Ezekiel 24:9

Therefore thus saith the Lord God, woe to the bloody city,.... See Gill on Eze 24:6,

I will even make the pile for fire great; a large pile of wood, a great quantity of fuel to maintain the fire,…

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…

Rising anew into tones of threatening the divine voice commands fuel to be heaped under the caldron, and to set it empty upon the coals, that its brass may glow in the fire and its rust be consumed.