Ezekiel 24:10

New Living Translation

Yes, heap on the wood! Let the fire roar to make the pot boil. Cook the meat with many spices, and afterward burn the bones.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Pile on the logs and kindle the fire!Cook the meat welland mix in the spices!Let the bones be burned!

Hebrew Names Version
Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.

King James Version
Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

English Standard Version
Heap on the logs, kindle the fire, boil the meat well, mix in the spices, and let the bones be burned up.

New American Standard Bible
"Heap on the wood, kindle the fire, Cook the meat thoroughly And mix in the spices, And let the bones be burned up.

New Century Version
Pile up the wood and light the fire. Finish cooking the meat. Mix in the spices, and let the bones burn.

Amplified Bible
"Heap on wood, kindle the fire, Boil the meat well [done] And mix in the spices, And let the bones be burned.

World English Bible
Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Heape on much wood: kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and cast in spice, and let the bones be burnt.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Heap on the wood, kindle the fire, Boil the flesh well And mix in the spices, And let the bones be burned.

Legacy Standard Bible
Heap on the wood, kindle the fire,Completely cook the fleshAnd mix in the spicesAnd let the bones be burned.

Berean Standard Bible
Pile on the logs and kindle the fire; cook the meat well and mix in the spices; let the bones be burned.

Contemporary English Version
so bring more wood and light it. Cook the meat and boil away the broth to let the bones scorch.

Complete Jewish Bible
heap on the wood, light it, cook the meat and add the spices — the bones can just be burned.

Darby Translation
Heap on the wood, kindle the fire, boil thoroughly the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

Easy-to-Read Version
Put plenty of wood under the pot. Light the fire. Cook the meat until it is well done. Mix in the spices, and let the bones be burned up.

George Lamsa Translation
And I will kindle the fire, and the flesh shall be cooked and seethe, and the bones shall be burned.

Good News Translation
Bring more wood! Fan the flames! Cook the meat! Boil away the broth! Burn up the bones!

Lexham English Bible
Pile up the logs; kindle the fire; finish cooking the meat, and mix in the spices, and let the bones be burned.

Literal Translation
and heap on the wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and mix in the spice, and let the bones be burned.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
beare thou ye bones together, kyndle thou the fyre, seeth the flesh, let all be well sodde, that the bones maye be suckte out.

American Standard Version
Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.

Bible in Basic English
Put on much wood, heating up the fire, boiling the flesh well, and making the soup thick, and let the bones be burned.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
heaping on the wood, kindling the fire, that the flesh may be consumed; and preparing the mixture, that the bones also may be burned;

King James Version (1611)
Heape on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burnt.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And set much wood, and kindle the fire, and seeth the fleshe, & spice the pot, so that the very bones shalbe brent.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and I will multiply the wood, and kindle the fire, that the flesh may be consumed, and the liquor boiled away;

English Revised Version
Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
gadere thou togidire boonys, whiche Y schal kyndle with fier; fleischis schulen be wastid, and al the settyng togidere schal be sodun, and boonys schulen faile.

Update Bible Version
Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.

Webster's Bible Translation
Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

New English Translation
Pile up the bones, kindle the fire; cook the meat well, mix in the spices, let the bones be charred.

New King James Version
Heap on the wood, Kindle the fire; Cook the meat well, Mix in the spices, And let the cuts be burned up.

New Life Bible
Put on more and more wood, and make the fire burn. Boil the meat well. Mix in the spices, and let the bones be burned up.

New Revised Standard
Heap up the logs, kindle the fire; boil the meat well, mix in the spices, let the bones be burned.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Heap on the wood Kindle the fire, Consume the flesh, Yea season with spice, And let the bones be scorched.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Heap together the bones, which I will burn with fire: the flesh shall be consumed, and the whole composition shall be sodden, and the bones shall be consumed.

Revised Standard Version
Heap on the logs, kindle the fire, boil well the flesh, and empty out the broth, and let the bones be burned up.

Young's Literal Translation
Make abundant the wood, Kindle the fire, consume the flesh, And make the compound, And let the bones be burnt.

Contextual Overview

¹ On January 15, during the ninth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity, this message came to me from the Lord : ² "Son of man, write down today's date, because on this very day the king of Babylon is beginning his attack against Jerusalem. ³ Then give these rebels an illustration with this message from the Sovereign Lord : "Put a pot on the fire, and pour in some water. ⁴ Fill it with choice pieces of meat— the rump and the shoulder and all the most tender cuts. ⁵ Use only the best sheep from the flock, and heap fuel on the fire beneath the pot. Bring the pot to a boil, and cook the bones along with the meat. ⁶ "Now this is what the Sovereign Lord says: What sorrow awaits Jerusalem, the city of murderers! She is a cooking pot whose corruption can't be cleaned out. Take the meat out in random order, for no piece is better than another. ⁷ For the blood of her murders is splashed on the rocks. It isn't even spilled on the ground, where the dust could cover it! ⁸ So I will splash her blood on a rock for all to see, an expression of my anger and vengeance against her. ⁹ "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: What sorrow awaits Jerusalem, the city of murderers! I myself will pile up the fuel beneath her. ¹⁰ Yes, heap on the wood! Let the fire roar to make the pot boil. Cook the meat with many spices, and afterward burn the bones.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

spice: Jeremiah 17:3, Jeremiah 20:5, Lamentations 1:10, Lamentations 2:16

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 21:13 - I will wipe Ezekiel 24:5 - burn

Cross-References

Genesis 11:31
One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram's wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran's child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there.

Genesis 24:2
One day Abraham said to his oldest servant, the man in charge of his household, "Take an oath by putting your hand under my thigh.

Genesis 24:4
Go instead to my homeland, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son Isaac."

Genesis 24:5
The servant asked, "But what if I can't find a young woman who is willing to travel so far from home? Should I then take Isaac there to live among your relatives in the land you came from?"

Genesis 24:6
"No!" Abraham responded. "Be careful never to take my son there.

Genesis 24:8
If she is unwilling to come back with you, then you are free from this oath of mine. But under no circumstances are you to take my son there."

Genesis 24:9
So the servant took an oath by putting his hand under the thigh of his master, Abraham. He swore to follow Abraham's instructions.

Genesis 24:10
Then he loaded ten of Abraham's camels with all kinds of expensive gifts from his master, and he traveled to distant Aram-naharaim. There he went to the town where Abraham's brother Nahor had settled.

Genesis 24:22
Then at last, when the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring for her nose and two large gold bracelets for her wrists.

Genesis 24:23
"Whose daughter are you?" he asked. "And please tell me, would your father have any room to put us up for the night?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Heap on wood, kindle the fire,.... This is said either to the prophet, to do this in an emblematic way; or to the Chaldean army, to prepare for the siege, encompass the city, begin their attacks, and throw in their stones out of their slings and engines, and arrows from their bows:

consume the flesh; not entirely, since it is afterwards to be spiced; but thoroughly boil it; denoting the severe sufferings the inhabitants should undergo before their utter ruin:

spice it well; pepper them off; batter their walls, beat down their houses, distress them by all manner of ways and means; signifying that this would be grateful to the Lord, as his justice would be glorified in the destruction of this people; and as the plunder of them would be like a spiced and sweet morsel to the enemy; whose appetites would hereby be sharpened and become keen, and to whom the sacking and plundering the city would be as agreeable as well seasoned meat to a hungry man:

and let the bones be burnt; either under it, or rather in it; even the strongest and most powerful among the people destroyed, who should hold out the longest in the siege. The Targum of the whole is,

"multiply kings; gather an army; order the auxiliaries, and prepare against her warriors, and let her mighty ones be confounded.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Consume ... spice it well - i. e., “dress the flesh, and make it froth and bubble, that the bones and the flesh may be all boiled up together.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 24:10. Heap on wood — Let the siege be severe, the carnage great, and the ruin and catastrophe complete.