Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 4:9

9 ¶ Take thou also unto thee, wheat, and barly, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and [illegible: 1 letter]itches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lye upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

Provide thee Corn enough: for a grievous Famine will accompany the Seige.

Whereas all sorts of grain are to be provided, it assures us all would be little enough, Wheat and Barly would not outlast the Seige, courser and meaner must be provided though less fit for Bread.

Mix the worst with the best to lengthen out the best, that the mixture may render them useful in such necessity.

He mentions only 390, the 40 days either concurre with them, or else because they referre to the time after the City was taken, whereby such as survived and got some liberty to go abroad found food for themselves, if they escapt the Sword of the Enemy and were got into the Countrey, they wanted not Bread.

Marginal references: Or, [illegible: 1 word].