Ezekiel 4:1 meaning and explanation

“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 4:1, Berean Standard Bible

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God tells Ezekiel, a priest in exile in Babylon, to act out Jerusalem's coming siege using a brick, likely a clay tablet or building block. Drawing the city on it turns an ordinary object into a visible model of the doomed capital, and the following verses add siege works around it.

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