Ezekiel 24:4
New International Version
Put into it the pieces of meat, all the choice pieces—the leg and the shoulder. Fill it with the best of these bones;

New Living Translation
Fill it with choice pieces of meat— the rump and the shoulder and all the most tender cuts.

English Standard Version
put in it the pieces of meat, all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.

Berean Standard Bible
Put in the pieces of meat, every good piece—thigh and shoulder—fill it with choice bones.

King James Bible
Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

New King James Version
Gather pieces of meat in it, Every good piece, The thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with choice cuts;

New American Standard Bible
Put in it the pieces of meat, Every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; Fill it with choice bones.

NASB 1995
Put in it the pieces, Every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; Fill it with choice bones.

NASB 1977
Put in it the pieces, Every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; Fill it with choice bones.

Legacy Standard Bible
Put in it the pieces, Every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; Fill it with choice bones.

Amplified Bible
Put in it the pieces [of meat], Every good piece (the people of Jerusalem), the thigh and the shoulder; Fill it with choice bones.

Christian Standard Bible
Place the pieces of meat in it, every good piece — thigh and shoulder. Fill it with choice bones.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Place the pieces of meat in it, every good piece— thigh and shoulder. Fill it with choice bones.

American Standard Version
gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And cast into it pieces that are good and fat, the shoulder of the choicest of sheep that has its bone taken out

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and put the pieces into it, every prime piece, the leg and shoulder taken off from the bones,

Contemporary English Version
Throw in the legs and shoulders of your finest sheep and put in the juicy bones.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Heap together into if the pieces thereof, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, choice pieces and full of bones.

English Revised Version
gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Cut the meat into pieces, all the best pieces, the thigh and shoulder. Fill the pot with the meatiest bones

Good News Translation
Put in the best pieces of meat--the shoulders and the legs--fill it with choice bony pieces too.

International Standard Version
Gather together the best pieces of meat on it— including the thighs and the shoulders— and fill it with the choicest bones.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Gather into it the pieces belonging to it, Even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; Fill it with the choice bones.

Literal Standard Version
To gather its pieces to it, every good piece, | Thigh and shoulder, to fill in the choice of the bones.

Majority Standard Bible
Put in the pieces of meat, every good piece—thigh and shoulder—fill it with choice bones.

New American Bible
Add to it pieces of meat, all choice pieces; With thigh and shoulder, with choice cuts fill it.

NET Bible
add the pieces of meat to it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.

New Revised Standard Version
put in it the pieces, all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.

New Heart English Bible
gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

Webster's Bible Translation
Gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

World English Bible
Gather its pieces into it, even every good piece: the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice bones.

Young's Literal Translation
To gather its pieces unto it, every good piece, Thigh and shoulder, the choice of the bones to fill in.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Parable of the Cooking Pot
3Now speak a parable to this rebellious house and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Put the pot on the fire; put it on and pour in the water. 4Put in the pieces of meat, every good piece— thigh and shoulder— fill it with choice bones. 5Take the choicest of the flock and pile the fuel beneath it. Bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.’…

Cross References
Micah 3:2
You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.

Micah 3:3
You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron."


Treasury of Scripture

Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

Ezekiel 22:18-22
Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver…

Micah 3:2,3
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; …

Matthew 7:2
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

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Ezekiel 24
1. Under the parable of a boiling pot
6. is shown the irrevocable destruction of Jerusalem
15. By the sign of Ezekiel not mourning for the death of his wife
19. is shown the calamity of the Jews to be beyond all sorrow














(4) The pieces thereof.--Literally, its pieces, the pieces which pertain to the cauldron, the Jews, whose centre and capital is Jerusalem. This was the natural effect of Nebuchadnezzar's campaign; the people from every side sought refuge in the city. (Comp. Jeremiah 35:11.) The mention of the "good piece," "the choice bones," and "the choice of the flock" (Ezekiel 24:5), is not for the purpose of designating any particular class, but only to emphasise that all, even the best, are to be included.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Put in
אֱסֹ֤ף (’ĕ·sōp̄)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 622: To gather for, any purpose, to receive, take away, remove

the pieces
נְתָחֶ֙יהָ֙ (nə·ṯā·ḥe·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5409: A piece (of a divided carcass)

of meat,
אֵלֶ֔יהָ (’ê·le·hā)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

every
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

good
ט֖וֹב (ṭō·wḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

piece—
נֵ֥תַח (nê·ṯaḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5409: A piece (of a divided carcass)

thigh
יָרֵ֣ךְ (yā·rêḵ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3409: Thigh,loin, flank, side

and shoulder—
וְכָתֵ֑ף (wə·ḵā·ṯêp̄)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3802: The shoulder, side-piece, lateral projection of anything

fill
מַלֵּֽא׃ (mal·lê)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of

it with choice
מִבְחַ֥ר (miḇ·ḥar)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4005: Choicest, best

bones.
עֲצָמִ֖ים (‘ă·ṣā·mîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame


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