Ezekiel 24:7

Ezekiel 24:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
• New International Version (NIV)“ ‘For the blood she shed is in her midst: She poured it on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground, where the dust would cover it.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For her blood is in her midst; She set it on top of a rock; She did not pour it on the ground, To cover it with dust.
• New Living Translation (NLT)For the blood of her murders is splashed on the rocks. It isn’t even spilled on the ground, where the dust could cover it!

Context of Ezekiel 24:7

5Take the choicest one of the flock; pile the logs under it; boil it well; seethe also its bones in it. 6"Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice. For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust. 8To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered. 9Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.

Ezekiel 24:7 word by word

כִּ֤י דָמָהּ֙ בְּתוֹכָ֣הּ הָיָ֔ה עַל־צְחִ֥יחַ סֶ֖לַע שָׂמָ֑תְהוּ לֹ֤א שְׁפָכַ֙תְהוּ֙ עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ לְכַסּ֥וֹת עָלָ֖יו עָפָֽר׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For her bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818
• is in the midstתָּ֫וֶךְtâvek · midstH8432
• of her; she setשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: putH7760
• it upon the topצְחִיחַtsechîyach · bareH6706
• of a rockסֶ֫לַעsela‛ · cragH5553
• she pouredשָׁפַךְshâphak · to pour: pourH8210
• it not upon the groundאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: soilH776
• to coverכָּסָהkâsâh · to coverH3680
• it with dustעָפָר‛âphâr · dustH6083

Cross-references for Ezekiel 24:7

• 1 Kings 21:19And you shall say to him, 'Thus says the Lord, "Have you killed and also taken possession?"' And you shall say to him, 'Thus says the Lord: "In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood."'"
• Isaiah 3:9For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
• Jeremiah 2:34Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things
• Jeremiah 6:15Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the Lord.
• Leviticus 17:13"Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.
• Deuteronomy 12:16Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.
• Job 16:18"O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.
• Isaiah 26:21For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 24:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7For her blood is in the midst of her - She gloried in her idol sacrifices; she offered them upon a rock, where the blood should remain evident; and she poured none upon the ground to cover it with dust, in horror of that moral evil that required the blood of an innocent creature to be shed, in order to the atonement of the offender's guilt. To "cover the blood of the victim," was a command of the law, Leviticus 17:13; Deuteronomy 12:24.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7The top of a rock - The blood was poured upon a naked, dry, rock where it could not be absorbed or unnoticed.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-8The cooking pot was too dirty to clean. Jerusalem was full of blood that she had shed and left uncovered. The Old Testament required that people cover the blood of animals killed for meat with earth (Leviticus 17:13). By leaving the blood of innocent victims uncovered, Jerusalem was doubly guilty. Her own blood would rightly be splashed on the rocks (compare Psalm 137:8–9).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. upon the top of a rock--or, "the dry, bare, exposed rock," so as to be conspicuous to all. Blood poured on a rock is not so soon absorbed as blood poured on the earth. The law ordered the blood even of a beast or fowl to be "covered with the dust" (Le 17:13); but Jerusalem was so shameless as to be at no pains to cover up the blood of innocent men slain in her. Blood, as the consummation of all sin, presupposes every other form of guilt.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Ezekiel 24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings