The fifth word of judgment. The furnace. In the besieged city the people will be tried and purged (Ezekiel 22:18).

Dross …

Into the midst of Jerusalem. —Jerusalem is represented as the refining pot into which the people were to be cast, because this was…

Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you are all become dross King, princes, nobles, prophets, priests, as well as t…

Israel, compared with other nations, had been like the gold and silver compared with baser metals. But they were now like the refuse that is consum…