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
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E.W. Bullinger
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
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
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
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 24:1-14
1. The parable of the cooking pot 24:1-14This parable represented the siege of Jerusalem, which began on the day that Ezekiel told this story. read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 24:3-5
The parable itself 24:3b-5In this parable, the people were to put a bronze (Ezekiel 24:11) cooking pot (caldron, Heb. sir) on the fire and pour water into it. This large pot had two handles, a round base, and a large mouth. Then the people were to put various pieces of choice meat into the pot and were to build a strong fire under it so the water would boil and the meaty bones would cook. We might call Ezekiel 24:3-13 "the cooking pot song" since it is a poem similar to "the sword song"... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 24:1-27
The Allegory of the Boiling Caldron. Ezekiel’s Bereavement and Significant SilenceThis prophecy is dated on the day on which the siege of Jerusalem began. Ezekiel is commanded by God to note the date, and to speak to the exiles a final parable of the city’s coming fate. Jerusalem is a rusty pot filled with water and meat and set upon a fire. The meat is well boiled, and brought out piece by piece at random. The empty pot is then set back on the fire that the rust may be burned away. The rust... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ezekiel 24:3
(3) Utter a parable.—What follows (Ezekiel 24:3-14) was not a symbolical action, but was simply a parable spoken to the people, although the language is just that which would describe action.Set on a pot.—Rather, the cauldron, the word being the same as in Ezekiel 11:3, and preceded by the definite article referring to that passage. Urgency is indicated by the repetition of the command “set on.” The people in Ezekiel 11:3 had called their city the cauldron; so let it be, the Divine word now... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ezekiel 24:1-27
Ezekiel 24:15-16 The enunciation of laws or principles seems more especially to belong to Ezekiel, as the experience of personal evil and the sympathy with national sorrow belong more to the tender and womanly nature of Jeremiah. Nevertheless, Ezekiel was to be a priest in this sense also, as well as in that higher sense of beholding the glory of God and proclaiming His name. Suffering was not the destination of one prophet; it was the badge of all the tribe. F. D. Maurice. To love, is to know... read more
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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