Ezekiel 4:3

4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan ¹  and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign ²  for the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 13:14

13:14 I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it, ³  and you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 24:6

24:6 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says:

Woe to the city of bloodshed,

the pot whose rot ⁴  is in it,

whose rot has not been removed ⁵  from it!

Empty it piece by piece.

No lot has fallen on it. ⁶ 

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¹ tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.

² tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.

³ tn Or “within it,” referring to the city of Jerusalem.

⁴ tn Or “rust.”

⁵ tn Heb “has not gone out.”

⁶ tn Here “lot” may refer to the decision made by casting lots; it is not chosen at all.