King James Version
Ezekiel 24:9 in the King James Version says “Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 24 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.”
Ezekiel 24:9 · KJV
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner
properly, like this, i.e., by implication, (of manner) thus (or so); also (of place) here (or hither); or (of time) now
“city”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
“to the bloody”
H1818blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“for fire great”
H1431to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride)
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