Discovery BoxEzekiel 4:12 
Context4:12 And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.” 1
Ezekiel 8:18
Context8:18 Therefore I will act with fury! My eye will not pity them nor will I spare 2 them. When they have shouted in my ears, I will not listen to them.”
Ezekiel 11:3
Context11:3 They say, 3 ‘The time is not near to build houses; 4 the city 5 is a cooking pot 6 and we are the meat in it.’
Ezekiel 13:15
Context13:15 I will vent my rage against the wall, and against those who coated it with whitewash. Then I will say to you, “The wall is no more and those who whitewashed it are no more –
Ezekiel 23:47
Context23:47 That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses. 7
1 sn Human waste was to remain outside the camp of the Israelites according to Deut 23:15.
2 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.
3 tn The Hebrew verb may mean “think” in this context. This content of what they say (or think) represents their point of view.
4 sn The expression build houses may mean “establish families” (Deut 25:9; Ruth 4:11; Prov 24:27).
5 tn Heb “she” or “it”; the feminine pronoun refers here to Jerusalem.
6 sn Jerusalem is also compared to a pot in Ezek 24:3-8. The siege of the city is pictured as heating up the pot.
7 tn The Hebrew text adds “with fire.”
