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;
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Gill's Exposition
For her blood is in the midst of her,.... The blood of innocent persons shed in the midst of her, openly and publicly, cried for vengeance:
she set it upon the top of a rock; where it could not soak…
The top of a rock - The blood was poured upon a naked, dry, rock where it could not be absorbed or unnoticed.
Adam Clarke
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…
We have here,
I. The notice God gives to Ezekiel in Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar's laying siege to Jerusalem, just at the time when he was doing it (Eze 24:2): "Son of man, take notice, the king of…
Cambridge Bible
top of a rock a bare rock. Job 16:18, "O earth cover not my blood." Blood uncovered cries for vengeance. Cf. Lev 17:13; Deu 12:16. On the idea of the openness of Jerusalem's sin cf. Isa 3:9, "They…
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