King James Version
Ezekiel 24:10 in the King James Version says “Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 24 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.”
Ezekiel 24:10 · KJV
That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“consume”
H8552to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
“the flesh”
H1320flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man
“it well”
H4841abstractly, a seasoning (with spicery); concretely, an unguentkettle (for preparing spiced oil)
“and let the bones”
H6106a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e., (as pron.) selfsame
“be burned”
H2787to glow, i.e., literally (to melt, burn, dry up) or figuratively (to show or incite passion)
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