Ezekiel 22:1-2 - Exposition

Moreover , etc. The word connects what follows with the word of the Lord which began in Ezekiel 20:2 . That connection is, indeed, sufficiently indicated by the recurrence of the formula, "Wilt thou judge?" (see note on Ezekiel 20:4 ). In obedience to the commands which that question implied, Ezekiel has once more to go through the catalogue of the sins of Judah and Jerusalem. It is not without significance that he applies the very epithet of bloody city (Hebrew, city of bloods ) which Nahum ( Nahum 3:1 ) had applied to Nineveh.