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Ezekiel 4:6

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forty days: This represented the forty years during which gross idolatry prevailed in Judah, from the reformation of Josiah, bc 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 (Ezekiel 4:9), deducting from it five months and twenty-nine days, when the besiegers went to meet the Egyptians (2 Kings 25:1-4; Jeremiah 37:5); and that forty days may have been employed in desolating the temple and city. "Beginning from 2 Kings 23:3, 2 Kings 23:23. Ending Jeremiah 52:30."

each day for a year: Heb. a day for a year, a day for a year, Numbers 14:34; Daniel 9:24-26, Daniel 12:11-12; Revelation 9:15, Revelation 11:2-3, Revelation 12:14, Revelation 13:5

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