10Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
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All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)We have here, I. The notice God gives to Ezekiel in Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar’s laying siege to Jerusalem, just at the time when he was doing it (Ezek. 24:2): “ Son of man , take notice, the king of Babylon , who is now abroad with his army, thou knowest not where, set himself against Jerusalem this same day .” It was many miles, it was many days’ journey, from Jerusalem to Babylon. Perhaps the la…
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