Ezekiel 24:5

Take the choice of the flock, and make also a fire for the bones under it: cause it to seethe well, that even the bones therein may be fully boiled through.

Leeser Tanakh

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

4Gather the proper pieces into it, every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it up with the choice bones.

6Therefore thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Woe to the city of blood-guiltiness, to the pot the scum of which is yet in it, and the scum of which is not gone out of it! one of its pieces after the other take out from it: no lot is cast for it.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 39:6And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes; also all the nobles of Judah did the king of Babylon slaughter.

Jeremiah 52:24And the captain of the guard took Serayah the chief priest, and Zephanyah the priest second in rank, and the three door-keepers;

Ezekiel 24:9Therefore thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Woe to the city of blood-guiltiness! I also will myself build up a large burning pile,

Ezekiel 34:20Therefore thus hath said the Lord Eternal unto them, Behold, I am here, and I will judge between the fat lamb and the lean lamb.

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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