Ezekiel 24:7
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
For her blood is in the middle of her; she set it on the top of a rock; she poured it not on the ground, to cover it with dust;
American King James Version (AKJV)
For her blood is in the middle of her; she set it on the top of a rock; she poured it not on the ground, to cover it with dust;
American Standard Version (ASV)
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;
Webster's Revision
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
World English Bible
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
English Revised Version (ERV)
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
Clarke's Ezekiel 24:7 Bible Commentary
For her blood is in the midst of her - She gloried in her idol sacrifices; she offered them upon a rock, where the blood should remain evident; and she poured none upon the ground to cover it with dust, in horror of that moral evil that required the blood of an innocent creature to be shed, in order to the atonement of the offender's guilt. To "cover the blood of the victim," was a command of the law, Leviticus 17:13; Deuteronomy 12:24.
Barnes's Ezekiel 24:7 Bible Commentary
The top of a rock - The blood was poured upon a naked, dry, rock where it could not be absorbed or unnoticed.
Wesley's Ezekiel 24:7 Bible Commentary
24:7 The blood - Innocent blood which she hath shed.The top of a rock - Where it might be long seen.To cover it - These butchers of innocent ones leave their blood uncovered.
