Ezekiel 24:11

“Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, &c.] The city, when emptied of its inhabitants and substance, like a pot that is boiled over, and all in it boiled away, or taken out; burn it with fire, as the city of Jerusalem when taken and plundered was: that the brass of it may be hot, and burn; as brass will when set on coals: or, “the bottom of it”f377; so Ben Melech observes, from the Misnah, that the lower part or bottom of a pot, cauldron, or furnace, is called the brass of it; and so the sense is, make the fire burn so fierce as to burn the bottom of the pot; or the canker and rust of it, which the following words explain: and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum…”

“set it empty . . . that . . . brass . . . may burn, . . . that . . . scum . . . may be consumed--Even the consumption of the contents is not enough; the caldron itself which is infected by the poisonous scum must be destroyed, that is, the city itself must be destroyed, not merely the inhabitants, just as the very house infected with leprosy was to be destroyed (Lev 14:34-45).”

“The filthiness - A type of the unreformed sinfulness of the city. Molten - That their wickedness may be taken away with their persons, and city. Ezekiel 24:12”

“set it: Jer 21:10, Jer 32:29, Jer 37:10, Jer 38:18, Jer 39:8, Jer 52:13 that the filthiness: Eze 20:38, Eze 22:15-23, Eze 23:26, Eze 23:27, Eze 23:47, Eze 23:48, Eze 36:25; Isa 1:25, Isa 4:4, Isa 27:9; Mic 5:11-14; Zac 13:1, Zac 13:2, Zac 13:8, Zac 13:9; Mal 4:1; Mat 3:12; Co1 3:12, Co1 3:13; The pot was Jerusalem; the flesh, the inhabitants in general: every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, Zedekiah, his family, and princes; the bones, the soldiers; the fire and water, the calamities they were to suffer; and the setting on of the pot, the commencement of the siege. Ezekiel 24:12”