Discovery BoxEzekiel 16:22 
Context16:22 And with all your abominable practices and prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, kicking around in your blood.
Ezekiel 21:32
Context21:32 You will become fuel for the fire –
your blood will stain the middle of the land; 1
you will no longer be remembered,
for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”
Ezekiel 22:9
Context22:9 Slanderous men shed blood within you. 2 Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; 3 they commit obscene acts among you. 4
Ezekiel 22:27
Context22:27 Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey – shedding blood and destroying lives – so they can get dishonest profit.
Ezekiel 23:45
Context23:45 But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed, 5 because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
Ezekiel 24:7-8
Context24:7 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.
24:8 To arouse anger, to take vengeance,
I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.
Ezekiel 36:18
Context36:18 So I poured my anger on them 6 because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it. 7
Ezekiel 39:19
Context39:19 You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, 8 at my slaughter 9 which I have made for you.
1 tn Heb “your blood will be in the middle of the land.”
2 tn Heb “men of slander are in you in order to shed blood.”
3 tn Heb “and on the mountains they eat within you.” The mountains mentioned here were the site of pagan sacrifices. See 18:6.
4 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.
5 tn Heb “and upright men will judge them (with) the judgment of adulteresses and the judgment of those who shed blood.”
6 sn See Ezek 7:8; 9:8; 14:19; 20:8, 13, 21; 22:22; 30:15.
7 sn For the concept of defiling the land in legal literature, see Lev 18:28; Deut 21:23.
8 sn Eating the fat and drinking blood were God’s exclusive rights in Israelite sacrifices (Lev 3:17).
9 tn Or “sacrifice” (so also in the rest of this verse).
