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Chapter 24 takes place on an auspicious date, the tenth of Tevet. This is the date that would later become a fast day commemorating the siege of Jerusalem. The chapter opens with an image of a boiling pot symbolizing the burning city. This image is not random. In chapter 11, the leaders of Jerusalem compared themselves to a pot to show they were safe and secure from what was around them. Here, God says yes, you are like a pot, but instead of a pot that protects what is inside, the flames of the burning city will destroy you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At the end of the chapter, Ezekiel is faced with a horrific task. God warns the prophet that his wife will die, but Ezekiel will not be allowed to mourn for her. What is the meaning of this terrible trial? One possibility is that the destruction of the Temple was so tragic that the people will be too shocked to mourn. However, if God really wanted this to be the perfect sign, then God should not have warned Ezekiel of his wife's impending death. Instead, God should have just told Ezekiel right afterwards that he should not mourn, similar to God's instruction to Aaron after the death of his two sons in the Tabernacle. Then perhaps Ezekiel's reaction would be one of shock.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi says this is a sign that the people will be afraid to mourn because they are in exile in Babylonia, the perpetrators of the destruction. Rashi's interpretation seems at odds with the gravity of the task. Why should the prophet be punished because the people will be afraid to mourn? Some commentators explain that the destruction was so sudden that the people will be in shock and not able to mourn. This interpretation at first does not seem to match because the destruction was not sudden. Prophets had warned for years it would happen and the city itself went through several years of siege and exiles and battles. Ezekiel was also warned ahead of time that his wife would die. But this interpretation may indeed be the most relevant. Perhaps the people and Ezekiel could not believe that these tragedies would happen to them, despite God's warnings. The shock came from God actually following through with His promise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Ezekiel 24 contains two more omens, an object, followed by an emotionally challenging command, presaging what will transpire when Jerusalem is besieged by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon. First, the \u201cobject\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Put the cauldron [on the fire], put it on, and then pour water into it. Collect in it the pieces [of meat]. Every choice piece, thigh and shoulder; fill it with the best cuts. Take the best of the flock and pile the cuts under it; get it boiling briskly, and cook the cuts in it\u2026 (verses 3-5)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Pile on the logs, kindle the fire, cook the meat through, and stew it completely, <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And let the bones be charred. Let it stand empty on the coals, until it becomes so hot that the copper glows. Then its impurity shall melt away in it, and its rust be consumed (verses 10-11).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In addition to the heated cauldron stewing the meat, the blood integral to the pieces placed in the pot, will turn into \u201cscum\u201d (vs. 6-8, 12-13) a source of defilement that can never be eradicated until God is \u201csatisfied\u201d that the people have suffered sufficiently.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The \u201cblood\u201d theme is reiterated, when during the course of this first omen, Jerusalem as a whole is referred to as \u201cthe city of blood\u201d (vs. 6, 9; earlier 22:2). The symbolism and appellation suggest that the worst of the city\u2019s sins is the spilling of innocent blood, and that God is now determined to expiate this transgression.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But more difficult to understand is the second omen to which God subjects everyone, including the prophet himself. God determines to remove that which is dearest to them\u2014the Temple, their children and for Ezekiel, his own wife, but prohibits those who have suffered losses to demonstrate any public mourning (vs. 16-17, 22-23.) I suppose that if there was a plague to which she fell victim, as many others probably did, while she could have been protected by God, she was in the \u201cwrong place\u201d at the \u201cwrong time.\u201d But some commentators, such as Rashi, Tosafot, Abravanel, state that the woman died suddenly, seemingly to preclude a plague which is ordinarily marked by gradualness and inevitability.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The fact that we are not even told the name of Ezekiel\u2019s wife, leads one to conclude that either both of them were elderly, and therefore her death, although sudden, was not unexpected\u2014or, more regrettably, that she was interchangeable with other women.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":72383,"alt":"","title":"jer45-destruction","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction.jpg","width":1125,"height":775,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction-300x207.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":207,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction-768x529.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":529,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction-1024x705.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":705,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction.jpg","1536x1536-width":1125,"1536x1536-height":775,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction.jpg","2048x2048-width":1125,"2048x2048-height":775,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction.jpg","post_full_size-width":1125,"post_full_size-height":775,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction-610x420.jpg","home_baner-width":610,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Two Omens","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Presaging more death and destruction","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":72383,"alt":"","title":"jer45-destruction","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction.jpg","width":1125,"height":775,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction-300x207.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":207,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction-768x529.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":529,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction-1024x705.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":705,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction.jpg","1536x1536-width":1125,"1536x1536-height":775,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction.jpg","2048x2048-width":1125,"2048x2048-height":775,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction.jpg","post_full_size-width":1125,"post_full_size-height":775,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer45-destruction-610x420.jpg","home_baner-width":610,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Ezekiel","chapter":"24","chapter_main_number":"476","date":"20270627","wall_id":"476"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"383","name":"Death","old_id":"783"},{"term_id":"484","name":"Mourning","old_id":"884"},{"term_id":"635","name":"Jerusalem","old_id":"1035"},{"term_id":"680","name":"Symbolism","old_id":"1080"}]},{"order":5,"id":"74439","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Where There Are No Comforters, There Is No Mourning\u00a0 ","post_title":"Where There Are No Comforters, There Is No Mourning\u00a0","slug":"where-there-are-no-comforters-there-is-no-mourning","old_id":"74439","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":38322,"post_title":"James A. 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God commissions Ezekiel to perform a shocking form of \u201cstreet theatre\u201d, transforming his own life into an embodied portent (<\/span>mofet<\/span><\/i> v. 24) of Israel\u2019s future. He must suppress any customary mourning rites at the loss of his own wife! In contemporary terms Ezekiel was compelled to abstain from sitting <\/span>shiva<\/span><\/i> or any of its overt expressions of grief. Jewish mourning customs are in fact derived from those from which Ezekiel is commanded to desist (<\/span>Moed Katan <\/span><\/i>15a).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi understands Ezekiel\u2019s restraint as a symbolic allusion to the punishing extent of the destruction. It portends death so all-encompassing that \u201cthere will not be even one person who is not a mourner and there can be no mourning where there are no comforters.\u201d However, there is another allusive layer to Ezekiel\u2019s strange behaviour. The prospect of no comforters for those in need of comfort mirrors an endemic self-centeredness at the core of Israelite society. Those who enjoy privileged positions capable of providing comfort do not provide it for the disadvantaged who need it like orphans, widows, immigrants, defenseless family members, and the elderly, as described in 22:6-12.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel\u2019s repeated phrase \u201ceye\u2019s desire\u201d (<\/span>machmad ayin<\/span><\/i>) exposes this moral breakdown when read in light of its only other appearance in a prior biblical narrative. In I Kings 20, Ahab, king of Israel, hastily surrenders to the foreign king Ben-Hadad\u2019s sabre rattling demands to submit everything to his control, including economic (<\/span>gold, silver<\/span><\/i>) and human resources, (<\/span>the choicest wives and children<\/span><\/i>). However, once Ben Hadad clarifies that his demand intends invading the king\u2019s own house and wives for the \u201cdesires of your eyes\u201d- <\/span>My underlings will come tomorrow and search through your palace<\/span><\/i> (I Kings 20:6)- Ahab reconsiders his submission and consults with his elders deciding on a policy of resistance rather than capitulation. Ben Hadad\u2019s subtle addition of the phrase resonates with Ahab\u2019s personal possessions and relationships which prompts him to an about-face. Only the stark realization of losing his own \u201cdesires\u201d changed his initial willingness to sell his nation out.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps this is the meaning of Ezekiel\u2019s use of the same phrase to identify those three most cherished objects the people stand to lose- spouse ( v.16), Temple (v.21), and children (v 25). It emphasizes their tunnel vision fixated solely on their personal relationships whether in social or religious contexts. Their eyes are directed inward, toward their own families. Their Temple dedication is self-serving, manipulated to attract divine benefits for themselves. Ezekiel cites God\u2019s possessive form \u201cMy Temple\u201d almost exclusively in prophetic literature, appearing in his book fifteen out of the sixteen times in the entire biblical corpus outside of Leviticus. This possessive provides a particular corrective to the popular distorted view of the spiritual centre as the \u201cpeople\u2019s\u201d, a magical place to exploit for glory and gain, rather than God\u2019s (Mine) and dedication to His commandments.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are indeed no authentic comforters anywhere to be found and so there can be no mourners for the loss of their \u201ceyes desires.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our chapter bears the date \u201cthe ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month,\u201d which, according to 2 Kings 25:1 and Jeremiah 52:4, marks the date on which Nebuchadnezzar began his siege of Jerusalem. On the Jewish calendar, that is the 10<\/span>th<\/span> of Tevet, on which we observe a public fast day in commemoration of the launching of that siege.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Unlike Jeremiah, however, who was an eyewitness to the siege and destruction, Ezekiel, on that day, was far away in Babylon. To Radak (v.2), this suggested the following:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He [Ezekiel] was command to write down the date and show it to the exiles, because on that day the king of Babylon laid siege; and when they would later receive the report that it really happened on the very day the prophet had written down they would know that a prophet was among them and what he had said in God\u2019s name was true, and they would no longer pay heed to the false prophets.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moshe Greenberg, however, spotted an anomaly. Whereas the usual style of Ezekiel has the phrase \u201cthe word of the Lord came to me\u201d following the date\u2014cf. chapters 1, 8, 20, 26, 29, 31, 32 (vs. 1, 17)\u2014here it precedes it. He speculated:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is likely that originally no date appeared in the revelation formula (as, e.g., in 23:1 and mostly), and that the present one was subsequently copied from Kings into the margin and later into the text. (Anchor Bible, <\/span>Ezekiel<\/span><\/i>, 496)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While untraditional, his explanation is credible when we recall that the Sages denied Ezekiel the authorship of his own book, attributing it, instead, to the Men of the Great Assembly (Baba Batra 14b), allowing the possibility of editorial inserts. 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The prophecy concerning the imminent fate of the city resembles the destruction that Ezekiel had prophesied in the past, but he no longer reacts with cries of surprise or distress, as he had earlier; now he is apathetic. From now on, his pre-destruction prophetic mission is limited to describing the situation in the city.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The description begins presenting a city that is full of bloodshed. Ezekiel\u2019s accusation is against all of Jerusalem\u2019s inhabitants \u2013 all classes and positions. Throughout the book Ezekiel avoids using the name Jerusalem altogether. Perhaps this is because the actions of the nation have not only led to the defiling of the name, but have also caused a rupture in God\u2019s attitude towards the eternity of the city.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chapter 24 contains two accounts of loss: the loss of Ezekiel\u2019s wife, and the loss of the Temple. The connection between Ezekiel\u2019s private loss and the nation\u2019s loss of the Temple indicates that the profaning of the Temple is irreversible: in other words, the Temples that will be built after the destruction of the First Temple represent a new creation, not a recreation of the Temple that existed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel is commanded not to mourn for his wife as a sign to the people. Why, then, are the people of Israel commanded not to mourn over the Temple?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The withholding of mourning may represent a sort of Divine punishment \u2013 or, alternatively, an act of acceptance of God\u2019s will. Perhaps mourning is only significant for the comfort that others give to the mourner and the commandment not to mourn signifies that there are none to comfort.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This prophecy concludes Ezekiel\u2019s prophecies of rebuke uttered before the destruction and ends his term of silence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Published in conjunction with hatanach.com. 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The book of Ezekiel includes more parables than any other book of prophets. Chapter 24 includes prophecies that close out a lengthy passage dealing with God\u2019s rebuke of the Jewish people, and it does so with the use of parables.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The word \u201cparable\u201d comes from the Greek word \u201cparabol\u0113\u201d, which literally means \u201cthrowing alongside\u201d: a comparison or an analogy. In the parable of the pot that opens this chapter, our sages explain that the description of setting the pot to boil illustrates the beginning of the siege on Jerusalem. The parable continues with \u201cgood cuts of meat\u201d representing the leaders of Judah who mistakenly believe they are taking refuge in safety (which turns out to be like a pot on fire), and the bones at the bottom of the pot an analogy for the elite of the Jewish nation who will protect those placed in the pot above them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why would God choose to have prophets use parables to warn His nation and motivate them towards repentance? A September 2008 article in <\/span>Scientific American Mind<\/span><\/i> illustrated through two studies that subjects were more likely to change their minds when their brains were presented with stories rather than facts. Similarly, in the world of marketing, ads that tell a story about a product rather than merely reel off facts, produce better results (think about Coca Cola teaching the world to sing.) Previous prophets tried the analytical, fact-based approach to changing the minds of the nation to no avail, so it\u2019s time to ramp up a new angle of persuasion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jack Sammons, Mercer University School of Law (Parables and Pedagogy, 2005) defines the purpose of parables as being for \u201cprimarily orienting, disorienting and then reorienting the listener to matters\u2026by a jolting reminder to the listener of things he or she already knows.\u201d The point, he says, is not to show people what they don\u2019t know but what they do know. Surely by now, after all the prophets\u2019 efforts to rebuke and clearly detail the people\u2019s transgressions and resulting consequences, this audience knows cerebrally what\u2019s coming, but they haven\u2019t yet felt it in their hearts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These parables, that are presented with increasing frequency in the Books of the Prophets may be God\u2019s way of bridging that gap between mind and heart to ensure that the Jewish nation goes beyond simply <\/span>knowing<\/span><\/em> what is happening and why, but <\/span>feels<\/span><\/em> it their heart and soul.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":74445,"alt":"","title":"ez24-cola","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Prophecy, Parables And Coca-Cola","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Feeling the story works better than knowing the facts","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":74445,"alt":"","title":"ez24-cola","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez24-cola-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Ezekiel","chapter":"24","chapter_main_number":"476","date":"20270627","wall_id":"476"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":10,"id":"74442","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"2","name":"\u201cIf You Can\u2019t Stand The Heat\u201d\u00a0 ","post_title":"\u201cIf You Can\u2019t Stand The Heat\u201d\u00a0","slug":"if-you-cant-stand-the-heat","old_id":"74442","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":73524,"post_title":"Yaakov Beasley","slug":"yaakov-beasley","old_id":"73524","first_name":"Yaakov ","last_name":"Beasley ","description":"Yaakov Beasley is the Tanakh Coordinator at Yeshivat Hesder Lev haTorah, the host of the TanachTalks podcast, and the author of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: Lights in the Valley (Maggid Press, 2020). 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Ezekiel begins the final chapter describing the upcoming destruction of Jerusalem with a date: the tenth of Tevet, during in the ninth year of the reign of Zedekiah, the date on which Nebuchadnezzar began the siege on Jerusalem (II Kings 25:1; Jeremiah 39:1; 52:4). By highlighting the date, Ezekiel demonstrates the veracity of his message. When the reports of the Babylonian army laying the siege reach the exiles, and they conclude that Ezekiel's prophecies describe the events in Judah perfectly, hopefully they will start to listen to his message, and that even those who doubted him will realize that \u201ca prophet was in their midst\u201d (2:5; 33:33).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel gives his listeners one final allegory to describe the imminent destruction \u2013 the preparation of a large pot to boil an animal. The first verses are pleasant, describing what appears to be the cooking of a delicious meat stew:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Set the pot \u2026 and also pour water into it. Gather its pieces to it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, fill it with the choice limbs. Take the choice of the flocks and also arrange the limbs under it; make it boil well so that all its limbs will also boil into its midst (v. 3-5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The commentator Moshe Alshich suggests that this section, the placing of the various cuts of meat and pouring water over the mixture, is meant to be understood positively. God gathered all the groups within the Jewish people together, pouring His spirit (the water) upon them. He arranged the ingredients so that the best taste would come forth - symbolizing God's hope that the Jewish people in the land of Israel would mature into the people that would serve as God's partner. However, Ezekiel reveals that the pot was either rusted or filthy on the inside, symbolizing the people's internal corruption. This meant that the food inside the pot was worthless. Therefore, says Ezekiel, the only way to purify the pot is to purge it by heat, so that the fire consumes everything within<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Radak understands the metaphor differently, emphasizing the addition of water to the stew and suggesting that Ezekiel is predicting the prolonged suffering and siege that awaited the people:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThis is what a person does \u2026 first he places it upon his lips, then fills it with water, and then places meat in it and lights a fire under it, until the meat is cooked. The placing of the pot upon the lips symbolizes the proximity of Nebuchadnezzer to Jerusalem \u2026 the pouring of the water into it foretells that the fire will not burn it quickly, for water prevents the meat from cooking quickly - without water, the fire causes it to roast quickly, but if there is water, the meat will cook slowly. Likewise, the siege lasted from the ninth year of Zedekiah until his twelfth year, with the inhabitants of the city slowly dying off from hunger and the plague and the sword.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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24:10 \u201c\u2018Pile on the wood, kindle the fire, let the meat be consumed, stir the broth, and let the bones be charred.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the poem, it seemed as if a proper meal were cooking in the pot. Now it emerges that the contents of the pot are to be cooked to death--and the meat boiling until there is nothing left, the bones entirely charred. As the next verse spells out, only the destruction of the unclean matter within the pot will cleanse it, which is to say, the defilement of the people of Judah can be eradicated only by fiery annihilation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. She\u2019s the pot and we\u2019re the meat<\/em>. 13 chapters ago (Ezek. 11), we learned that the residents of Jerusalem see the city as a pot protecting them, as a warm and tasty dish within it. But that\u2019s not the case at all.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Bordering on cannibalism<\/em>. The parable and its morale are quite indistinguishable here. And it\u2019s hard to ignore the very difficult visual picture that the prophecy describes.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. That\u2019s how to mourn<\/em>.Verses 16-17 take us in a sort of time tunnel to observe the mourning customs in the days of Ezekiel. Weeping, lamentation, uncovering of the head, removing shoes, covering the upper lip, and as good Jews do everywhere - a meal for the mourners that the neighbors cooked for them.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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