Ezekiel 24:8 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 24:8

That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.

KJV

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ASV

That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered.

WEB

In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.’

YLT

To cause fury to come up to take vengeance, I have put her blood on a clear place of a rock--not to be covered.

DBT

That it might cause fury to come up to execute vengeance, I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered.

About this book

Old Testament

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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23 verses on the floor

Deuteronomy 32:21–22
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Jeremiah 4:4
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Revelation 17:1–6
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 Kings 22:17
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
Revelation 18:5–10
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

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): 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.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It is absolutely necessary that such a bloody city as this should have blood given her to drink, for she is worthy, for the vindicating of the honour of divine justice. And, the crime having been public and notorious, it is fit that the punishment should be so too: I have set her blood on the top of a rock.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The blood of Abel, though the ground received it, still cries to heaven for vengeance (Ge 4:10, 11); much more blood shamelessly exposed on the bare rock. set her blood--She shall be paid back in kind (Mt 7:2). She openly shed blood, and her blood shall openly be shed.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

EZE 24:82CH 34:25 JER 7:20
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EZE 24:82CH 34:25 NAH 1:6
EZE 24:82CH 34:25 MRK 9:43-48
EZE 24:82KI 22:17 2KI 21:22
EZE 24:82CH 34:25 2CH 33:3-9
EZE 24:82CH 34:25 EZE 20:48
EZE 24:82KI 22:17 NEH 9:26-27
EZE 24:82KI 22:17 ISA 44:17-20

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