24:6-8
“The pot now encrusted”. Food gets encrusted on the sides of pots, and if it is washed away and cleaned properly that’s ok, but with Jerusalem the city had become so encrusted with evil that it could not be cleaned. Taking the meat out piece by piece probably refers to the people going into exile. There would be no favouritism, whichever a person came they would be deported. “The blood she shed is in her midst”. The sin and the child sacrifice was so ingrained within her. God’s wrath will be poured out on her in the open.
24:9-14
The people had piled wood high when they made their pyres for the children to be sacrificed on. Now the Lord would pile the wood high, and the fire in the city would be kindled. This would be a very thorough job. Once empty, the pot would be put on the fire, so it would glow with the heat. Even so, the impurities would not be removed. God had given the people many chances. If it was possible for a man to change his ways, to save himself, then it would have happened. But man cannot save himself. The impurities were lewdness. Only the wrath of God could get rid of the deposit. Verse 14 sums up the whole situation, the situation that the people were so loath to face up to, that all of us are so reluctant to face up to. We are guilty and there is nothing we can do about it.
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