Ezekiel 16:38 - Exposition

The bloodshed may refer, as in Ezekiel 16:36 , to the Moloch sacrifices, or may include also other crimea, assassinations and judicial murders ( Jeremiah 2:34 ). Strictly speaking, the punishment of the adulteress was death by stoning (Le Ezekiel 20:2 , Ezekiel 20:10 ; Deuteronomy 21:21 ; Deuteronomy 22:21 ; John 8:5 ). Did Ezekiel think of the stones cast against the city from the catapult engines of the Chahleans as a literal counterpart of that punishment? In the last clause read, with the Revised Version, I will bring upon thee the blood of fury and jealousy; sc. the death which was inflicted by the indignation of Jehovah as the Husband against whom Judah had sinned.