Ezekiel 4:6 (KJV)
And when thou hast accomplished them lie againon thy right sideand thou shalt bearthe iniquityof the houseof Judah forty daysI have appointedthee each dayfor a year
Cross-references
each day for a year. Heb. a day for a year, a day for ayear. Nu 14:34 Da 9:24-26 Da 12:11 Da 12:12 Re 9:15 Re 11:2 Re 11:3 Re 12:14 Re 13:5
forty days.This represented the forty years during which gross idolatry prevailed in Judah, from the reformation of Josiah, B.C. 624, to the same final desolation of the land. Some think that the period of 390 days also predicts the duration of the siege of the Babylonians, (ver. 9,) deducting from it five months and twenty-nine days, when the besiegers went to meet the Egyptians (2 Ki 25:1-4; Jer 37:5;) and that forty days may have been employed in desolating the temple and city. "Beginning from 2 Ki 23:3, 23. Ending Jer 52:30."
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