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In chapter 24:1-14 the boiling caldron is symbolic of the destruction of [[Jerusalem]]. Verses 15-27 record the [[death]] of [[Ezekiel]] 's wife. She died the day the siege of [[Jerusalem]] began and [[God]] commanded [[Ezekiel]] not to mourn over her. As [[death]] dissolved the union between the [[prophet]] and his beloved wife, so the relationship between the [[Lord]] and [[Jerusalem]] was to be dissolved so that destruction would follow. This is an object lesson to the exiles (verses 19-24). The day the news of [[Jerusalem]]'s destruction arrived, [[Ezekiel]] 's tongue would be loosed for a new message (verses 25-27).