Imminent Judgment (Ch. 24). 

        On the very day (ver. If; IIKings 25:1) that the Chaldean armies appeared before the walls of Jerusalem, Ezekiel re­ceived his final message of doom in which he saw Jerusalem as a great rusty caldron (so R.V). in which the contents are boiled up and thrown out, and then the caldron is burnt out in the flames.

        Later at an unspecified time, but quite possibly on the day when Jerusalem fell, God tells Ezekiel that his wife is to die, but he is not to mourn her (ver, 15ff). When she dies the same evening the people ask Ezekiel why he does not mourn. He tells them that this is but a picture of what will happen when the news of Jerusalem’s fall comes to them.