Ezekiel 24:3-5 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 24:1-14

We have here, I. The notice God gives to Ezekiel in Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar's laying siege to Jerusalem, just at the time when he was doing it (Ezek. 24:2): ?Son of man, take notice, the king of Babylon, who is now abroad with his army, thou knowest not where, set himself against Jerusalem this same day.? It was many miles, it was many days? journey, from Jerusalem to Babylon. Perhaps the last intelligence they had from the army was that the design was upon Rabbath of the children of Ammon... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 24:3

And utter a parable to the rebellious house ,.... The people of the Jews so called, not so much on account of their rebellion against the king of Babylon, which caused him to come against them, as on account of their rebellion against God, and the breach of his laws; see Ezekiel 2:3 . The prophet is bid to represent to them, in a figurative and emblematic way, the miseries that were coming upon them for their wickedness, namely, under the parable of a boiling pot: and say unto them,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 24:4

Gather the pieces thereof into it ,.... fire being made, and the pot set on, and water poured into it, the next thing is, to put in the pieces that are to be boiled; and these are to be gathered; meaning the people of the land, that were to be gathered from the several parts of it, for their security, as they thought; but the event proved it was for their ruin: even every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder ; the princes and gentry, the great and the mighty, the rich and wealthy of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 24:5

Take the choice of the flock ,.... King, princes, nobles, magistrates, priests and rulers of the people: and burn also the bones under it : or, "put a pile of bones under it" F21 דור העצמים תחתיה "pyram ossium sub ipsa", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Starckius. דור "rogus, strues materiae combustibililis rotunda", Stockius, p. 223. ; the bones of them that are slain in it; denoting the great slaughter of them; or the bones of the innocent that had been murdered in it;... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 24:3

Set on a pot - The pot was Jerusalem; the flesh, the inhabitants in general; every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, King Zedekiah and his family; the bones, the soldiers; and the setting on the pot, the commencement of the siege. The prophet was then in Mesopotamia; and he was told particularly to mark the day, etc., that it might be seen how precisely the spirit of prophecy had shown the very day in which the siege took place. Under the same image of a boiling pot, Jeremiah had... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 24:5

Make it boil well - Let it boil over, that its own scum may augment the fire, that the bones - the soldiers, may be seethed therein. Let its contentions, divided counsels, and disunion be the means of increasing its miseries, רתחיה רתח rattach rethacheyha , let it bubble its bubbling; something like that of the poet: - "Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble: Fire burn, and cauldron bubble." Very like the noise made by ebullition, when a pot of thick broth, "sleek and slab," is set over... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 24:1-5

The seething-pot. I. THE VESSEL . Jerusalem is compared to a seething-pot. The character of the city had certain points of resemblance. 1. Unity . All the parts are thrown into one vessel. There was a common life in the one city. All classes shared a common fortune. They who are united in sin will be united in doom. 2. Vain protection . The heat of the fire came through the vessel. The wails of Jerusalem did not save the doomed city. No earthly shelter will protect... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 24:1-14

The consuming cauldron. The threatened judgment has at last descended upon the guilty city; and Ezekiel, far away in the land of the Captivity, sees in vision, and declares to his fellow-captives by a parable, the siege of Jerusalem now actually taking place. As in so many parts of his prophecies, Ezekiel reveals by symbol that which he has to communicate. Opinions differ as to whether the cauldron was actually filled with the joints of animals and was actually heated by a fire. But the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 24:1-14

The interior mechanism of war. The prophet is commissioned to employ another homely metaphor. The patience and ingenuity of God's love are inexhaustible. The homeliest imagery is employed with a view to vivid and abiding impression. Here it is shown that behind all the machinery and circumstance of war, a hand Divine directs and overrules. A moral force resides within the material and human agency. I. THE NECESSITY FOR THE SCOURGE . The necessity arose from the excessive... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 24:1-14

The parable of the cauldron; or, the judgment upon Jerusalem. "Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me," etc. The interpretation of the chief features of this parable is not difficult. "The cauldron is Jerusalem. The flesh and the bones that are put therein are the Jews, the ordinary inhabitants of the city and the fugitives from the country. The fire is the fire of war. Water is poured into the cauldron, because in the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 24:1-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 24:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 24:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 24:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 24:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 24:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 24:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 24:1-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 24:1-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 24:1-14

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