Forbidden to Mourn: The Siege Begins and Judgment Falls on the Gloating Nations | Ezekiel 24–26

Word for Word: The Bible · Sep 12, 2026 · 14m

Episode Overview

Today we read Ezekiel chapters 24 through 26, and the long-announced crisis finally arrives. Ezekiel is given a date—this exact day—on which the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem. The image given is a cooking pot left on the fire until its contents are consumed and its corrosion burned away.

Then the book turns painfully personal. God tells Ezekiel that the delight of his eyes, his wife, will be taken from him, and that he must not perform any of the public rituals of grief. She dies in the evening, and in the morning Ezekiel does as he was commanded. His unmourned…