Ezekiel 24:7
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
Cross-reference
In Ezekiel 21:24, sins are uncovered and remembered — a parallel to the blood left uncovered, which forces guilt into public view.
Leviticus 17:13 commands covering blood after hunting; here the city flouts this law by leaving blood exposed on rock.
Deuteronomy 12:16 instructs pouring blood on the ground; Ezekiel 24:7 describes the opposite—setting it on bare rock.
Deuteronomy 12:24 repeats the command to pour blood on earth; this verse shows the city blatantly disobeying.
In 1 Kings 21:19, Naboth's blood left uncovered similarly demands divine vengeance, reinforcing the principle of exposed blood.
Job 16:18 cries for blood not to be covered, seeking vindication; here the uncovered blood becomes evidence for judgment.
Isaiah 3:9 describes sin paraded openly like Sodom—matching the blood set on bare rock, both signs of shameless guilt.
Isaiah 26:21 says the earth will reveal blood at judgment; here the blood is already exposed, invoking that divine reckoning.
Jeremiah 2:34 finds innocent blood on skirts—uncovered evidence of violence, paralleling the blood on bare rock here.
Jeremiah 6:15 highlights shamelessness in sin—like the exposed blood, showing no repentance before judgment.
In Genesis 37:26, Judah proposes hiding Joseph's blood — the same failure to expose blood openly that Ezekiel condemns here.
Isaiah 4:4 promises cleansing of Jerusalem's bloodstains — a divine solution to the very bloodguilt left exposed here.
Hosea 12:14 says Ephraim's bloodguilt remains unpaid — mirroring the uncovered blood here that demands divine repayment.
Jeremiah 6:7 describes Jerusalem's violence as ever-present — echoing the open bloodguilt that Ezekiel says cries out from the bare rock.