Ezekiel 24:8
in Ezekiel 24In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.’
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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.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Ezekiel 24
Commentary
9 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
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.
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
take vengeance
The blood God leaves uncovered keeps crying out for justice. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown recalled Abel's blood crying from the ground in Genesis 4:10, and this blood lies open on the rock. The city is repaid in kind.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(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
): 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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That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance,....
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.
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,
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
That it might cause fury - This very blood shall be against them, as the blood of Abel was against Cain.
The words behind it
12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לְהַעֲל֤וֹת | lehaalot | to stir up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| חֵמָה֙ | chemah | rage | H2534 → | 125 times |
| לִנְקֹ֣ם | linkom | to avenge | H5358 → | 35 times |
| נָקָ֔ם | nakam | vengeance | H5359 → | 17 times |
| נָתַ֥תִּי | natati | I put | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| דָּמָ֖הּ | damah | blood its | H1818 → | 360 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| צְחִ֣יחַ | tzechiach | bareness of | H6706 → | 5 times |
| סָ֑לַע | sala' | rock | H5553 → | 58 times |
| לְבִלְתִּ֖י | levilti | to not | H1115 → | 112 times |
| הִכָּסֽוֹת׃ פ | hikasot | to be covered | H3680 → | 152 times |
לְהַעֲל֤וֹתto stir up
lehaalotH5927 →890 times
חֵמָה֙rage
chemahH2534 →125 times
לִנְקֹ֣םto avenge
linkomH5358 →35 times
נָקָ֔םvengeance
nakamH5359 →17 times
נָתַ֥תִּיI put
natatiH5414 →2011 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
דָּמָ֖הּblood its
damahH1818 →360 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
צְחִ֣יחַbareness of
tzechiachH6706 →5 times
סָ֑לַעrock
sala'H5553 →58 times
לְבִלְתִּ֖יto not
leviltiH1115 →112 times
הִכָּסֽוֹת׃ פto be covered
hikasotH3680 →152 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
2 Chronicles 34:25because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be poured out upon this place…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 7:20
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Nahum 1:6
Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
- Mark 9:43–48
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
- 2 Chronicles 33:3–9
For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of…
- Ezekiel 20:48
Then all people will see that I, the LORD, have kindled it; it will not be quenched.”
- Jeremiah 7:20
Through
2 Kings 22:17because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place and…
it leads to
- 2 Kings 21:22
He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.
- Nehemiah 9:26–27
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
- Isaiah 44:17–20
From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”
- 2 Kings 21:22
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.