Ezekiel 24:10

Pile on the logs and kindle the fire; cook the meat well and mix in the spices; let the bones be burned.

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KJV

Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

ASV

Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.

YLT

Make abundant the wood, Kindle the fire, consume the flesh, And make the compound, And let the bones be burnt.

DBT

Heap on the wood, kindle the fire, boil thoroughly the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

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Heap on wood, kindle the fire,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

Related commentary

(Chapter 24, Verse 1 onwards) Then in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 'Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

Jerome· Commentary on Ezekiel, 420patristic

Consume ... spice it well - i. e., dress the flesh, and make it froth and bubble, that the bones and the flesh may be all boiled up together.

Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical

And spice it well - To express this justice, that is acceptable to God and men. The bones - The greatest, strongest, and firmest of the Jews shall perish in this fiery indignation.

John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical

By the sign of Ezekiel's not mourning for the death of his wife is shown that the calamities coming upon Jerusalem were too great to be lamented, so great that they should sink down under them into a silent despair,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Jeremiah 20:5
I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.
Jeremiah 17:3
O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.
Lamentations 1:10
The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
2 Kings 21:13
I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.

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The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 17:3
O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.
leads to
- Jeremiah 15:13
  Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see…
leads to
- Psalms 35:21
  They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”
- Psalms 37:12
  The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
- Lamentations 3:46
  All our enemies open their mouths against us.
- Job 16:9–10
  His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
- Psalms 56:2
  My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.
Through
Lamentations 1:10
The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 23:3
  No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
- Jeremiah 51:51
  “We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”

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