Ezekiel 24:5

Take the choice of the flock,.... King, princes, nobles, magistrates, priests and rulers of the people:

and burn also the bones under it: or, "put a pile of bones under it" (u); the bones of them…

Burn - Rather, as in margin; the bones would serve for fuel.

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…

We have here,

I. The notice God gives to Ezekiel in Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar's laying siege to Jerusalem, just at the time when he was doing it (Eze 24:2): "Son of man, take notice, the king of…

burn also the bones a pile also of wood under it. If "pile" could be read as a verb, and pile also wood, the construction would be easier. In spite of the versions woodmust be substituted for…