Ezekiel 11:6
in Ezekiel 11You have multiplied those you killed in this city and filled its streets with the dead.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
KJV
Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
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This verse in Ezekiel 11
Commentary
8 notes on this verseYe - Many murders have you committed yourselves, and you are accountable to God for all those whom the Chaldeans have slain, seeing you persuaded them, thus obstinately to stand out.
This site's exposition
the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me
on Ezekiel 11:5-7
The Spirit falls on Ezekiel, and the Lord answers the leaders’ boast. “The slain you have laid within this city are the meat, and the city is the pot; but I will remove you from it.” The shelter they claimed is reversed, and their proverb is quoted to refute itself.
This site's exposition
filled its streets with the dead
The LORD charges the leaders with the dead in the streets. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown take these slain as the victims of the leaders' wicked counsels. Citing 7:23, they add that blood shed inside the city brought a bloody enemy from outside.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 2 onwards) And behold, at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men, and in their midst I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the princes of the people. And he said to me, Son of man, these men devise iniquity and give wicked counsel in this city, saying, 'The houses have been recently built. This is the pot, but we are the meat.' Therefore, prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Note, Those who are either unrighteous or imprudent in beginning or carrying on a war bring upon themselves a great deal of the guilt of blood; and those who are slain in the battles or sieges which they, by such a reasonable peace as the war aimed at, might have prevented, will be called their slain. Now these slain are the only flesh that shall be left in this caldron,
Ye have multiplied your slain in this city,....
A message of comfort to those who were carried captives into Babylon and were there in the depth of despondency, thinking they should never rise. And, as the former are assured that God has judgments in store for them notwithstanding their present security, so the later are assured that God has mercy in store for them notwithstanding their present distress,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
your slain--those on whom you have brought ruin by your wicked counsels. Bloody crimes within the city brought on it a bloody foe from without (Eze 7:23, 24).
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The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הִרְבֵּיתֶ֥ם | hirbeitem | you have multiplied | H7235 → | 227 times |
| חַלְלֵיכֶ֖ם | chaleikhem | slain [ones] your | H2491 → | 94 times |
| בָּעִ֣יר | bair | in the city | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| הַזֹּ֑את | hazot | <the> this | H2063 → | 603 times |
| וּמִלֵּאתֶ֥ם | umiletem | and you have filled | H4390 → | 249 times |
| חוּצֹתֶ֖יהָ | chutzoteiha | streets its | H2351 → | 164 times |
| חָלָֽל׃ פ | chalal | [the] slain | H2491 → | 94 times |
הִרְבֵּיתֶ֥םyou have multiplied
hirbeitemH7235 →227 times
חַלְלֵיכֶ֖םslain [ones] your
chaleikhemH2491 →94 times
בָּעִ֣ירin the city
bairH5892 →1090 times
הַזֹּ֑את<the> this
hazotH2063 →603 times
וּמִלֵּאתֶ֥םand you have filled
umiletemH4390 →249 times
חוּצֹתֶ֖יהָstreets its
chutzoteihaH2351 →164 times
חָלָֽל׃ פ[the] slain
chalalH2491 →94 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
it leads to
- Micah 3:4
Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
- Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
- Isaiah 59:2–3
But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
- Zechariah 7:13
And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 7:8–10
But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
- Micah 3:4
Through
Ezekiel 22:12In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 23:35
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and prostitution.’”
- Deuteronomy 27:25
‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Ezekiel 23:35
Through
Ezekiel 22:27Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 22:13
Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.
- Ezekiel 22:13
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About Ezekiel

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; 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.
