Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 22:9
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
9. Informers and false witnesses, Jer 9:3; Exo 23:1; Lev 19:16. Cf. ch. Eze 18:6; Eze 18:11.
commit lewdness ] This clause should probably introduce the vices in Eze 22:10. Idolatry is metaphorically “lewdness,” but here it is not the community but individuals who are spoken of, cf. Eze 22:11.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 9. In thee are men that carry tales] Witnesses that will swear any thing, even where life is concerned.
They eat upon the mountains] Sacrifice to idols, and celebrate their festivals.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Men that carry tales; informers and trepanners, or persons that, corrupted with money, give in false witness against the innocent; and the princes of Israel had hand in it.
They eat, offer sacrifice, on the mountains, and feast there, celebrating the honour of their idols: see Eze 18:6,11,15.
Lewdness; enormous, contrived mischiefs, as the word imports.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
9. men that carry talesinformers,who by misrepresentations cause innocent blood to be shed (Le19:16). Literally, “one who goes to and fro as a merchant.“
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood,…. Innocent blood, as the Targum; such who go from house to house, as pedlars do, with their wares or spices, as the word a signifies; hence the Syriac version renders it “merchants”; and carry tales and lies of innocent persons, and stir up others against them to wrath and revenge, and shed their blood; or that go to the courts of judicature, and there accuse innocent persons, and bear false witness against them, to the taking away of their lives. The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it “thieves”: who commonly are murderers: and in thee they eat upon the mountains; that is, there were such in Jerusalem who used to go to the mountains where idols were worshipped, and eat the things that were sacrificed to them; or partook of the feast made to the honour of them. So the Targum,
“in thee they served idols on the mountains:”
in the midst of thee they commit lewdness; a general word for all manner of uncleanness, as adultery, fornication, incest, c. of which some particulars follow.
a “homines mercaturae, [vel] aromatis” so Ben Melech observes.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
9. Men that carry tales Slanderers and false witnesses (Exo 23:1; Lev 19:16; 1Ki 21:10; Jer 9:3; Jer 37:13).
Eat upon the mountains See Eze 18:6; Eze 18:11.
Lewdness See Eze 16:43.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
“Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood, and in you they have eaten on the mountains. In the midst of you they have committed lewdness. In you they have discovered their fathers’ nakedness, in you they have humbled her who was unclean in her separation. And one has committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter in law, and another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.”
The catalogue of sins continues. And this was in what they called ‘the holy city’. Men had brought about the deaths of others by slander and lies (see Exo 20:16; Lev 19:16); idolatrous, licentious feasts had been celebrated within the city on its mountains; and sexual misbehaviour which it is even a shame to speak about had been practised widely (see Lev 18:7; Lev 18:19-20; Lev 20:10, Lev 21:17).
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 22:9. In thee are men that carry tales, &c. “Who beat false witness against men in capital cases.” Houbigant reads, Thy men are perfidious, that they may shed blood. The reader, for the best exposition of this chapter, will refer to the 18th.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Eze 22:9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
Ver. 9. In thee are men that carry tales. ] Heb., Men of slanders. Exo 23:1 Lev 18:16 Whisperers, backbiters, tale bearers – pedlars, the Hebrew word, signifieth such as drop a tale here and another there – are viri latrones, thieves, as the Septuagint here translate, yea, they are murderers. The devil was first a slanderer, and then a murderer. His agents first take away the credit of the Church, and then wound her. Son 5:6 The primitive Christians were first belied, and then cruelly handled; so were the French Protestants before the massacre of Paris. Humphry, Duke of Gloucester was by the people of England, notwithstanding the open showing of his body, and his pretended crimes, thought to be doubly murdered – viz., by detraction and deadly practice – saith the chronicler.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
men. Hebrew, plural of ‘enesh. App-14. Hebrew men of slander.
carry tales, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Lev 19:16). App-92.
eat upon the mountains : i.e. the idolatries practised on the mountains. Compare Eze 18:6,
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
men that carry tales: Heb. men of slanders, Exo 20:16, Exo 23:1, Lev 19:16, 1Ki 21:10-13, Psa 50:20, Psa 101:5, Pro 10:18, Pro 18:8, Pro 26:22, Jer 6:28, Jer 9:4, Jer 37:13-15, Jer 38:4-6, Mat 26:59, Act 6:11-13, Act 24:5, Act 24:13, Rev 12:9, Rev 12:10
they eat: Eze 18:6, Eze 18:11, Eze 18:15, Psa 106:28, 1Co 10:18-21
they commit: Eze 16:43, Eze 24:13, Jdg 20:6, Hos 4:2, Hos 4:10, Hos 4:14, Hos 6:9, Hos 7:4
Reciprocal: Lev 17:5 – in the open 1Sa 22:9 – Doeg 1Sa 24:1 – it was told Jer 20:10 – Report Jer 23:10 – full Eze 7:23 – for Eze 11:6 – General Eze 33:25 – and shed Eze 33:26 – and ye Rev 18:24 – in her
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 22:9. There are three unrighteous practices mentioned in this verse. One is the peddling of gossip that led to the shedding of innocent blood. Another is to eat upon the mountains which means to participate in idolatrous feasts, and the other pertains to practices of immorality.