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Ezekiel 22:10

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In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

In thee have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her impurity.

KJV

In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

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This verse in Ezekiel 22

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood

on Ezekiel 22:6-12

The list runs through every rank and relation the covenant law protected. Wesley reads the list as a point by point breach of the commandments. Gill notes the closing count, usury and extortion practiced on neighbours, and hast forgotten me, ties every social sin back to the same forgetting.

This site's exposition

uncovered the nakedness of their fathers

Leviticus 18:8 forbids a man to uncover his father's wife, and 18:19 forbids approaching a woman in her impurity. Barnes reads the whole list as the sins of the Canaanites that Leviticus 18 names. The land had vomited out its first people for them.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter 22, Verses 1 onwards) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: And you, son of man, do you not judge the city of blood, and show her all her abominations? And say: Thus says the Lord God: The city that sheds blood within herself, so that her time may come, and that has made idols against herself to defile herself. In your blood that was shed, you have sinned, and you have defiled yourself with your idols that you have made.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

) and is a sin not to be named among Christians without the utmost detestation ( 1 Cor. v. 1 ), and was made a capital crime by the law of Moses, Lev. xx. The time to refrain from embracing has not been observed ( Eccles. iii. 6 ), for they have humbled her that was set apart for her pollution.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

In thee have they discovered - They are guilty of the most abominable incest and unnatural lust. On thee have they humbled - In their unholy and unnatural connexions, they have not abstained from those set apart because of their infirmities. The catalogue of crimes that follow is too plain to require comment.
Set apart for pollution - Or, “unclean by reason of impurity” Lev 12:2.

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • עֶרְוַת־[the] nakedness of

    ʾervat-H6172 →54 times

  • אָ֖בa father

    ʾavH1 →1212 times

  • גִּלָּה־someone has uncovered

    gilah-H1540 →186 times

  • בָ֑ךְin you

    vakh

  • טְמֵאַ֥ת[the] [woman] unclean of

    temeatH2931 →88 times

  • הַנִּדָּ֖הthe menstruation

    hanidahH5079 →29 times

  • עִנּוּ־they have humiliated

    ʾinu-H6031 →

  • בָֽךְ׃in you

    vakh

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

15 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Leviticus 18:19You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.4 worksLeviticus 18:7You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.4 worksLeviticus 20:11If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.3 worksEzekiel 18:6He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.3 works1 Chronicles 5:1These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. So he is not reckoned according to birthright.2 worksGenesis 49:4Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.2 works
The other 9 cross-references, with their words ▾
Genesis 35:22While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:2 worksAmos 2:7They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.2 worksLeviticus 20:18If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.2 worksDeuteronomy 27:20‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’2 works2 Samuel 16:21–22Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”2 works1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.2 worksDeuteronomy 27:23‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’2 worksLeviticus 15:24If a man lies with her and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies will become unclean.2 worksLeviticus 18:8You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 18:6

    He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 18:15

      He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

    • Deuteronomy 4:19

      When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to…

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 5:1

    These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. So…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 35:22

      While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

    • Genesis 48:15–22

      Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,

    • Genesis 29:32

      And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”

    • Genesis 49:3–4

      Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.

  • Through

    Leviticus 18:19

    You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 20:18

      If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them…

    • Leviticus 15:24

      If a man lies with her and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies will become unclean.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel: the study guide →Read Ezekiel 22 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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