Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Ezekiel 24:8
I have set] What was mere shameless wickedness on Jerusalem's part was yet the working out of God's purpose of judgment.
I have set] What was mere shameless wickedness on Jerusalem's part was yet the working out of God's purpose of judgment.
Verse Ezekiel 24:8. _THAT IT MIGHT CAUSE FURY_] This very blood shall be against them, as the blood of _Abel_ was against _Cain_....
THE TOP OF A ROCK - The blood was poured upon a naked, dry, rock where it could not be absorbed or unnoticed....
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...
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...
_I have set her blood_ In Ezekiel 24:7 it was Jerusalem herself who left her bloodshed uncovered; here, as usual in the prophet, this is an appointment of God, that he may bring up judgment because of...
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...
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. THAT IT MIGHT CAUSE FURY TO COME UP TO TAKE VENGEANCE. God purpose...
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...
I HAVE SET. — Here God Himself is said to do that which has just been charged upon Jerusalem. There is no inconsistency between the statements; Jerusalem gloried in her crimes, and God made those crim...
לְ הַעֲלֹ֤ות חֵמָה֙ לִ נְקֹ֣ם נָקָ֔ם נָתַ֥תִּ
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...
THAT IT MIGHT CAUSE FURY TO COME UP TO TAKE VENGEANCE,.... Into the heart and mind of God, into his face, speaking after the manner of men; observing such gross and open wickedness, he determined with...
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. Ver. 8. _I have set her blood upon the top of a rock._] _a_ Where it...
_Wherefore thus saith the Lord_ Here begins an explication of the preceding symbolical representation; _Wo to the bloody city_ Jerusalem, which is this pot; _whose scum is therein_ Whose filthiness, o...
VISION OF THE BOILING CALDRON...
that it might, in bringing near the judgment of God, CAUSE FURY TO COME UP TO TAKE VENGEANCE, or, "to make fury to ascend, to execute vengeance. " I HAVE SET HER BLOOD UPON THE TOP OF A ROCK, on the b...
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...
This provoked the anger of the Lord, and raised his fury against them. TO COME UP, into the face of God, (after the manner of man,) as EZEKIEL 38:18. TO TAKE VENGEANCE; to God it appertains to take ve...
Ezekiel 24:8 raise H5927 (H8687) fury H2534 take H5358 (H8800) vengeance H5359 set H5414 (H8804) blood...
“For her blood is in the midst of her. She set it on the bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust. That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance I have set her blood...
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 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 4:5; 2 Chronicles 34:25; 2 Chronicles 36:16; 2 Chronicles 36:17;...
I have set — I will openly punish, and in such a manner as shall not be soon forgotten....