KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Ezekiel 24:4–5
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Ezekiel 24:4
4Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
4Gather the pieces thereof into it, euen euery good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
Ezekiel 24:5
5Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
5‖Take the choice of the flocke, and burne also the bones vnder it, and make it boyle well, and let him seethe the bones of it therein.
- Or, heape.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 24:4
To collect, bring together, or assemble.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Indeed or precisely; adding emphasis to what follows.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The upper joint of the arm; figuratively, a place of bearing, support, or responsibility.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To make full, supply to capacity, satisfy, occupy, or complete what is lacking, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
The act of choosing; a selection; also selected, excellent, or preferred.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 24:5
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
The act of choosing; a selection; also selected, excellent, or preferred.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To consume, injure, heat, dry, or harden by fire or intense heat; also to be on fire.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To bubble or be violently agitated by heat, or to cook in boiling liquid.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
In a good, right, or healthy manner or condition; also a deep source of water, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To boil or be in a state of boiling.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 4
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Open the full verse study2Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
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Open the full verse study18Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
19Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
20As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
21Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
22As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the Lord have poured out my fury upon you.
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Open the full verse study2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
From verse 5
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Open the full verse study10And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
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Open the full verse study24¶ And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
25He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king’s person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
26So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
27And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
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Open the full verse study6Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
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Open the full verse study47And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
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Open the full verse study9Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
10Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
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Open the full verse study16I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
17And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
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Open the full verse study20¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
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Open the full verse study20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
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