Ezekiel
Ezekiel 24:8KJV·traditional attribution

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.

Matthew Henry Presbyterian

God knew Jerusalem was being sieged that very day, though Ezekiel sat in Babylon hundreds of miles away. When it came to pass exactly as the prophet announced, the people would have to admit he spoke truly from Heaven; his predictions, like his news, came from the same source.

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Commenting on Ezekiel 24:1-14

John Gill Reformed Baptist

That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance,.... Into the heart and mind of God, into his face, speaking after the manner of men; observing such gross and open wickedness, he determined within himself to show his resentment, manifest his wrath and displeasure, and take vengeance on such capital and impudent offenders: I have set her blood upon the top of a...

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Reformed

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.