Ezekiel 22:6

Behold, the princes of Israel,.... Those that belonged to the royal family, or the nobles of the land, or the members of the grand sanhedrim of the nation:

everyone were in thee to their power to…

Render it: Behold the princes of Israel, each according to his might (literally “arm”) have been in thee in order to shed blood. They looked to might not right.

Behold, the princes - Ye are a vile and murderous people, and your princes have been of the same character. Like people, like prince.

In these verses the prophet by a commission from Heaven sits as a judge upon the bench, and Jerusalem is made to hold up her hand as a prisoner at the bar; and, if prophets were set over other…

Particular enumeration of Jerusalem's sins

6. The "princes" are those of the royal house.

were … to their power have been high-handed in thee, to shed. The meaning is not that they shed blood to the…