Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Show that obstinate household a parable, and speak unto them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Get thee a pot, set it on, and pour water into it:
New American Standard Bible
Speak a
“Put on the
King James Version
And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:
Holman Bible
Now speak a parable
put it on,
and then pour water into it!
International Standard Version
So compose a parable for the rebellious house. Tell them, "This is what the Lord God says: "Prepare your pot for boiling! Set it in place. Fill it up with water, too.
A Conservative Version
And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, Thus says lord LORD: Set on the caldron. Set it on, and also pour water into it.
American Standard Version
And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:
Amplified
Speak a parable against the rebellious house [of Judah] and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
Bible in Basic English
And make a comparison for this uncontrolled people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Put on the cooking-pot, put it on the fire and put water in it:
Darby Translation
And propose a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Set on the pot, set it on, and also pour water into it.
Julia Smith Translation
And use a parable against the house of contradiction and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Set on the pot, set on, and also pour water into it:
King James 2000
And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:
Lexham Expanded Bible
And {deliver a proverb} to {the rebellious house}, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Place the pot! Place [it] and also pour water into it.
Modern King James verseion
And speak a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Set on a pot; set it on, and also pour water into it.
NET Bible
Recite a proverb to this rebellious house and say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'Set on the pot, set it on, pour water in it too;
New Heart English Bible
Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:
The Emphasized Bible
Put thou forth therefore, against the perverse house a parable, and say unto them Thus saith My Lord, Yahweh: Sot on the caldron set it on, Moreover also pour into it water:
Webster
And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:
World English Bible
Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:
Youngs Literal Translation
and use unto the rebellious house a simile, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: To set on the pot, to set it on, and also to pour into it water,
Themes
Ezekiel » Teaches by pantomime » Employs a boiling pot to symbolize the destruction of jerusalem
Parables » Of the old testament » Of the prophets
Symbols and similitudes » Cooking
Symbols and similitudes » Boiling pot
Truth » Illustrated in parables of the old testament » Of the prophets
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 24:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Boiling Pot And The Death Of Ezekiel's Wife
2 "O thou son of man, write up the name of this day; yea, even the hour of this present day when the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem. 3 Show that obstinate household a parable, and speak unto them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Get thee a pot, set it on, and pour water into it: 4 put all the pieces together in it, all the good pieces: the loin and the shoulder, and fill it with the best bones.
Cross References
Ezekiel 11:3
saying, 'Tush, there is no destruction at hand, let us build houses: this Jerusalem is the cauldron, and we be the flesh.'
Ezekiel 17:2
"Thou son of man, put forth a dark speaking and a parable unto the house of Israel,
Ezekiel 20:49
Then said I, "O LORD, they will say of me, 'Tush, they are but fables that he telleth.'"
Isaiah 1:2
Hear O heaven, and hearken O earth, for the LORD hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they are fallen away from me.
Ezekiel 2:3
And he said, "Behold, thou son of man: I will send thee to the children of Israel, to those renegades and obstinate people - for they have taken part against me, and are run away from me: both they and their forefathers unto this day.
Ezekiel 2:6
"Therefore, thou son of man, fear them not; neither be afraid of their words: for they shall rebel against thee, and despise thee. Yea, thou shalt dwell among scorpions. But fear not their words, be not abashed at their looks: for it is a froward household.
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in similitudes, and will speak forth things which have been kept secret from the beginning of the world;
Isaiah 30:1
Alas, for those disobedient children," sayeth the LORD, "that will take counsel without me. Alas, that they will take a secret advice, and not out of my spirit: and therefore add they sin unto sin.
Isaiah 30:9
For it is an obstinate people, unfaithful children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD.
Ezekiel 2:8
Therefore, thou son of man, obey thou all things, that I say unto thee, and be not thou stiffnecked, like as they are a stiffnecked household. Open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee."
Ezekiel 24:6
With that, said the LORD God on this manner: Woe be unto the bloody city of the pot, where upon the rustiness hangeth, and is not yet scoured away. Take out the pieces that are in it, one after another: there need no lots be cast therefore,
Isaiah 63:10
But after they provoked him to wrath and vexed his holy mind, he was their enemy, and fought against them himself.
Jeremiah 1:13
It happened afterward, that the LORD spake to me again, and said, "What seest thou? And I said: I do see a seething pot, looking out of the north hitherward."
Jeremiah 50:13-14
No man shall be able to dwell there, for the fear of the LORD, but she shall be whole desolate. All they that go by Babylon, shall stand still, and be abashed, and shall wonder at all her plagues.
Ezekiel 3:9
so that thy forehead shall be harder than an Adamant or flint stone: that thou mayest fear them the less, and be less afraid of them, for they are a froward household."
Ezekiel 11:7
Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: The slain men that ye have laid on the ground in this city, are the flesh, and this city is the cauldron: But I will bring you out of it.
Ezekiel 11:11
This city shall not be your cauldron, neither shall ye be the flesh therein: but in the coasts of Israel will I punish you,
Ezekiel 12:2
"Thou son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a froward household: which have eyes to see, and yet see not; ears have they to hear, and yet hear they not. For they are an obstinate household.
Ezekiel 12:25
For it is I, the LORD, that speak it: and whatsoever I, the LORD, speak, it shall be performed, and not be slacken in coming. Yea even in your days, O ye froward household, will I devise something and bring it to pass, sayeth the LORD God.'"
Ezekiel 17:12
"Speak to that froward household, 'Know ye not, what these things do signify?' Tell them, 'Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king and his princes, and led them to Babylon.
Ezekiel 19:2-14
and say, "Wherefore lay thy mother, that lioness, among the lions, and nourished her young ones among the lion's whelps?
Micah 2:4
In that day shall this term be used, and a mourning shall be made over you on this manner, "We be utterly desolate, the portion of my people is translated. When will he part unto us the land, that he hath taken from us?"
Mark 12:12
And they went about to take him, but they feared the people. For they perceived that he spake that similitude against them. And they left him and went their way.
Luke 8:10
And he said, "Unto you is it given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God: but to others in similitudes, that when they see, they should not see, and when they hear they should not understand.
Acts 7:51
"Ye stiffnecked and of uncircumcised hearts and ears: ye have always resisted the holy ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.