Ezekiel 24:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 24 By the parable of a boiling pot is showed the destruction of Jerusalem, the bloody city, Ezekiel 24:1-14. Ezekiel is forbidden to mourn for the death of his wife, Ezekiel 24:15-18, to denote that this calamity of the Jews shall be beyond all expressions of sorrow, Ezekiel 24:19-24. In that day of affliction the prophet's mouth shall be opened to their conviction, Ezekiel 24:25-27. In the ninth year of the captivity of Jeconiah, and those that were carried away with him; it falls in also with the year of Zedekiah's reign, though the prophet, and the captives now in Babylon, reckon not by this, but by the former. The tenth month; which answers to part of December and January. The tenth day; about our 29th of December, when the winter was well over with them. Came unto me; the prophet was now in Babylon many leagues from Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 24:1

1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,