Ezekiel 24:10

So, heap on the wood and light the fire! Cook the meat well, and mix some spices with it; cook it until the bones are charred.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

In Context

9Therefore, this is what I, Yahweh the Lord say: ‘Terrible things will happen to that city that is full of murderers [MTY]! It will be as though I also will pile high the wood in the fire.

11Then set the empty pot on the coals of the fire until the pot becomes very hot and the copper glows, with the result that the impurities and the rust will be burned up.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 17:3So, I will allow your enemies to capture Zion, your holy hill, and all your wealth and your ◄treasures/valuable things►, and even the shrines on all those hills, because of the sins that you people have committed throughout your land.

Lamentations 1:10Our enemies have taken away all our treasures, all the valuable things that we owned. We have seen soldiers from other nations, men who do not worship Yahweh, enter our sacred temple, the place where foreigners/non-Israelis were ◄forbidden/not allowed► to enter.

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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