We return to the image of the cauldron, and once again, as in Ezekiel 24:6 and Ezekiel 22:3 and Ezekiel 23:37, we have the words which Nahum (Nahum 3:1) had used of Nineveh applied to Jerusalem.
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Ezekiel 24:9
Ezekiel 24:9
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