Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
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Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
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In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
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In thee have been talebearers to shed blood; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 22:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Hosea 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
- Leviticus 19:16 “ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
- Hosea 4:2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
- Hosea 4:10 They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.
- Exodus 20:16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
- Psalms 50:20 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
- Proverbs 10:18 He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
- Ezekiel 16:43 “ ‘ “Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
- Ezekiel 18:6 and has not eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife, hasn’t come near a woman in her impurity,
- Ezekiel 18:11 or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbor’s wife,
- Matthew 26:59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
- 1 Corinthians 10:18-21 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons. You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.
- Revelation 12:9-10 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
- Exodus 23:1 “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
- Judges 20:6 I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
- 1 Kings 21:10-13 Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.” The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them. They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.
- Psalms 101:5 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
- Psalms 106:28 They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
- Proverbs 18:8 The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
- Proverbs 26:22 The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.
- Jeremiah 6:28 They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.
- Jeremiah 9:4 “Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
- Jeremiah 37:13-15 When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!” Then Jeremiah said, “That is false! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans.” But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah seized Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
- Jeremiah 38:4-6 Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.” Zedekiah the king said, “Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you.” Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
- Ezekiel 18:15 who hasn’t eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife,
- Ezekiel 24:13 “ ‘ “In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
- Hosea 6:9 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.
- Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
- Acts 6:11-13 Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.” They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council, and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
- Acts 24:5 For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
- Acts 24:13 Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 22:9 In thee are men that carry tales…
Eze 22:9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
Ver. 9. In thee are men that carry tales.] Heb., Men of slanders. {Exo 23:1 Lev 18:16} Whisperers, backbiters, tale bearers - pedlars, the Hebrew word, signifieth such as drop a tale here and another there - are viri latrones, thieves, as the Septuagint here translate, yea, they are murderers. The devil was first a slanderer, and then a murderer. His agents first take away the credit of the Church, and then wound her. {Son 5:6} The primitive Christians were first belied, and then cruelly handled; so were the French Protestants before the massacre of Paris. Humphry, Duke of Gloucester was by the people of England, notwithstanding the open showing of his body, and his pretended crimes, thought to be doubly murdered - viz., by detraction and deadly practice - saith the chronicler.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Men that carry tales; informers and trepanners, or persons…
Men that carry tales; informers and trepanners, or persons that, corrupted with money, give in false witness against the innocent; and the princes of Israel had hand in it.
They eat, offer sacrifice, on the mountains, and feast there, celebrating the honour of their idols: see Eze 18:6,11,15.
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Lewdness; enormous, contrived mischiefs, as the word imports.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain In thee are men that carry tales to shed…
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood,.... Innocent blood, as the Targum; such who go from house to house, as pedlars do, with their wares or spices, as the word (a) signifies; hence the Syriac version renders it "merchants"; and carry tales and lies of innocent persons, and stir up others against them to wrath and revenge, and shed their blood; or that go to the courts of judicature, and there accuse innocent persons, and bear false witness against them, to the taking away of their lives. The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it "thieves": who commonly are murderers: and in thee they eat upon the mountains; that is, there were such in Jerusalem who used to go to the mountains where idols were worshipped, and eat the things that were sacrificed to them; or partook of the feast made to the honour of them. So the Targum,
"in thee they served idols on the mountains:''
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in the midst of thee they commit lewdness; a general word for all manner of uncleanness, as adultery, fornication, incest, &c. of which some particulars follow.
(a) "homines mercaturae, vel aromatis"; so Ben Melech observes.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Carry tales - Informers, or persons that for money,…
Carry tales - Informers, or persons that for money, give in false witness against the innocent. They eat - Offer sacrifice on the mountains and feast there, in honour of their idols.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 9. In thee are men that carry tales]…
Verse 9. In thee are men that carry tales] Witnesses that will swear any thing, even where life is concerned.
They eat upon the mountains] Sacrifice to idols, and celebrate their festivals.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Slanderers, hateful to all, Leviticus xix. 16., and Proverbs…
Slanderers, hateful to all, Leviticus xix. 16., and Proverbs xi. 13. --- Mountains. Chap. xviii. 6.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain men that carry tales--informers, who by misrepresentations cause innocent…
men that carry tales--informers, who by misrepresentations cause innocent blood to be shed (Lev 19:16). Literally, "one who goes to and fro as a merchant."
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9. Men that carry tales — Slanderers and false…
9. Men that carry tales — Slanderers and false witnesses (Exo_23:1; Lev_19:16; 1Ki_21:10; Jer_9:3; Jer_37:13).
Eat upon the mountains — See Eze_18:6; Eze_18:11.
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Lewdness — See Eze_16:43.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. Informers and false witnesses, Jer_9:3; Exo_23:1; Lev_19:16. Cf.…
9. Informers and false witnesses, Jer_9:3; Exo_23:1; Lev_19:16. Cf. ch. Eze_18:6; Eze_18:11.
commit lewdness] This clause should probably introduce the vices in Eze_22:10. Idolatry is metaphorically “lewdness,” but here it is not the community but individuals who are spoken of, cf. Eze_22:11.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Men that carry tales, etc. Hebrew, men of slanders.…
Men that carry tales, etc. Hebrew, men of slanders. (comp. Exo_23:1; Lev_19:16) The sin of the informers, ever ready to lend themselves to plots against the life or character of the innocent, was then, as at all times, the besetting evil of corrupt government in the East. Compare the story of Naboth (1Ki_21:10) and of Jeremiah. (Jer_37:13) (For eating on the mountains, see note on Eze_18:6; and for lewdness, that on Eze_16:43) What the lewdness consisted in is stated in the following verses.
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