Ezekiel 24:4

And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

In Context

3And make a comparison for this uncontrolled people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Put on the cooking-pot, put it on the fire and put water in it:

5Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 9:24And the cook took up the leg with the fat tail on it, and put it before Saul. And Samuel said, This is the part which has been kept for you: take it as your part of the feast; because it has been kept for you till the right time came and till the guests were present. So that day Saul took food with Samuel.

Micah 3:2You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 24:2-15

The Parable of the Boiling Pot; The Explanation of the Parable. ( b. c. 590.) 1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day. 3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God ; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it: 4 Gather the pieces thereof into it,… Read the whole commentary →

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