THEOSISTheodoret of Cyrus
Among your people are those who act without regard for the law, taking the lives of others and seeking the blood of the innocent. They worship demons on the hills and indulge in the pleasures of idol altars.
Ezekiel 22:9Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Slanderers have been in thee to shed blood, and they have eaten upon the mountains in thee, they have committed wickedness in the midst of thee.
אַנְשֵׁ֥י רָכִ֛יל הָ֥יוּ בָ֖ךְ לְמַ֣עַן שְׁפָךְ־דָּ֑ם וְאֶל־הֶֽהָרִים֙ אָ֣כְלוּ בָ֔ךְ זִמָּ֖ה עָשׂ֥וּ בְתוֹכֵֽךְ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Hos 4:14I will not visit upon your daughters, when they shall commit fornication, and upon your spouses when they shall commit adultery: because themselves conversed with harlots, and offered sacrifice with the effeminate, and the people that doth not understand shall be beaten.
- Hos 4:2Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.
- Lev 19:16Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.
- Hos 4:10And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they have committed fornication, and have not ceased: because they have forsaken the Lord in not observing the law.
- Ezek 16:43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me in all these things: wherefore I also have turned all thy ways upon thy head, saith the Lord God, and I have not done according to thy wicked deeds in all thy abominations.
- Ezek 18:6And hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel: and hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman:
- Ezek 18:11Though he doth not all these things, but that eateth upon the mountains, and that defileth his neighbour's wife:
- Acts 24:5We have found this to be a pestilent man and raising seditions among all the Jews throughout the world: and author of the sedition of the sect of the Nazarenes.