Ezekiel 24:5

Take 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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In The King James Version

Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.

In Context

4And 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.

6For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 39:6Then the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes in Riblah: and the king of Babylon put to death all the great men of Judah.

Jeremiah 52:24And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers;

Ezekiel 24:9For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood! and I will make great the burning mass.

Ezekiel 34:20For this reason the Lord has said to them, Truly, I, even I, will be judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep.

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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