Ezekiel 24:1-12
ninth year <08141 08671> [A.M. 3414. B.C. 590. the ninth year.]
This was the ninth year of Zedekiah, about Thursday, January 30, A.M. 3414, the very day in which Nebuchadnezzar began the siege of Jerusalem.
write <03789> [write.]
very ............. very <06106> [of this.]
Recite <04911> [utter.]
rebellious <04805> [the rebellious.]
Set on .... set ... on <08239> [Set.]
choice <04005> [the choice.]
heap up <01754> [burn. or, heap.]
Woe <0188> [Woe.]
pot <05518> [to the pot.]
removed <03318> [bring.]
lot <01486> [let no.]
blood <01818> [her blood.]
pour <08210> [she poured.]
anger <02534> [it might.]
placed <05414> [I have set.]
Woe <0188> [Woe.]
pile <04071> [I will.]
spices <07543> [spice.]
Set ... empty <05975 07386> [set it.]
uncleanness <02932> [that the filthiness.]
The pot was Jerusalem; the flesh, the inhabitants in general: every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, Zedekiah, his family, and princes; the bones, the soldiers; the fire and water, the calamities they were to suffer; and the setting on of the pot, the commencement of the siege.
tried ... patience <03811> [wearied.]
thick <07227> [her great.]
rot ......... rot <02457> [her scum.]
The pot being polluted with the scum, must be heated, melted, and even burned with fire till purified; that is, Jerusalem shall be entirely levelled with the ground, as nothing short of this will purify it from the relics of its idolatrous abominations.
