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Ezekiel 22:6-9

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22:6 “‘See how each of the princes of Israel living within you has used his authority to shed blood. 1  22:7 They have treated father and mother with contempt 2  within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow 3  within you. 22:8 You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths! 22:9 Slanderous men shed blood within you. 4  Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; 5  they commit obscene acts among you. 6 

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[22:6]  1 tn Heb “Look! The princes of Israel, each according to his arm, were in you in order to shed blood.”

[22:7]  2 tn Heb “treated lightly, cursed.”

[22:7]  3 tn Widows and orphans are often coupled together in the OT (Deut 14:29; 16:11, 14; 24:19-21; 26:12-13; Jer 7:6; 22:3). They represented all who were poor and vulnerable to economic exploitation.

[22:9]  3 tn Heb “men of slander are in you in order to shed blood.”

[22:9]  4 tn Heb “and on the mountains they eat within you.” The mountains mentioned here were the site of pagan sacrifices. See 18:6.

[22:9]  5 sn This statement introduces vv. 10-11 and refers in general terms to the sexual sins described there. For the legal background of vv. 10-11, see Lev 18:7-20; 20:10-21; Deut 22:22-23, 30; 27:22.



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