Ezekiel 24:1-7

1 In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
2 Mortal, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.
3 And utter an allegory to the rebellious house and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Set on the pot, set it on, pour in water also;
4 put in it the pieces, all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.
5 Take the choicest one of the flock, pile the logs under it; boil its pieces, seethe also its bones in it.
6 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, the pot whose rust is in it, whose rust has not gone out of it! Empty it piece by piece, making no choice at all.
7 For the blood she shed is inside it; she placed it on a bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground, to cover it with earth.

Footnotes 4

  • [a]. Compare verse 10: Heb [the bones]
  • [b]. Two Mss: Heb [its boilings]
  • [c]. Cn: Heb [its bones seethe]
  • [d]. Heb [piece, no lot has fallen on it]
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