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Ezekiel 24 Summary
The Boiling Pot Parable and Ezekiel's Silent Grief
Ezekiel receives a parable of a bloody pot that cannot be cleansed, representing Jerusalem's iniquity and the judgment of boiling it away. On the same day the king of Babylon besieges Jerusalem, Ezekiel's wife dies, and God commands him not to mourn openly as a sign to the people. When they ask the meaning of his silence, Ezekiel explains that the people will lose the desire of their eyes and cannot mourn, but shall pine away for their iniquities.
Key themes
Key verses
Ezekiel 24:6
“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.”
Ezekiel 24:2
“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.”
Ezekiel 24:24
“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.”
Ezekiel 24:27
“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.”
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