Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 11:7

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD , your slain, whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the cauldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

Your murthers are the cause of my severity, and such sins first or last are surely punisht.

See verse 6. Or your slain because when they might, and would have saved their Life by a seasonable submission, you perswaded them to an obstinate opposition against the Chaldeans to their destruction.

Or placed (as the word bears) 'tis not unlike that they who perswaded all to stay, did provide or at least help, as many as did stay, to habitations, and placed them in Houses or Lodgings.

The pieces which are to be cast into the Cauldron, and here be punished.

That is the mighty, eternal, and just God.

Not in mercy but in wrath by the conquering hand of Babylon, I will draw you out to greater torment.

Marginal references: Chap. 24.3, 6, 9, 21. Mich. 3.5.