Ezekiel 22 Footnotes

22:1-12 Some commentators suggest this list of the fifteen specific sins of Jerusalem is not Ezekiel’s. But the list compares favorably with 18:5-17. Both lists include bloodshed (22:3,6); idolatry (v. 4); violation of God’s law (v. 4); perversion of power (v. 6); loss of domestic discipline (v. 7); lack of hospitality to strangers (v. 7); oppression of widows and orphans (v. 7); profaning holy things (v. 8); violating the Sabbath (v. 8); giving false witness (v. 9); eating at pagan shrines (v. 9); sacred prostitution (vv. 10-11); accepting bribes (v. 12); exacting exorbitant interest rates (v. 12); and forgetting God (v. 12).