Discovery BoxEzekiel 4:2 
Context4:2 Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp 1 against it! Post soldiers outside it 2 and station battering rams around it.
Ezekiel 11:3
Context11:3 They say, 3 ‘The time is not near to build houses; 4 the city 5 is a cooking pot 6 and we are the meat in it.’
1 tn Or “a barricade.”
2 tn Heb “set camps against it.”
3 tn The Hebrew verb may mean “think” in this context. This content of what they say (or think) represents their point of view.
4 sn The expression build houses may mean “establish families” (Deut 25:9; Ruth 4:11; Prov 24:27).
5 tn Heb “she” or “it”; the feminine pronoun refers here to Jerusalem.
6 sn Jerusalem is also compared to a pot in Ezek 24:3-8. The siege of the city is pictured as heating up the pot.
