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 neighbour.

Thou shalt not accept a false report; extend not thy hand to the wicked, to be an unrighteous witness.

Thou shalt not go about as a talebearer among thy people; thou shalt not stand up against the life of thy neighbour: I am Jehovah.

and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, and they shall bear witness against him saying, Thou didst curse God and the king; and carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:

Whoso secretly slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy; him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.

He that covereth hatred hath lying lips, and he that sendeth forth a slander is a fool.

The words of a talebearer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

They are all the most rebellious of rebels, going about with slander: they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.

Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend goeth about with slander.

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

And the princes said unto the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death; for why should he weaken the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking to them according to these words? for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

And the chief priests and the elders and the whole sanhedrim sought false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.

Then they suborned men, saying, We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.

For finding this man a pest, and moving sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the sect of the Nazaraeans;

And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, he who is called Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole habitable world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

They eat

he hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a woman in her separation,

And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;

See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the sacrifices in 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, behold, therefore, I also will recompense thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou shalt not commit this lewdness besides all thine abominations.

In thy filthiness is lewdness, for I have purged thee, and thou art not pure. Thou shalt no more be purged from thy filthiness, till I have satisfied my fury upon thee.

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 abomination and wantonness in Israel.

Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out; and blood toucheth blood.

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

They all practise adultery, as an oven heated by the baker: he ceaseth from stirring the fire after he hath kneaded 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.