Ezekiel 24:9

Ezekiel 24:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
• New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the wood high.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
• New King James Version (NKJV)‘Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the bloody city! I too will make the pyre great.

Context of Ezekiel 24:9

7You can see the blood of people that men killed in the city. It lies on the rocks where everyone can see it. Those murderers did not leave the blood on the ground, where dirt would hide it. 8I have put the blood on the rocks where everyone can see it. Nothing will be able to hide it. When I see it, I am very angry. I will punish the people of that city as they deserve. So this is what the Almighty Lord says: Terrible trouble will come to the city that is full of murderers! I will put more wood on the fire to destroy it. 10Yes, make a big heap of wood. Make the fire burn hot! Cook the meat well! Mix in some spices! Let the bones burn. 11Then put the empty pot on the coals of the fire. Make the pot very hot, so that its metal is bright red. Burn all the dirt to remove it. Make the pot clean again!

Ezekiel 24:9 word by word

לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה א֖וֹי עִ֣יר הַדָּמִ֑ים גַּם־אֲנִ֖י אַגְדִּ֥יל הַמְּדוּרָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Therefore thus saithאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• the Lordאֲדֹנָי'ădônây · LordH136
• Godיְהֹוִהyehôvih · YHWH/GodH3069
• Woeאוֹי'ôy · woe!H188
• to the bloodyדָּםdâm · bloodH1818
• cityעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• I will even make the pileמְדוּרָהmedûrâh medûrâh · pileH4071
• for fire greatגָּדַלgâdal · to magnifyH1431

Cross-references for Ezekiel 24:9

• Ezekiel 24:6This is what the Almighty Lord says: Terrible trouble will come to the city that is full of murderers! It is like a pot that has become dirty. Nobody has tried to clean it. Take out each piece of meat, one by one. No piece is special.
• Nahum 3:1Terrible things will happen to you, Nineveh. Your people are murderers and they love to tell lies. The city is full of valuable things that they have taken from other people.
• Habakkuk 2:12It will be very bad for anyone who kills people so that he can build a city for himself. It will be bad for anyone who does wicked things to make his town great.
• Luke 13:34Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Your people have killed God's prophets. And they have thrown stones to kill other people that God has sent to you. Many times, I have wanted to bring all of your people near to me. A female bird covers her babies with her body to make them safe. But you would not let me keep you from danger like that.
• Revelation 14:20The winepress was outside the city. When God stamped on the grapes, the juice that came out of the winepress was blood. The river of blood was very deep. It rose as high as horses' necks and it went as far as 300 kilometres.
• Revelation 16:6They have killed your people and your prophets. They have caused your servants to bleed and to die. So now you have given these bad people blood to drink. That is what ought to happen to them. It is right.’
• Ezekiel 22:19So this is what the Lord God says: All of you have become like useless dirt. So listen to me! I will bring you all together into the middle of Jerusalem.
• Isaiah 30:33The Lord has already prepared a place to burn the bodies of the dead people. It is ready for the king of Assyria! There is a place for him that is deep and wide. There is plenty of wood for the fire. The Lord's breath will be like a stream of hot sulphur. He will breathe out on the heap of wood and the fire will burn!
• Isaiah 31:9Their strongest soldiers will run away because they are afraid. The officers of their army will be afraid when they see the Lord's battle flag.’ That is what the Lord says. His fire is in Zion. Yes, his hot oven is in Jerusalem.
• 2 Thessalonians 1:8and with a very hot fire. He will punish those people who do not know God. Yes, he will punish those people who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus.
• 2 Peter 3:7But God has also spoken his word to say what will happen to the world in a future time. The sky and the earth that we see now will continue for a time. But God is keeping them until the day when he will destroy them with fire. On that day he will judge all people. He will destroy the people who have turned away from him.
• Jude 1:7Also, remember what happened to the cities called Sodom and Gomorrah, and the other cities that were near them. Like those bad angels, the people who lived in those places were also doing evil things. They were having sex with people who were not their husbands or their wives. They liked to have sex in other ways that are not right. God destroyed their cities. He has punished them with fire that never stops burning. That is an example of what will happen to wicked people like them.
• Revelation 21:8But I will punish other people. They include: people who are afraid of trouble; people who do not believe in Jesus; people who do disgusting things; people who murder other people; people who have sex in a wrong way; people who use magic to hurt people; people who worship idols; people who tell lies. All these people will go into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur. That is the second death for people.’

Commentaries on Ezekiel 24:9

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-12God said he would make Jerusalem like a red-hot cooking pot, as if it were in a refiner's furnace. However, even this fire would not remove its corruption, because Jerusalem's impurity was permanent.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. the pile for fire--the hostile materials for the city's destruction.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Ezekiel 24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings