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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 24:4

The pieces thereof - Or, that belong to it; i. e., the pieces which are designed for the caldron, and belong to it as the inhabitants belong to the city. The choice pieces are the choice members of the community Ezekiel 11:3. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 24:3-5

Ezekiel 24:3-5. Utter a parable unto the rebellious house Though the house of Judah has as yet paid no due regard to what thou and the rest of the prophets have uttered or done; nevertheless, still further represent to them the destruction coming upon them by a symbolical action. Set on a pot, &c. By the pot was signified Jerusalem, (under which figure it is represented, both by this prophet, Ezekiel 11:3, and by Jeremiah, Jeremiah 1:13.) and by the pieces gathered into it, the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 24:1-14

The cooking pot (24:1-14)On the day Babylon began its siege of Jerusalem, Ezekiel spoke another message (24:1-2; see 2 Kings 25:1). Previously the Jerusalemites had boasted that the walls of the city would protect them from the Babylonian armies as a cooking pot protects the meat within from the fire (see 11:3). Ezekiel now uses the illustration of the cooking pot in an entirely opposite sense. The people of Jerusalem (the meat in the pot) are going to be ‘cooked alive’ by the ‘fire’ of the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 24:3

the Lord GOD. Hebrew. Adonai Jehovah . See note on Ezekiel 2:4 . pot : or, caldron, using the words of the scoffers in Ezekiel 11:3 , and compare Jeremiah 1:13 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 24:3

Ezekiel 24:3. Set on a pot— The pot signifies Jerusalem, the flesh and pieces the citizens, and the fire and water the calamities which they were to suffer. When the subject required secrecy, the apologue was gradually changed by faint and far-fetched allusions into a parable, on set purpose to throw obscurity over the information. We find innumerable instances of this mode of speech in scripture, and this of the pot was one. In this manner was the parable employed both among the Orientals and... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 24:4

Ezekiel 24:4. Fill it with the choice bones— And every choice part which cleaveth to the bones. Houbigant. The bones, says Calmet, signify the princes or chief citizens, and the flesh the common people. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 24:3

3. pot—caldron. Alluding to the self-confident proverb used among the people, :- (see on Ezekiel 24:1), "This city is the caldron and we be the flesh"; your proverb shall prove awfully true, but in a different sense from what you intend. So far from the city proving an iron, caldron-like defense from the fire, it shall be as a caldron set on the fire, and the people as so many pieces of meat subjected to boiling heat. See Jeremiah 1:13. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 24:4

4. pieces thereof—those which properly belong to it, as its own. every good piece . . . choice bones—that is, the most distinguished of the people. The "choice bones" in the pot have flesh adhering to them. The bones under the pot ( :-) are those having no flesh and used as fuel, answering to the poorest who suffer first, and are put out of pain sooner than the rich who endure what answers to the slower process of boiling. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 24:1-3

The background to the parable 24:1-3aThe Lord instructed Ezekiel to note permanently the day this revelation came to him because it was the very day that Nebuchadnezzar began his siege of Jerusalem. This day fell in January (cf. 2 Kings 25:1; Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 52:4). Block dated it as January 5, 587 B.C., [Note: Block, The Book . . ., p. 774.] but most scholars follow Parker and Duberstein and date it as January 15, 586 B.C. [Note: Parker and Dubberstein, p. 28; Cooper, p. 235; Taylor, p.... read more