Esekíel 24:5

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5 Tak þau af úrvalskindum og legg einnig skíð undir pottinn. Lát sjóða á kjötstykkjunum, beinbitarnir soðna þegar í honum.

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  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the choice: Ezekiel 20:47, Ezekiel 34:16, Ezekiel 34:17, Ezekiel 34:20, Jeremiah 39:6, Jeremiah 52:10, Jeremiah 52:24-27, Revelation 19:20

burn: or, heap, Ezekiel 24:9, Ezekiel 24:10

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take the choice of the flock,.... King, princes, nobles, magistrates, priests and rulers of the people:

and burn also the bones under it: or, "put a pile of bones under it" u; the bones of them that are slain in it; denoting the great slaughter of them; or the bones of the innocent that had been murdered in it; which were the cause of these judgments coming upon them; and caused the wrath of God to burn the more hotly against them; or the bones of the wicked:

and make it boil well; the pot; that the water may be very hot and boiling; denoting the severity of the judgments of God in the city, to the destruction of many by sword, famine, and pestilence:

and let them seethe the bones of it therein; that the strongest among them may be weakened and destroyed by the length and severity of the siege, and the judgments attending it. The Targum is,

"bring near the kings of the people, and even join auxiliaries with them; hasten the time of it yea, let her slain be cast in the midst of her.''

u דור העצמים תחתיה "pyram ossium sub ipsa", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Starckius. דור "rogus, strues materiae combustibililis rotunda", Stockius, p. 223.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Burn - Rather, as in margin; the bones would serve for fuel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 24:5. Make it boil well — Let it boil over, that its own scum may augment the fire, that the bones - the soldiers, may be seethed therein. Let its contentions, divided counsels, and disunion be the means of increasing its miseries, רתח רתחיה rattach rethacheyha, let it bubble its bubbling; something like that of the poet: -

"Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble:

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."

Very like the noise made by ebullition, when a pot of thick broth, "sleek and slab," is set over a fierce fire. Such was that here represented, in which all the flesh, the fat and the bones were to be boiled, and generally dissolved together.