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Ezekiel 24:7

in Ezekiel 24

For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust.

KJV

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

This verse in Ezekiel 24

Commentary

10 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

For her blood is in the midst of her - She gloried in her idol sacrifices; she offered them upon a rock, where the blood should remain evident; and she poured none upon the ground to cover it with dust, in horror of that moral evil that required the blood of an innocent creature to be shed, in order to the atonement of the offender’s guilt. To “cover the blood of the victim,” was a command of the law, Lev 17:13; Deu 12:24.

This site's exposition

Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein

on Ezekiel 24:6-8

Fairbairn reads the detail of blood set upon the top of a rock as the chapter's sharpest legal point. The law required spilled blood to be covered. Barnes notes the exposed blood functions as a standing accusation, the city's own crime left uncovered until judgment answers it.

This site's exposition

on the bare rock

The Law required the blood of hunted game to be covered with dirt, as Leviticus 17:13 directs. Jerusalem left the blood it shed open on the rock. Clarke read the exposed blood as idol sacrifice done in public view.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter 24, Verse 1 onwards) Then in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 'Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

): Her blood is in the midst of her. Many a barbarous murder has been committed in the very heart of the city; nay, and they have a disposition to cruelty in their hearts; they inwardly delight in blood-shed, and so it is in the midst of them.

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A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

The blood - Innocent blood which she hath shed. The top of a rock - Where it might be long seen. To cover it - These butchers of innocent ones leave their blood uncovered.
For her blood is in the midst of her,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

By the sign of Ezekiel's not mourning for the death of his wife is shown that the calamities coming upon Jerusalem were too great to be lamented, so great that they should sink down under them into a silent despair,
2 more voices on this verse

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

upon the top of a rock--or, "the dry, bare, exposed rock," so as to be conspicuous to all. Blood poured on a rock is not so soon absorbed as blood poured on the earth. The law ordered the blood even of a beast or fowl to be "covered with the dust" (Le 17:13); but Jerusalem was so shameless as to be at no pains to cover up the blood of innocent men slain in her.

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The top of a rock - The blood was poured upon a naked, dry, rock where it could not be absorbed or unnoticed.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • כִּ֤יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • דָמָהּ֙blood its

    damahH1818 →360 times

  • בְּתוֹכָ֣הּin [the] midst of it

    betokhahH8432 →418 times

  • הָיָ֔הit was

    hayahH1961 →3559 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • צְחִ֥יחַbareness of

    tzechiachH6706 →5 times

  • סֶ֖לַעrock

    sela'H5553 →58 times

  • שָׂמָ֑תְהוּit put it

    samatehuH7760 →584 times

  • לֹ֤אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • שְׁפָכַ֙תְהוּ֙it poured out it

    shefakhathuH8210 →114 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הָאָ֔רֶץthe ground

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • לְכַסּ֥וֹתto cover

    lekhasotH3680 →152 times

  • עָלָ֖יוover it

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • עָפָֽר׃dust

    ʾafarH6083 →110 times

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

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

    Deuteronomy 12:16

    but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 15:23

      But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 6:15

    Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 8:12

      Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish…

    • Matthew 15:14

      Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

  • Through

    Isaiah 26:21

    For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 13:11

      I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.

    • Jude 1:14–15

      Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones

    • Revelation 6:9–11

      And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld.

  • Through

    Leviticus 17:13

    And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.

    it leads to

  • Through

    1 Kings 21:19

    Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 22:38

      And the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahab’s blood, according to the word that the LORD had spoken.

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.
This page draws on 9 works. Open the list of works

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