Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.

Bible References

The choice

Ezekiel 20:47
and say to the forest of the Negev, ‘Hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am about to kindle a fire in you, and it will devour every one of your green trees, as well as every one of your dry trees. The blazing flame will not be quenched and the whole surface from the south to the north will be burned by it.
Ezekiel 34:16
“I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bandage the crippled, and strengthen the weak and the sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong [who have become hard-hearted and perverse]. I will feed them with judgment and punishment.
Jeremiah 39:6
Then at Riblah the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; the king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.
Jeremiah 52:10
The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed all the princes of Judah at Riblah.
Revelation 19:20
And the beast (Antichrist) was seized and overpowered, and with him the false prophet who, in his presence, had performed [amazing] signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were hurled alive into the lake of fire which blazes with brimstone.

Burn

Ezekiel 24:9

‘Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
“Woe to the bloody city!
I will also make the pile [of wood] high.