Ezekiel 24:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein. 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.

Ezekiel 24:5

5 Take the choice of the flock, and burna also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.