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Ezekiel 22:9 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 22 · verse 9
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.Ezekiel 22:9 · King James Version
Ezekiel 22:9 in context
7In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
8Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
9In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
10In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
11And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- mountainshara mountain or range of hillsH2022 →
- commitʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- talesrâkîyla scandal-mongerH7400 →
- blooddâmblood of man or an animalH1818 →
- midsttâveka bisectionH8432 →
- shedshâphakto spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metalH8210 →
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In these verses the prophet by a commission from Heaven sits as a judge upon the bench, and Jerusalem is made to hold up her hand as a prisoner at the bar; and, if prophets were set over other nations, much more over God's nation, Jer 1:10. This prophet is authorized to judge the bloody city, the city of bloods.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16