering rammes against it round about.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 4:2
Place or set down; also rested or remained in a recumbent position, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The military surrounding and pressing of a city or fortified place in order to take it.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To construct, rest or depend on as a foundation.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A fortification or enclosed siege work built against a city.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To throw, send forth, place, reckon, or discard, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A mountain or hill; as a verb, to ascend or rise.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Beating; dashing against; bruising or demolishing by beating.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Around, concerning, near, or engaged in; on every side or approximately, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 2
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Open the full verse study22At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
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Open the full verse study6¶ For thus hath the Lord of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
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Open the full verse study1IN the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
2And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
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Open the full verse study4¶ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
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Open the full verse study42Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
43For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
44And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
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