Ezekiel 24:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

All this allegory contains woeful and heavy tidings, misery and desolation to them that are represented by it. The bloody city; see Ezekiel 22:2,3; Jerusalem, which is this pot. Whose scum is therein; filthiness, her abominations, all her lewdness, are still within. her; they have not been punished, restrained, or cast out by the execution of just and good laws; but the citizens have with obstinacy, impenitence, and with impudence continued in them. Whose scum is not gone out of it; the same thing repeated for confirming what was said. Bring it out piece by piece; let them know it shall be a lingering destruction to them, yet a total, one piece after another, till all be consumed. Let no lot fall upon it; lots are for saving some, and determining who they shall be; but here shall no such discrimination be made, no sparing any and slaying others by lot, who do not die shall go into captivity.

Ezekiel 24:6

6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.