Ezekiel 22:9
Tale-bearers [also] were within thee, in order to shed blood; and upon the mountains did they eat within thee; incest did they commit in the midst of thee.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
8My holy things thou didst despise, and my sabbaths thou didst profane.
Cross References
Exodus 20:16Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Leviticus 19:16Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; thou shalt not stand [idly] by the blood of thy neighbor: I am the Lord.
1 Samuel 24:10Behold, this day thy eyes have seen how that the Lord had delivered thee today into my hand in the cave, and some one said that I should kill thee: but my soul felt compassion for thee: and I said, I will not stretch forth my hand against my Lord; because he is the anointed of the Lord.
Psalms 50:20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; against thy own mother's son thou utterest slander.
Psalms 106:28And they joined themselves unto Ba'al-pe'or, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Proverbs 18:8The words of a whisperer are as wounds, and they go down indeed into the innermost parts of the body.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 22:2-17
The Sins of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 591.) 1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. 3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God , The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. 4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused… Read the whole commentary →