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Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 24:5

Take the choice; pick out the very best in the flock, that is, the greatest, richest, most powerful for authority and interest in the nation and city. Burn; or, heap together in order to burn, to make a fire with. The bones; not of the pieces to be boiled, but the bones of the many innocents murdered in Jerusalem and in the land; for their blood crieth for vengeance, and their bones, scattered on the face of the earth, will both make and maintain this fire. Make it boil well; let the fire be so... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 24:3-14

(Ezekiel 24:3-14.)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet illustrates the destruction of Jerusalem by the allegory of a cauldron which he was to set on the fire, and having put water into it, to boil therein choice pieces of meat (Ezekiel 24:3-5). Then he follows with an application of the allegory to Jerusalem, as describing her irrevocable doom.Ezekiel 24:3. “Utter a parable.” “The contents of these verses are called a proverb or parable. It follows from this that the ensuing act which the prophet is... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 24:1-27

Chapter 24Now again, chapter 24,In the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month ( Ezekiel 24:1 ),Now notice this. He's in Babylon and on this, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month,the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day ( Ezekiel 24:1-2 ):Write this day down, this date. It's the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month. Write this date down.For on this... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 24:1-27

Ezekiel 24:1 . In the ninth year, from Jehoiachin’s captivity; or the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. 2 Kings 25:1-2. Jeremiah 52:4. Jehoiachin, who is the same with Jeconiah, reigned one year before his nephew Zedekiah. 2 Chronicles 36:10. Jeremiah having noticed the day and the year of the ruin of the city and temple of Jerusalem as a historical fact, and Ezekiel the same event as a matter of prophecy, we have proof that the fall of the jewish state was by the special designation of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezekiel 24:1-14

Ezekiel 24:1-14Set on a pot. The boiling cauldron: the doings and doom of a wicked cityI. The sins of any city are an offence to God.1. Seen by Him. The whole city in its greed for gain, its intemperance, its hollowness, its lust.2. Seen by Him with anger. He is a Moral Governor, and has the moral nature that breaks into the sunlight of a smile on goodness, and gathers into the thunder cloud of a frown upon wickedness.II. The sins of any city will ensure its doom.1. History illustrates this.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 24:5

Eze 24:5 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. Ver. 5. Take the choice of the flock. ] The king and his peers. And burn also the bones. ] The dry bones, the common people, for these will burn like wood. And let him seethe the bones. ] The choice bones. Eze 24:4 read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ezekiel 24:5

the choice: Ezekiel 20:47, Ezekiel 34:16, Ezekiel 34:17, Ezekiel 34:20, Jeremiah 39:6, Jeremiah 52:10, Jeremiah 52:24-Daniel :, Revelation 19:20 burn: or, heap, Ezekiel 24:9, Ezekiel 24:10 read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ezekiel 24:5

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.The bones — Not of the pieces to be boiled, but of the many innocents murdered in Jerusalem; for their blood crieth for vengeance, and their bones scattered on the face of the earth, will both make and maintain this fire. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 24:1-14

PARABLE OF THE RUSTED POT, 1-14. Jeremiah had called Jerusalem a “seething pot,” and counseled submission to Babylon. But the Egyptian party had retorted that even if the city were a caldron it was a safer place than the Babylonian fires outside. Ezekiel had examined this reply (Ezekiel 11:3-11), declaring that the prophecy concerning Judah’s captivity must be fulfilled, and therefore the iron walls could protect none but the dead. Three years passed, and on the very day (Ezekiel 24:1-2;... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 24:5

5. Burn also the bones R.V., “pile also the bones under it.” Great critics, like Smend and Cornill, read “wood” instead of “bones,” but this is opposed to all the versions. Bones were sometimes used as fuel in case of extremity. The prophet has pictured the land as being desolated by fire and covered with the bones of the slain. Did he mean to suggest that the bones of their own kinsmen slain in the defense of the city should be fuel which would make the Jerusalem pot boil? At any rate the... read more

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