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

"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

"You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

"'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. "'You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, 'You cursed God and the king!' Then carry him out, and stone him to death."

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person's innermost parts.

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

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

Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

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 Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans.

Then the princes said to the king, "Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt."

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

Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

They eat

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

They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don't those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

They commit

Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

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 cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

General references

You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.