Set it, the hieroglyphic pot, empty; the water, flesh, bones, all consumed, i.e. the citizens all wasted with sword, famine, or pestilence, the city left as an empty, overboiled pot. Upon the coals thereof; signifying the burning of the city itself, after the emptying of its inhabitants. That the brass of it; perhaps he alludes to the impudence of their sins, in that the city is likened to a pot of brass. May be hot; God's judgments would increase upon them, as heat doth in a pot set on coals. And may burn; which is the highest degree; so should these miseries increase. That the filthiness, type of the sinfulness, the unreformed sinfulness of the city, may be molten in it; that their wickedness may be taken away with their persons and city: they should have been purged by gentler meltings which God used; since they were not, nor would be purified, now they shall be melted to the utter destruction of them. The scum: see Ezekiel 24:6.
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Ezekiel 24:11
11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.