Ezekiel 22:9

Ezekiel 22:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)In you are slanderers who are bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts.
• English Standard Version (ESV)There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst.
• New King James Version (NKJV)In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed; in you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness.

Context of Ezekiel 22:9

7They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you. 8You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths! Slanderous men shed blood within you. Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; they commit obscene acts among you. 10They have sex with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you. 11One commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister – his father’s daughter – within you.

Ezekiel 22:9 word by word

אַנְשֵׁ֥י רָכִ֛יל הָ֥יוּ בָ֖ךְ לְמַ֣עַן שְׁפָךְ־דָּ֑ם וְאֶל־הֶֽהָרִים֙ אָ֣כְלוּ בָ֔ךְ זִמָּ֖ה עָשׂ֥וּ בְתוֹכֵֽךְ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• In thee are menאֱנוֹשׁ'ĕnôsh · humanH582
• that carry talesרָכִילrâkîyl · slanderH7400
• to shedשָׁפַךְshâphak · to pour: killH8210
• bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818
• and in thee they eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• upon the mountainsהַרhar · mountain: mountH2022
• in the midstתָּ֫וֶךְtâvek · midstH8432
• of thee they commitעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• lewdnessזִמָּהzimmâh zammâh · wickednessH2154

Cross-references for Ezekiel 22:9

• Exodus 20:16“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
• Exodus 23:1“You must not give a false report. Do not make common cause with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
• Leviticus 19:16You must not go about as a slanderer among your people. You must not stand idly by when your neighbor’s life is at stake. I am the Lord.
• 1 Kings 21:10Also seat two villains opposite him and have them testify, ‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
• Psalms 50:20You plot against your brother; you slander your own brother.
• Psalms 101:5I will destroy anyone who slanders his neighbor in secret. I will not tolerate anyone who has a cocky demeanor and an arrogant attitude.
• Proverbs 10:18The one who conceals hatred utters lies, and the one who spreads slander is certainly a fool.
• Proverbs 18:8The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down into the person’s innermost being.
• Proverbs 26:22The words of a gossip are like delicious morsels; they go down into a person’s innermost being.
• Jeremiah 6:28I reported, “All of them are the most stubborn of rebels! They are as hard as bronze or iron. They go about telling lies. They all deal corruptly.
• Jeremiah 9:4Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him.
• Jeremiah 37:13But he only got as far as the Benjamin Gate. There an officer in charge of the guards named Irijah, who was the son of Shelemiah and the grandson of Hananiah, stopped him. He seized Jeremiah and said, “You are deserting to the Babylonians!”
• Jeremiah 38:4So these officials said to the king, “This man must be put to death. For he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in the city as well as all the other people there by these things he is saying. This man is not seeking to help these people but is trying to harm them.”
• Matthew 26:59The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were trying to find false testimony against Jesus so that they could put him to death.
• Acts 6:11Then they secretly instigated some men to say, “We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
• Acts 24:5For we have found this man to be a troublemaker, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 22:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9In thee are men that carry tales - Witnesses that will swear any thing, even where life is concerned. They eat upon the mountains - Sacrifice to idols, and celebrate their festivals.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-12The charges against the people of Judah and their leaders came from God's law, especially from Leviticus 18–20; 25:1–55. Israel's many sins showed a failure to honor and trust the Lord and his commands. This unfaithfulness to their covenant with the Lord could lead to only one outcome: The people of Israel would face the covenant curses (Deuteronomy 8:19–20; 28:15–68).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. men that carry tales--informers, who by misrepresentations cause innocent blood to be shed (Le 19:16). Literally, "one who goes to and fro as a merchant."Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 22:9

• Adultery
• Crime
• Falsehood
• Gossip
• Homicide
• Idolatry
• Jerusalem
• Slander

In the dictionaries

• Endure
• Furnace
• Gain
• Gap
• Raven
• Tale
• Lewd; Lewdness
• Slander

Commentaries on Ezekiel 22

• 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
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings