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A Cooking Pot

24 Nine years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the Lord spoke to me on the tenth day of the tenth month.[a] He said:

(A) Ezekiel, son of man, write down today's date, because the king of Babylonia has just begun attacking the city of Jerusalem. Then tell my rebellious people:

“Pour water in a cooking pot
    and set it over a fire.
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Footnotes

  1. 24.1 Nine years … tenth month: Probably January of 588 b.c.

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