Pile on the logs and kindle the fire; cook the meat well and mix in the spices; let the bones be burned.
God knew Jerusalem was being sieged that very day, though Ezekiel sat in Babylon hundreds of miles away. When it came to pass exactly as the prophet announced, the people would have to admit he spoke truly from Heaven; his predictions, like his news, came from the same source.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 24:1-14
Heap on wood, kindle the fire,.... This is said either to the prophet, to do this in an emblematic way; or to the Chaldean army, to prepare for the siege, encompass the city, begin their attacks, and throw in their stones out of their slings and engines, and arrows from their bows: consume the flesh; not entirely, since it is afterwards to be spiced; but...
spice it well--that the meat may be the more palatable, that is, I will make the foe delight in its destruction as much as one delights in well-seasoned, savory meat. GROTIUS, needlessly departing from the obvious sense, translates, "Let it be boiled down to a compound."