Ezekiel 22:9

22:9 Slanderous men shed blood within you. 1  Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; 2  they commit obscene acts among you. 3 

Ezekiel 36:18

36:18 So I poured my anger on them 4  because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it. 5 

1 tn Heb “men of slander are in you in order to shed blood.”

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

3 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.

4 sn See Ezek 7:8; 9:8; 14:19; 20:8, 13, 21; 22:22; 30:15.

5 sn For the concept of defiling the land in legal literature, see Lev 18:28; Deut 21:23.