Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 24:11
The filthiness — A type of the unreformed sinfulness of the city. Molten — That their wickedness may be taken away with their persons, and city.
The filthiness — A type of the unreformed sinfulness of the city. Molten — That their wickedness may be taken away with their persons, and city.
Ezekiel 24:1. The exact date is given by the prophet. It was the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year. What happened also on that date we find recorded in 2 Kings 25:1: “And it came to pass...
EZEKIEL 24. THE LAST MESSAGE BEFORE THE FALL OF THE CITY. Ezekiel 24:1. The Rusty Caldron. We now reach the last message delivered by Ezekiel before the fall of the city; and, curiously enough, it was...
BRASS. copper. HOT. scorched....
The rusted caldron set on the fire (1) Ezekiel 24:1. A caldron is to be set on the fire, filled with water, pieces of flesh cast into it and fuel piled under it that it may boil furiously. The caldro...
Rising anew into tones of threatening the divine voice commands fuel to be heaped under the caldron, and to set it empty upon the coals, that its brass may glow in the fire and its rust be consumed....
_scum of it_ RUST. When the contents of the caldron have BEEN seethed and emptied out of it the siege and dispersion the caldron itself shall be set empty upon the coals that its filth and rust may be...
III. A SIGNIFICANT DATE 24:1-27 Chapter 24 begins with an important chronological note. According to verse one Nebuchadnezzar began his attack against Jerusalem in the ninth year (of Zedekiah), the te...
A. The Parable of the Cooking Pot 24:1-14 TRANSLATION (1) And the word of the LORD came unto me in the ninth year, the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, saying, (2) Son of man, write for yours...
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 EMPTY UPON TH...
24:11 rust (b-32) Or 'scum.' brass (d-15) Or 'copper.'...
THE ALLEGORY OF THE BOILING CALDRON. EZEKIEL'S BEREAVEMENT AND SIGNIFICANT SILENCE This prophecy is dated on the day on which the siege of Jerusalem began. Ezekiel is commanded by God to note the date...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 24 * The punishment of Judah would happen soon. The *Lord c...
(6-14) These verses contain the application of the parable in two distinct parts (Ezekiel 24:6), but in such wise that the literal and the figurative continually run together. A new feature, that of t...
SET IT EMPTY UPON THE COALS. — Keeping up the strong figure of the parable, after all the inhabitants have passed under judgment the city itself is to be purged by fire. It is unnecessary here to thin...
וְ הַעֲמִידֶ֥הָ עַל ־גֶּחָלֶ֖יהָ רֵקָ֑ה לְמַ֨עַן...
FINAL ORACLES AGAINST JERUSALEM Ezekiel 22:1; Ezekiel 24:1 THE close of the first period of Ezekiel's work was marked by two dramatic incidents, which made the day memorable both in the private life...
The final prophecy in this division described the coming destruction of the city. This was first done under the parable of a cauldron set on a fire, filled with water, and made to boil. The prophet ap...
The parable of a boiling pot, with the choice pieces boiled over the fire, and then left to burn, became a very striking representation of the fiery indignation of the Lord against Jerusalem. Her scum...
In chapter 24 definitive judgment is pronounced against Jerusalem, who was not even ashamed of her sins. The day that Nebuchadnezzar lays siege to Jerusalem, the wife of the prophet dies; and, althoug...
THEN SET IT EMPTY UPON THE COALS THEREOF,.... The city, when emptied of its inhabitants and substance, like a pot that is boiled over, and all in it boiled away, or taken out; burn it with fire, as th...
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. Ver. 11. _That the...
_Thus saith the Lord_, &c. In this and the two following verses is still more fully explained the meaning of the symbol of the boiling pot, and what the fire is that made it boil. By _making the pile...
Then set it empty upon the coals thereof that the brass of it may be hot and may burn, glowing in white heat, AND THAT THE FILTHINESS OF IT, the remnants of the broth clinging to its sides, MAY BE MOL...
VISION OF THE BOILING CALDRON...
1-14 The pot on the fire represented Jerusalem besieged by the Chaldeans: all orders and ranks were within the walls, prepared as a prey for the enemy. They ought to have put away their transgression...
SET IT, the hieroglyphic pot, _empty_; the water, flesh, bones, all consumed, i.e. the citizens all wasted with sword, famine, or pestilence, the city left as an empty, overboiled pot. UPON THE COALS...
Ezekiel 24:11 set H5975 (H8687) empty H7386 coals H1513 hot H3179 (H8799) bronze H5178 burn H2787 ...
‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Woe to the blood-filled city. I will also make the pile great. Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make the broth thick and let the bon...
CONTENTS: Parable of the boiling pot. Ezekiel again made a sign to Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, King of Babylon. CONCLUSION: There is a day coming when it will be said, «He that is filthy, let...
Ezekiel 24:1. _In the ninth year,_ from Jehoiachin's captivity; or the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign. 2 Kings 25:1; Jeremiah 52:4. Jehoiachin, who is the same with Jeconiah, reigned one year before h...
_Set on a pot._ THE BOILING CAULDRON: THE DOINGS AND DOOM OF A WICKED CITY I. The sins of any city are an offence to God. 1. Seen by Him. The whole city in its greed for gain, its intemperance, its...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 24:1 The two losses recounted here almost certainly belong together, and they come at a turning point in Ezekiel’s prophetic career. The first loss (vv. Ezekiel 24:1) is that o
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 24:10 The extent of the corruption and rot demands that both the pot and its contents be completely consumed (v. Ezekiel 24:11;...
(Ezekiel 24:3.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet illustrates the destruction of Jerusalem by the allegory of a cauldron which he was to set on the fire, and having put water into it, to boil therein choi...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 24:1 IN THE NINTH YEAR. We pass from the date of Ezekiel 20:1 to B.C. 590, and the very day is identified with that on which the army of Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem ...
Now again, chapter 24, In the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month (Ezekiel 24:1), Now notice this. He's in Babylon and on this, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in th...
1 Corinthians 3:12; 1 Corinthians 3:13; Ezekiel 20:38; Ezekiel 22:15;...