Ezekiel 24:5 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 24:5

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 24:5

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 24:5

Burn also the bones under it; better , with the Vulgate and Revised Version, pile the bones . The bones of animals were often used as fuel. Currey quotes an interesting passage from Livingstone's 'Last Journal,' 1. p. 347, narrating how, when the supply of ordinary fuel failed, he made his steamer work with the bones of elephants. See a like practice among the Scythians (Herod; 4.61). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 24:5

Burn - Rather, as in margin; the bones would serve for fuel. 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

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

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

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 24:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 24:5

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

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