Ezekiel 22:9
In you are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in you they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8You have despised mine holy things, and have profaned my sabbaths.
Cross References
Exodus 20:16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
Leviticus 19:16You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you stand against the blood of your neighbour; I am the LORD.
1 Samuel 24:10Behold, this day yours eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered you to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill you: but mine eye spared you; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD's anointed.
Psalms 50:20You sit and speak against your brother; you slander yours own mother's son.
Psalms 106:28They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Proverbs 18:8The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
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 →