'Boiling' in the Bible
who say, ‘Is not the time near to build houses? This city is [secure just like] the pot and we are the meat [in it].’
Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “Your dead whom you have laid in the midst of your city are the meat and this city is the pot; but I shall force you out of [the security of] it.
This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be meat [safe] in it, but I will judge you at the border of Israel.
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.
Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it.
Put on much wood, heating up the fire, boiling the flesh well, and making the soup thick, and let the bones be burned.
about which he said, "This is where the priests will be boiling the guilt and sin offerings and baking the grain offerings so they don't bring them through the outer courtyard, thus diminishing the people's holiness."
And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.
And he saith unto me, 'These are the houses of those boiling where the ministrants of the house boil the sacrifice of the people.'