take: Eze 5:1-17, Eze 12:3-16; 1Sa 15:27-28; 1Ki 11:30-31; Isa 20:2-4; Jer 13:1-14, Jer 18:2-12, Jer 19:1-15, Jer 25:15-38, Jer 27:2-22; Hos 1:2-9, Hos 3:1-5; Hos 12:10
a tile: לבנה [Strong's H3843], levainah generally denotes a brick, and Palladius informs us that the bricks in common use among the ancients were "two feet long, one foot broad, and four inches thick;" and on such a surface the whole siege might be easily pourtrayed. Perhaps, however, it may here denote a flat tile, like a Roman brick, which were commonly used for tablets, as we learn from Pliny, Hist. Nat. 1. vii. c. 57.