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Ezekiel 22:11

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One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And one hath committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

KJV

And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

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This verse in Ezekiel 22

Commentary

4 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

violates his sister

The three cases match Leviticus 18:20, 18:15 and 18:9, the neighbor's wife, the daughter-in-law and the sister. Amnon's crime against Tamar in 2 Samuel 13 was the last of these. Barnes reads such sins as the reason Canaan fell.

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 Awakening1 voice

And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife,....

The words behind it

18 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.

  • וְאִ֣ישׁ׀and a man

    veishH376 →1663 times

  • אֶת־with

    ʾet-H854 →929 times

  • אֵ֣שֶׁת[the] wife of

    ʾeshetH802 →781 times

  • רֵעֵ֗הוּneighbor his

    reehuH7453 →188 times

  • עָשָׂה֙he has done

    ʾasahH6213 →2628 times

  • תּֽוֹעֵבָ֔הabomination

    toevahH8441 →117 times

  • וְאִ֥ישׁand a man

    veishH376 →1663 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כַּלָּת֖וֹdaughter-in-law his

    kalatoH3618 →

  • טִמֵּ֣אhe has defiled

    time'H2930 →162 times

  • בְזִמָּ֑הin wickedness

    vezimahH2154 →29 times

  • וְאִ֛ישׁand a man

    veishH376 →1663 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אֲחֹת֥וֹsister his

    ʾachotoH269 →114 times

  • בַת־[the] daughter of

    vat-H1323 →588 times

  • אָבִ֖יוfather his

    ʾavivH1 →1212 times

  • עִנָּה־he has humiliated

    ʾinah-H6031 →

  • בָֽךְ׃in you

    vakh

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

Related verses

18 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 18:9You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.5 worksLeviticus 20:17If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.5 worksLeviticus 18:15You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.5 works2 Samuel 13:14But Amnon refused to listen to her, and being stronger, he violated her and lay with her.5 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.4 worksLeviticus 20:12If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them.3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Leviticus 18:20You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.3 worksEzekiel 18:11though the father has done none of them: Indeed, the son eats at the mountain and defiles his neighbor’s wife.3 worksLeviticus 20:10If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.3 worksJeremiah 5:7“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.3 worksJeremiah 5:8They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.3 worksLeviticus 18:27For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.3 worksDeuteronomy 27:22‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’3 worksProverbs 6:29So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.3 works2 Samuel 13:28–29Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”2 worksJeremiah 9:2If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.2 worksMalachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.2 works1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,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

    Leviticus 20:17

    If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 27:22

      ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Leviticus 18:9

      You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

  • Through

    Leviticus 18:9

    You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 20:17

      If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of…

    • 2 Samuel 13:11–14

      And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!”

  • Through

    Leviticus 20:12

    If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 18:15

      You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.

  • Through

    Leviticus 18:15

    You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 20:12

      If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them.

    • Genesis 38:26

      Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 13:14

    But Amnon refused to listen to her, and being stronger, he violated her and lay with her.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 12:11

      This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will…

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 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) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.

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