Ezekiel 24
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Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.
And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:

utter

Ezekiel 17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;

Ezekiel 19:2 And say, What is your mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, …

Ezekiel 20:49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Does he not speak parables?

Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

Micah 2:4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with …

Mark 12:12 And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they …

Luke 8:10 And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom …

the rebellious

Ezekiel 2:3,6,8 And he said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, …

Ezekiel 3:9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: fear them …

Ezekiel 12:2,25 Son of man, you dwell in the middle of a rebellious house, which …

Ezekiel 17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know you not what these things mean? …

Isaiah 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, …

Isaiah 30:1,9 Woe to the rebellious children, said the LORD, that take counsel, …

Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned …

Acts 7:51 You stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always …

Set

Ezekiel 24:6 Why thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose …

Ezekiel 11:3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the …

Jeremiah 50:13,14 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it …

Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

Woe

Ezekiel 24:9 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will …

Ezekiel 11:6,7 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled …

Ezekiel 22:2,6-9,12,27 Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? …

Ezekiel 23:37-45 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and …

2 Kings 21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled …

2 Kings 24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem …

Micah 7:2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright …

Nahum 3:1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey …

Matthew 23:35 That on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth…

Revelation 11:7,8 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that …

Revelation 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with …

Revelation 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of …

to the pot

Ezekiel 24:11-13 Then set it empty on the coals thereof, that the brass of it may …

Jeremiah 6:29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder …

bring

Ezekiel 9:5,6 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go you after him through …

Ezekiel 11:7-9,11 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Your slain whom you have laid in …

Joshua 10:22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those …

let no

Joshua 7:16-18 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their …

1 Samuel 14:40-42 Then said he to all Israel, Be you on one side, and I and Jonathan …

2 Samuel 8:2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down …

Joel 3:3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an …

Obadiah 1:11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that the …

Jonah 1:7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, …

Nahum 3:10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children …

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.

set it

Jeremiah 21:10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, …

Jeremiah 32:29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set …

Jeremiah 37:10 For though you had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight …

Jeremiah 38:18 But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then …

Jeremiah 39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the …

Jeremiah 52:13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the …

that the filthiness

Ezekiel 20:38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress …

Ezekiel 22:15 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and disperse you in the …

Ezekiel 23:26,27,47,48 They shall also strip you out of your clothes, and take away your fair jewels…

Ezekiel 36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: …

Isaiah 1:25 And I will turn my hand on you, and purely purge away your dross, …

Isaiah 4:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion…

Isaiah 27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this …

Micah 5:11-14 And I will cut off the cities of your land, and throw down all your …

Zechariah 13:1,2,8,9 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David …

Malachi 4:1 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the …

Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, …

1 Corinthians 3:12,13 Now if any man build on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, …

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.

She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.

wearied

Isaiah 47:13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, …

Isaiah 57:9,10 And you went to the king with ointment, and did increase your perfumes, …

Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the …

Jeremiah 9:5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak …

Jeremiah 10:14,15 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded …

Jeremiah 51:58 Thus said the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be …

Hosea 12:1 Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily …

Habakkuk 2:13,18,19 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor …

her great

Ezekiel 24:6,13 Why thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose …

Genesis 6:5-7 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth…

Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet smell; and the LORD said in his heart, …

Isaiah 1:5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: …

Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, are not your eyes on the truth? you have stricken them, but …

Jeremiah 44:16,17 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, …

Daniel 9:13,14 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come on us: …

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.

In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

thy filthiness

Ezekiel 24:11 Then set it empty on the coals thereof, that the brass of it may …

Ezekiel 23:36-48 The LORD said moreover to me; Son of man, will you judge Aholah and …

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves …

because

Ezekiel 22:24 Son of man, say to her, You are the land that is not cleansed, nor …

2 Chronicles 36:14-16 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed …

Isaiah 5:4-6 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done …

Isaiah 9:13-17 For the people turns not to him that smites them, neither do they …

Jeremiah 6:28-30 They are all grievous rebels, walking with slanders: they are brass …

Jeremiah 25:3-7 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, …

Jeremiah 31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised …

Hosea 7:1,9-16 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was …

Amos 4:6-12 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, …

Zephaniah 3:2,7 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted …

Matthew 23:37,38 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them …

Luke 13:7-9 Then said he to the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three …

Revelation 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, …

till I

Ezekiel 5:13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to …

Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither …

Ezekiel 16:42 So will I make my fury toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall …

Romans 2:8,9 But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but …

I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.

the Lord

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that …

1 Samuel 15:29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is …

Psalm 33:9 For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not …

Jeremiah 23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and …

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

neither will I spare

Ezekiel 5:11 Why, as I live, said the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled …

Ezekiel 7:4,9 And my eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will …

Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither …

Ezekiel 9:10 And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, …

Jeremiah 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the …

according to thy ways

Ezekiel 16:43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have …

Ezekiel 18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according …

Ezekiel 22:31 Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed …

Ezekiel 23:24,29 And they shall come against you with chariots, wagons, and wheels, …

Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his …

Jeremiah 4:18 Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this …

Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his …

Romans 2:5,6 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself …

Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

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Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.

Forbear to cry. [heb] Be silent

Psalm 37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because …

Psalm 39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.

Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, …

Amos 8:3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, said the …

Habakkuk 2:20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

make

Jeremiah 16:4-7 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither …

bind

Ezekiel 24:23 And your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet: …

Leviticus 10:6 And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, …

Leviticus 21:10 And he that is the high priest among his brothers, on whose head …

put

2 Samuel 15:30 And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went …

cover

Ezekiel 24:22 And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor …

Leviticus 13:45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and …

Micah 3:7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, …

lips [heb] upper lip, and so ver.

Hosea 9:4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they …

the bread of men. Lechem anoshim, not, `the bread of mourners,' as some render, but ` the bread of other men,' i.e. such as was commonly sent to mourners on such occasions by their friends.

Jeremiah 16:7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort …

So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?
Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

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Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

I will

Ezekiel 7:20-22 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty…

Ezekiel 9:7 And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the …

Psalm 74:7 They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting …

Psalm 79:1 O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; your holy temple …

Isaiah 65:11 But you are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, …

Jeremiah 7:14 Therefore will I do to this house, which is called by my name, wherein …

Lamentations 1:10 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: …

Lamentations 2:6,7 And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of …

Daniel 11:31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary …

Acts 6:13,14 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceases not to speak …

the excellency

Psalm 96:6 Honor and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

Psalm 105:4 Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face ever more.

Psalm 132:8 Arise, O LORD, into your rest; you, and the ark of your strength.

the desire

Ezekiel 24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes …

Psalm 27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that …

Psalm 84:1 How amiable are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

that which your soul pitieth [heb] the pity of your soul
your sons

Ezekiel 23:25,47 And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously …

Jeremiah 6:11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding …

Jeremiah 9:21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, …

Jeremiah 16:3,4 For thus said the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters …

And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?
In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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