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Ezekiel 24:7

For the blood of her murders is splashed on the rocks. It isn't even spilled on the ground, where the dust could cover it!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ezekiel;   Instruction;   Sin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Allegory;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bloodguilt;   Ezekiel;   Vengeance;  

Encyclopedias:

- Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Attitudes;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Avenger of Blood;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the blood she shed is still within her.She put it out on the bare rock;she didn’t pour it on the groundto cover it with dust.
Hebrew Names Version
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
King James Version
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;
English Standard Version
For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.
New American Standard Bible
"For her blood is in her midst; She placed it on the bare rock; She did not pour it on the ground To cover it with dust.
New Century Version
"‘The blood from her killings is still in the city. She poured the blood on the bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground where dust would cover it.
Amplified Bible
"For her blood [that she has shed] remains in her midst; She put it on the bare rock; She did not pour it on the ground To cover it with dust.
World English Bible
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For her blood is in the middes of her: shee set it vpon an high rocke, and powred it not vpon on the ground to couer it with dust,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For her blood is in her midst; She placed it on the bare rock; She did not pour it on the ground To cover it with dust.
Legacy Standard Bible
For her blood is in her midst;She placed it on the bare rock;She did not pour it on the groundTo cover it with dust.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Contemporary English Version
The people of Jerusalem murdered innocent people in the city and didn't even try to cover up the blood that flowed out on the hard ground.
Complete Jewish Bible
For her blood is still in her; she poured it on bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
Darby Translation
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
Jerusalem is like a pot with rust on it. This is because the blood from the murders is still there! She put the blood on the bare rock. She did not pour the blood on the ground and cover it with dirt.
George Lamsa Translation
For the blood is still in the midst of her; she splashed it upon the rock; she poured it not upon the ground to cover it with dust,
Good News Translation
There was murder in the city, but the blood was not spilled on the ground where the dust could hide it; it was spilled on a bare rock.
Lexham English Bible
For her blood was in the midst of her; she put it on a bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.
Literal Translation
For her blood is in her midst, she set it on a shining rock. She did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for the bloude is yet in it Vpon a playne drye stone hath she poured it, and not vpon the grounde, that it might be couered with dust.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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;
King James Version (1611)
For her blood is in the middest of her: she set it vpon the toppe of a rocke, she powred it vpon the ground to couer it with dust:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For her blood is yet in it, vpon a hygh drye stone hath she powred it: and not vpon the grounde, that it myght be couered with dust.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For her blood is in the midst of her; I have set it upon a smooth rock: I have not poured it out upon the earth, so that the earth should cover it;
English Revised Version
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;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi the blood therof is in the myddis therof; he schede it out on a ful cleer stoon, he schedde not it out on erthe,
Update Bible Version
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
Webster's Bible Translation
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;
New English Translation
For her blood was in it; she poured it on an exposed rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.
New King James Version
For her blood is in her midst; She set it on top of a rock; She did not pour it on the ground, To cover it with dust.
New Life Bible
For the blood of the city has been poured on the rock. It was not poured on the ground where the dust would cover it.
New Revised Standard
For the blood she shed is inside it; she placed it on a bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground, to cover it with earth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, her own blood, hath come to be in her midst, Upon the smooth face of the cliff, hath she set it,- She hath not poured it out on the earth, that she might cover it with dust.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath shed it upon the smooth rock: she hath not shed it upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust.
Revised Standard Version
For the blood she has shed is still in the midst of her; she put it on the bare rock, she did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust.
Young's Literal Translation
For her blood in her midst hath been, On a clear place of a rock she hath set it, She hath not poured it on the earth, To cover it over with dust.
THE MESSAGE
"‘The blood from murders has stained the whole city; Blood runs bold on the street stones, with no one bothering to wash it off— Blood out in the open to public view to provoke my wrath, to trigger my vengeance.

Contextual Overview

1 On January 15, during the ninth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity, this message came to me from the Lord : 2 "Son of man, write down today's date, because on this very day the king of Babylon is beginning his attack against Jerusalem. 3 Then give these rebels an illustration with this message from the Sovereign Lord : "Put a pot on the fire, and pour in some water. 4 Fill it with choice pieces of meat— the rump and the shoulder and all the most tender cuts. 5 Use only the best sheep from the flock, and heap fuel on the fire beneath the pot. Bring the pot to a boil, and cook the bones along with the meat. 6 "Now this is what the Sovereign Lord says: What sorrow awaits Jerusalem, the city of murderers! She is a cooking pot whose corruption can't be cleaned out. Take the meat out in random order, for no piece is better than another. 7 For the blood of her murders is splashed on the rocks. It isn't even spilled on the ground, where the dust could cover it! 8 So I will splash her blood on a rock for all to see, an expression of my anger and vengeance against her. 9 "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: What sorrow awaits Jerusalem, the city of murderers! I myself will pile up the fuel beneath her. 10 Yes, heap on the wood! Let the fire roar to make the pot boil. Cook the meat with many spices, and afterward burn the bones.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

her blood: 1 Kings 21:19, Isaiah 3:9, Jeremiah 2:34, Jeremiah 6:15

she poured: Leviticus 17:13, Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 12:24, Job 16:18, Isaiah 26:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:26 - conceal 2 Samuel 16:22 - went in 1 Kings 2:5 - put Isaiah 4:4 - have purged Jeremiah 6:7 - violence Ezekiel 3:7 - all the Ezekiel 21:24 - your transgressions Ezekiel 26:4 - make Hosea 12:14 - therefore Matthew 27:25 - His

Cross-References

Genesis 13:15
I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession.
Genesis 15:18
So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, "I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River—
Genesis 17:8
And I will give the entire land of Canaan, where you now live as a foreigner, to you and your descendants. It will be their possession forever, and I will be their God."
Genesis 24:1
Abraham was now a very old man, and the Lord had blessed him in every way.
Genesis 24:3
Swear by the Lord , the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry one of these local Canaanite women.
Genesis 24:4
Go instead to my homeland, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son Isaac."
Genesis 24:5
The servant asked, "But what if I can't find a young woman who is willing to travel so far from home? Should I then take Isaac there to live among your relatives in the land you came from?"
Genesis 24:6
"No!" Abraham responded. "Be careful never to take my son there.
Genesis 24:7
For the Lord , the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and my native land, solemnly promised to give this land to my descendants. He will send his angel ahead of you, and he will see to it that you find a wife there for my son.
Genesis 24:16
Rebekah was very beautiful and old enough to be married, but she was still a virgin. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up again.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For her blood is in the midst of her,.... The blood of innocent persons shed in the midst of her, openly and publicly, cried for vengeance:

she set it upon the top of a rock; where it could not soak in, as when spilled upon soft earth: this denotes her openness and impudence in shedding blood, as not being ashamed of it, or afraid of punishment for it, but as rather glorying in it; perhaps there may be some allusion to the tops of hills and mountains, where idolatry was committed, attended with shedding human blood:

she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; she did not take any methods to hide her sin; having no sense of the heinousness of it, nor any consciousness of guilt, or any remorse or repentance; respect is had to a law which obliged to cover blood shed with dust,

Leviticus 17:13. The Targum of the whole is,

"because innocent blood which is shed in the midst of her; with pride and with a high arm she shed it; she shed it not through ignorance, that she might repent of it.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 24:7. 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, Leviticus 17:13; Deuteronomy 12:24.


 
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