Discovery BoxEzekiel 22:6 
Context22:6 “‘See how each of the princes of Israel living within you has used his authority to shed blood. 1
Ezekiel 22:12-13
Context22:12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; 2 you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, 3 declares the sovereign Lord. 4
22:13 “‘See, I strike my hands together 5 at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed 6 they have done among you.
1 tn Heb “Look! The princes of Israel, each according to his arm, were in you in order to shed blood.”
2 tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36.
3 sn Forgetting the Lord is also addressed in Deut 6:12; 8:11, 14; Jer 3:21; 13:25; Ezek 23:35; Hos 2:15; 8:14; 13:6.
4 tn The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.
5 sn This gesture apparently expresses mourning and/or anger (see 6:11; 21:14, 17).
6 tn Heb “the blood which was in you.”
