Ezekiel 22:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Men that carry tales

They eat

Ezekiel 18:6

Psalm 106:28

1 Corinthians 10:18

They commit

General references

Ezekiel 11:6

Bible References

Men that carry tales

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am Jehovah.

and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst curse God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him to death.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I destroy: Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.

He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; And he that uttereth a slander is a fool.

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts.

They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.

Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou art falling away to the Chaldeans.

Then the princes said unto the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death; forasmuch as he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.

For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

They eat

and hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbor's wife, neither hath come near to a woman in her impurity,

They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Behold Israel after the flesh: have not they that eat the sacrifices communion with the altar?

They commit

Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness with all thine abominations.

In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed thee and thou wast not cleansed, thou shalt not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest.

And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they have committed lewdness.

They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir the fire , from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.

General references

Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.