Ezekiel 24

The Siege of Jerusalem

1 Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, write down the name of the day, this very day - the king of Babylon started his siege against Jerusalem a this very day.

3 b "And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD:
c "Put on a pot, set it on,
And also pour water into it. 4 Gather pieces of meat in it,
Every good piece,
The thigh and the shoulder.
Fill it with choice 1 cuts; 5 Take the choice of the flock.
Also pile fuel bones under it,
Make it boil well,
And let the cuts simmer in it."

6 'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:
"Woe to d the bloody city,
To the pot whose scum is in it,
And whose scum is not gone from it!
Bring it out piece by piece,
On which no e lot has fallen. 7 For her blood is in her midst;
She set it on top of a rock;
f She did not pour it on the ground,
To cover it with dust. 8 That it may raise up fury and take vengeance,
g I have set her blood on top of a rock,
That it may not be covered." 9 'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:
h "Woe to the bloody city!
I too will make the pyre great. 10 Heap on the wood,
Kindle the fire;
Cook the meat well,
Mix in the spices,
And let the 2 cuts be burned up. 11 "Then set the pot empty on the coals,
That it may become hot and its bronze may burn,
That i its filthiness may be melted in it,
That its scum may be consumed. 12 She has 3 grown weary with 4 lies,
And her great scum has not gone from her.
Let her scum be in the fire! 13 In your j filthiness is lewdness.
Because I have cleansed you, and you were not cleansed,
You will k not be cleansed of your filthiness anymore,
l Till I have caused My fury to rest upon you. 14 m I, the LORD, have spoken it;
n It shall come to pass, and I will do it;
I will not hold back,
o Nor will I spare,
Nor will I relent;
According to your ways
And according to your deeds
5 They will judge you,"
Says the Lord GOD.' "

Ezekiel's Wife Dies

15 Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 16 "Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with one stroke; yet you shall p neither mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears run down. 17 "Sigh in silence, q make no mourning for the dead; r bind your turban on your head, and s put your sandals on your feet; t do not cover your 6 lips, and do not eat man's bread of sorrow." 18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died; and the next morning I did as I was commanded.

19 And the people said to me, u "Will you not tell us what these things signify to us, that you behave so?" 20 Then I answered them, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying, 21 'Speak to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'Behold, v I will profane My sanctuary, 7 your arrogant boast, the desire of your eyes, the 8 delight of your soul; w and your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword. 22 'And you shall do as I have done; x you shall not cover your 9 lips nor eat man's bread of sorrow. 23 'Your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; y you shall neither mourn nor weep, but z you shall pine away in your iniquities and mourn with one another. 24 'Thus a Ezekiel is a sign to you; according to all that he has done you shall do; b and when this comes, c you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.' "

25 'And you, son of man - will it not be in the day when I take from them d their stronghold, their joy and their glory, the desire of their eyes, and 10 that on which they set their minds, their sons and their daughters: 26 'on that day e one who escapes will come to you to let you hear it with your ears; 27 f 'on that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you shall speak and no longer be mute. Thus you will be a sign to them, and they shall know that I am the LORD.' "

  1. Cross References
    2 Kings 25:1
    Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.
    Jeremiah 39:1
    In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it.
    Jeremiah 52:4
    Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.
  2. Cross References
    Ezekiel 17:12
    Say now to the rebellious house: 'Do you not know what these things mean? ' Tell them, 'Indeed the king of Babylon went to Jerusalem and took its king and princes, and led them with him to Babylon.
  3. Cross References
    Jeremiah 1:13
    And the word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see a boiling pot, and it is facing away from the north.
    Ezekiel 11:3
    "who say, ' The time is not near to build houses; this city is the caldron, and we are the meat.'
  4. Cross References
    2 Kings 24:3
    Surely at the commandment of the LORD this came...
    2 Kings 24:4
    And also because of the innocent blood that he ...
    Ezekiel 22:2
    Now, son of man, will you judge, will you judge...
    Ezekiel 22:3
    Then say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "The city sh...
    Ezekiel 22:27
    Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearin...
    Micah 7:2
    The faithful man has perished from the earth, A...
    Nahum 3:1
    Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies ...
  5. Cross References
    2 Samuel 8:2
    Then he defeated Moab. Forcing them down to the ground, he measured them off with a line. With two lines he measured off those to be put to death, and with one full line those to be kept alive. So the Moabites became David's servants, and brought tribute.
    Joel 3:3
    They have cast lots for My people, Have given a boy as payment for a harlot, And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
    Nahum 3:10
    Yet she was carried away, She went into captivity; Her young children also were dashed to pieces At the head of every street; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound in chains.
  6. Cross References
    Leviticus 17:13
    Whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who hunts and catches any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust.
    Deuteronomy 12:16
    Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.
  7. Cross References
    Matthew 7:2
    For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
  8. Cross References
    Ezekiel 24:6
    Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Woe to the bloody city, To the pot whose scum is in it, And whose scum is not gone from it! Bring it out piece by piece, On which no lot has fallen.
    Nahum 3:1
    Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. Its victim never departs.
    Habakkuk 2:12
    Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, Who establishes a city by iniquity!
  9. Cross References
    Ezekiel 22:15
    I will scatter you among the nations, disperse you throughout the countries, and remove your filthiness completely from you.
  10. Cross References
    Ezekiel 23:36 - 48
    The LORD also said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.
  11. Cross References
    Jeremiah 6:28 - 30
    They are all stubborn rebels, walking as slanderers. They are bronze and iron, They are all corrupters.
    Ezekiel 22:24
    "Son of man, say to her: 'You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.'
  12. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:13
    Thus shall My anger be spent, and I will cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be avenged; and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them.
    Ezekiel 8:18
    "Therefore I also will act in fury. My eye will not spare nor will I have pity; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them."
    Ezekiel 16:42
    So I will lay to rest My fury toward you, and My jealousy shall depart from you. I will be quiet, and be angry no more.
  13. Cross References
    1 Samuel 15:29
    "And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent."
  14. Cross References
    Numbers 23:19
    God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
    Psalms 33:9
    For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.
    Isaiah 55:11
    So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
  15. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:11
    Therefore, as I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity.
  16. Cross References
    Jeremiah 16:5
    For thus says the LORD: "Do not enter the house of mourning, nor go to lament or bemoan them; for I have taken away My peace from this people," says the LORD, "lovingkindness and mercies.
  17. Cross References
    Jeremiah 16:5
    For thus says the LORD: "Do not enter the house of mourning, nor go to lament or bemoan them; for I have taken away My peace from this people," says the LORD, "lovingkindness and mercies.
  18. Cross References
    Leviticus 10:6
    And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, "Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, lest you die, and wrath come upon all the people. But let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD has kindled.
    Leviticus 21:10
    He who is the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was poured and who is consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear his clothes.
  19. Cross References
    2 Samuel 15:30
    So David went up by the Ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered and went barefoot. And all the people who were with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went up.
  20. Cross References
    Micah 3:7
    So the seers shall be ashamed, And the diviners abashed; Indeed they shall all cover their lips; For there is no answer from God.
  21. Cross References
    Ezekiel 12:9
    "Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, 'What are you doing?'
    Ezekiel 37:18
    And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, 'Will you not show us what you mean by these?' -
  22. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:14
    Therefore I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
    Lamentations 2:7
    The Lord has spurned His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces Into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the LORD As on the day of a set feast.
    Ezekiel 7:20
    As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in majesty; But they made from it The images of their abominations - Their detestable things; Therefore I have made it Like refuse to them.
    Ezekiel 7:24
    Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be defiled.
  23. Cross References
    Jeremiah 6:11
    Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD. I am weary of holding it in. "I will pour it out on the children outside, And on the assembly of young men together; For even the husband shall be taken with the wife, The aged with him who is full of days.
    Jeremiah 16:3
    For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them and their fathers who begot them in this land:
    Jeremiah 16:4
    "They shall die gruesome deaths; they shall not be lamented nor shall they be buried, but they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their corpses shall be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth."
    Ezekiel 23:25
    I will set My jealousy against you, And they shall deal furiously with you; They shall remove your nose and your ears, And your remnant shall fall by the sword; They shall take your sons and your daughters, And your remnant shall be devoured by fire.
    Ezekiel 23:47
    The assembly shall stone them with stones and execute them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.
  24. Cross References
    Jeremiah 16:6
    Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried; neither shall men lament for them, cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.
    Jeremiah 16:7
    Nor shall men break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or their mother.
  25. Cross References
    Job 27:15
    Those who survive him shall be buried in death, And their widows shall not weep.
    Psalms 78:64
    Their priests fell by the sword, And their widows made no lamentation.
  26. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:39
    And those of you who are left shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; also in their fathers' iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.
    Ezekiel 33:10
    "Therefore you, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: 'Thus you say, "If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we pine away in them, how can we then live?"'
  27. Cross References
    Isaiah 20:3
    Then the LORD said, "Just as My servant Isaiah ...
    Ezekiel 4:3
    Moreover take for yourself an iron plate, and s...
    Ezekiel 12:6
    "In their sight you shall bear them on your sho...
    Ezekiel 12:11
    "Say, 'I am a sign to you. As I have done, so s...
    Luke 11:29
    And while the crowds were thickly gathered toge...
    Luke 11:30
    For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so...
  28. Cross References
    Jeremiah 17:15
    Indeed they say to me, "Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!
    John 13:19
    Now I tell you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe that I am He.
    John 14:29
    And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe.
  29. Cross References
    Ezekiel 6:7
    The slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
    Ezekiel 25:5
    "And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels and Ammon a resting place for flocks. Then you shall know that I am the LORD."
  30. Cross References
    Psalms 48:2
    Beautiful in elevation, The joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, The city of the great King.
    Psalms 50:2
    Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God will shine forth.
    Ezekiel 24:21
    Speak to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, your arrogant boast, the desire of your eyes, the delight of your soul; and your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.
  31. Cross References
    Ezekiel 33:21
    And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, "The city has been captured!
  32. Cross References
    Ezekiel 3:26
    I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute and not be one to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious house.
    Ezekiel 33:22
    Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before the man came who had escaped. And He had opened my mouth; so when he came to me in the morning, my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.
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