# General Information: Yahweh continues telling Ezekiel about a cooking pot that represents Jerusalem, continuing through Ezekiel 24:14. # scorch to burn the surface of something # so its uncleanness within it will be melted, its corrosion consumed "to melt the uncleanness within it and to consume its corrosion" # uncleanness A person whom God considers spiritually unacceptable or defiled is spoken of as if the person were physically unclean. # corrosion rust # consumed burned away