“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
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“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great,
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 24:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 24:6 “ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the bloody city, to the cauldron whose rust is in it, and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot is fallen on it.
- Habakkuk 2:12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
- Isaiah 30:33 For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
- Isaiah 31:9 His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner,” says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 22:19-22 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem. As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you. Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it. As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.’ ”
- Ezekiel 22:31 Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- Nahum 3:1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.
- Luke 13:34-35 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused! Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”
- 2 Thessalonians 1:8 punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
- 2 Peter 3:7-12 But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness, looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
- Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
- Revelation 14:20 The wine press was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.
- Revelation 16:6 For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”
- Revelation 16:19 The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
- Revelation 21:8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, an heap of wood.
Or, an heap of wood.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 24:9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe…
Eze 24:9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
Ver. 9. Woe to the bloody city.] See Nah 3:1 Hab 2:12.
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I will even make the pile for fire great.] They shall undergo a long and sore siege.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Woe to the bloody city! see Eze 24:6.
Woe to the bloody city! see Eze 24:6.
I will even make the pile for fire great; God’s hand shall be seen inflicting all those sore afflictions on them. Judgments are a fire, the fuel whereof is to be great; for it is a fire to consume the wicked, and God will make it sufficiently great to do this. I will bring the mighty army of the Chaldeans, which, as a pile of wood set on fire, shall burn them up.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore thus saith the Lord God, woe to the…
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, woe to the bloody city,.... See Gill on Eze 24:6,
I will even make the pile for fire great; a large pile of wood, a great quantity of fuel to maintain the fire, and keep the pot boiling; meaning the vast army of the Chaldeans, which the Lord would bring against Jerusalem, which should closely besiege it, and vigorously attack it, until it had executed the fury of the wrath of God, comparable to fire, and of his judgments upon it. The Targum is,
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"even I will multiply her destruction.''
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Eze 24:9-11. Thus saith the Lord, &c. — In…
Eze 24:9-11. 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 for the fire great, is signified the destruction being very great and general. And spice it well — Or, season it well, so as to make it desirable. The expression imports, that the Babylonians should be as much set on destroying the city and inhabitants, as hungry people are greedy of devouring meat well spiced and dressed. This was a very proper expression, considering that Jerusalem, in the foregoing part of this chapter, is represented as a boiling pot, and the inhabitants of it as pieces of flesh boiled in it. All the other expressions of this verse signify an entire destruction. Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, &c. — This expresses, that after a riddance was made of the inhabitants, either by slaughtering them with the sword, or carrying them away into captivity, the city itself, represented by the pot, should be burned with fire, that its impurity might be consumed, or purged away by the flames; that is to say, that their wickedness might be taken away with their persons and city; or that the remains of the inhabitants, who were made captives, should be reformed by this terrible destruction of Jerusalem. If we understand it as spoken of the place of the city, the expression may allude to what was commanded in the ceremonial law, namely, that metal vessels, which water could not cleanse, should be purified by fire. Thus nothing short of burning Jerusalem down to the ground could purge it from its abominations: afterward it should be rebuilt, and become a holy city, free from the idolatries which had formerly defiled it.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the pile for fire--the hostile materials for the city's…
the pile for fire--the hostile materials for the city's destruction.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9. Woe to the bloody city — See also…
9. Woe to the bloody city — See also Eze_24:6; Eze_22:3; Eze_23:3. Jerusalem “the holy” now deserves the same name as Nineveh! (Nab. Eze_3:1.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. I will even] I too will make. LXX.…
9. I will even] I too will make. LXX. wants the clause “woe … city,” cf. Eze_24:6.
9–14. 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.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain We return to the image of the cauldron, and…
We return to the image of the cauldron, and once again, as in Ver. 6 and Eze_22:3 and Eze_23:37, we have the words which Nahum (Nah_3:1) had used of Nineveh applied to Jerusalem.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
General Information:
Yahweh continues telling a parable to Ezekiel about a cooking pot that represents Jerusalem. This parable continues through Ezekiel 24:14. (See: Parables)
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the city of blood
Here "blood" is a reference to "murder." AT: "the city of murderers" (See: Metonymy)
I will also enlarge the pile of wood
It is implied that the pile of wood is under the cooking pot that represents Jerusalem. "I will make the pile of wood on the fire under you even bigger" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
kindle the fire
"light the fire"
let the bones be charred
This can be stated in active form. AT: "burn the bones" (See: Active or Passive)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 24:9-12 God declared that he would now make the…
24:9-12 God declared that he would now make the cooking pot , Jerusalem, as red hot as if it were in a refiner’s furnace. Even this fire would not purge its corruption, however, for Jerusalem’s impurity was indelible.
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