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Ezekiel 22:9-11

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you. In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity. One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

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“ ‘ “Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood. In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths. Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you. In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity. One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter. In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

    In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.

    One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

  • KJV King James Version

    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.

    In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

    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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  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    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.

    In thee have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her impurity.

    And each hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and each hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and each in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

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Cross-references (65)

  • Leviticus 18:9 (v11) “ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or…
  • Leviticus 18:15 (v11) “ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
  • Leviticus 20:17 (v11) “ ‘If a man takes his sister—his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter—and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a…
  • 2 Samuel 13:14 (v11) However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.
  • Hosea 4:14 (v9) I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with…
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  • Leviticus 18:19 (v10) “ ‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
  • Leviticus 19:16 (v9) “ ‘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 (v9) There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
  • Hosea 4:10 (v9) They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.
  • Ezekiel 18:6 (vv9–10) 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,…
  • Ezekiel 18:11 (vv9, 11) or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbor’s wife,
  • Exodus 20:16 (v9) “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
  • Leviticus 18:7-8 (v10) “ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her…
  • Leviticus 18:20 (v11) “ ‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her.
  • Leviticus 20:10 (v11) “ ‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the…
  • Leviticus 20:11 (v10) “ ‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood…
  • Leviticus 20:12 (v11) “ ‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed a perversion. Their blood shall…
  • Psalms 50:20 (v9) You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
  • Proverbs 10:18 (v9) He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
  • Ezekiel 16:43 (v9) “ ‘ “Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will…
  • Matthew 26:59 (v9) 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 (v9) 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…
  • Revelation 12:9-10 (v9) 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…
  • Genesis 35:22 (v10) While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob…
  • Genesis 49:4 (v10) Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
  • Exodus 23:1 (v9) “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
  • Leviticus 20:18 (v10) “ ‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made her fountain naked, and she has uncovered…
  • Deuteronomy 22:22 (v11) If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you…
  • Deuteronomy 27:20 (v10) ‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
  • Deuteronomy 27:22 (v11) ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
  • Deuteronomy 27:23 (v10) ‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
  • Judges 20:6 (v9) 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…
  • 2 Samuel 13:1 (v11) After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
  • 2 Samuel 13:28-29 (v11) Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill…
  • 2 Samuel 16:21-22 (v10) Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are…
  • 1 Kings 21:10-13 (v9) 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…
  • 1 Chronicles 5:1 (v10) The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given…
  • Job 31:9-11 (v11) “If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door, then let my wife grind for another, and let others…
  • Psalms 101:5 (v9) I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
  • Psalms 106:28 (v9) They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
  • Proverbs 18:8 (v9) The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
  • Proverbs 26:22 (v9) The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.
  • Jeremiah 5:7-8 (v11) “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed…
  • Jeremiah 6:28 (v9) They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.
  • Jeremiah 9:2 (v11) Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all…
  • Jeremiah 9:4 (v9) “Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go…
  • Jeremiah 29:23 (v11) because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name…
  • Jeremiah 37:13-15 (v9) 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…
  • Jeremiah 38:4-6 (v9) 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…
  • Ezekiel 18:15 (v9) 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 (v9) “ ‘ “In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any…
  • Hosea 6:9 (v9) 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 (v9) 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.
  • Amos 2:7 (v10) They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same…
  • Malachi 3:5 (v11) I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the…
  • Matthew 5:27-28 (v11) “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has…
  • Acts 6:11-13 (v9) Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.” They stirred up the people, the…
  • Acts 24:5 (v9) 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…
  • Acts 24:13 (v9) Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.
  • 1 Corinthians 5:1 (v10) It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that…
  • 1 Corinthians 6:9 (v11) Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor…
  • Galatians 5:19 (v11) Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
  • Hebrews 13:4 (v11) Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv9–11 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.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv9–11 Men that carry tales; informers and trepanners, or persons…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv9–11 In thee are men that carry tales to shed…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv9–10 Carry tales - Informers, or persons that for money,…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv9–10 Verse 9. In thee are men that carry tales]…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v10 Set apart for pollution - Or, “unclean by reason…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv9–10 Slanderers, hateful to all, Leviticus xix. 16., and Proverbs…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv9–10 men that carry tales--informers, who by misrepresentations cause innocent…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv9–10 9. Men that carry tales — Slanderers and false…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv9–11 9. Informers and false witnesses, Jer_9:3; Exo_23:1; Lev_19:16. Cf.…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv9–11 Men that carry tales, etc. Hebrew, men of slanders.…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v10 General Information:
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v10 22:10 fathers’ wives: See Lev 18:7-8. • force themselves…
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