Ezekiel 24:5-7
1599 Geneva Bible
5 Take one of the best sheep, and [a]burn also the [b]bones under it, and make it boil well, and seethe the bones of it therein,
6 Because the Lord God saith thus, Woe to the bloody city, even to the pot, [c]whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it: bring it out [d]piece by piece: let no [e]lot fall upon it.
7 For her blood is in the midst of her: she set it upon an high [f]rock, and poured it not upon the ground to cover it with dust,
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- Ezekiel 24:5 Or, heap.
- Ezekiel 24:5 Meaning, of the innocents, whom they had slain, who were the cause of the kindling of God’s wrath against them.
- Ezekiel 24:6 Whose iniquities and wicked citizens there yet remain.
- Ezekiel 24:6 Signifying that they should not be destroyed all at once, but by little and little.
- Ezekiel 24:6 Spare none estate or condition.
- Ezekiel 24:7 The city showed her cruelty to all the world, and was not ashamed thereof, neither yet hid it.
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