Ezekiel 24 - Introduction

In Ezekiel 24, Ezekiel is commissioned to announce to his fellow-exiles that the destruction of Jerusalem, so long foretold, was now in course of execution, that the siege had actually begun. This he is to declare:

(1) by a parable - of the boiling pot,

(2) by a symbolic act - the abstaining from the usual outward mourning for his wife’s death.