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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 24:8 - King James

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Eze 24:8 King James That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
That it might cause--God purposely let her so shamelessly pour the blood on the bare rock, "that it might" the more loudly and openly cry for vengeance from on high; and that the connection between the guilt and the punishment might be the more palpable. The blood of Abel, though the ground received it, still cries to heaven for vengeance (Gen 4:10-11); much more blood shamelessly exposed on the bare rock.

set her blood--She shall be paid back in kind (Mat 7:2). She openly shed blood, and her blood shall openly be shed.
 
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2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;