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 Living Translation (NLT)People accuse others falsely and send them to their death. You are filled with idol worshipers and people who do obscene things.

Context of Ezekiel 22:9

7In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow. 8You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths. In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed; in you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness. 10In you men uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are set apart during their impurity. 11One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; and another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

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 bear false witness against your neighbor.
• Exodus 23:1“You shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
• Leviticus 19:16You shall not go about as a talebearer among your people; nor shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.
• 1 Kings 21:10and seat two men, scoundrels, before him to bear witness against him, saying, “You have blasphemed God and the king.” Then take him out, and stone him, that he may die.
• Psalms 50:20You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son.
• Psalms 101:5Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, Him I will destroy; The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart, Him I will not endure.
• Proverbs 10:18Whoever hides hatred has lying lips, And whoever spreads slander is a fool.
• Proverbs 18:8The words of a talebearer are like tasty trifles, And they go down into the inmost body.
• Proverbs 26:22The words of a talebearer are like tasty trifles, And they go down into the inmost body.
• Jeremiah 6:28They are all stubborn rebels, walking as slanderers. They are bronze and iron, They are all corrupters;
• Jeremiah 9:4“Everyone take heed to his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; For every brother will utterly supplant, And every neighbor will walk with slanderers.
• Jeremiah 37:13And 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 seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”
• Jeremiah 38:4Therefore the princes said to the king, “Please, let this man be put to death, for thus he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man does not seek the welfare of this people, but their harm.”
• Matthew 26:59Now the chief priests, the elders, and all the council sought false testimony against Jesus to put Him to death,
• Acts 6:11Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
• Acts 24:5For we have found this man a plague, a creator of dissension 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