Ezekiel 22:9 - Exposition

Men that carry tales , etc. Hebrew, men of slanders (comp. Exodus 23:1 ; Le Exodus 19:16 ). The sin of the informers, ever ready to lend themselves to plots against the life or character of the innocent, was then, as at all times, the besetting evil of corrupt government in the East. Compare the story of Naboth ( 1 Kings 21:10 ) and of Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 37:13 ). ( For eating on the mountains , see note on Ezekiel 18:6 ; and for lewdness, that on Ezekiel 16:43 .) What the lewdness consisted in is stated in the following verses.