Ezekiel 24:5 - Exposition

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).