Ezekiel 24:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

She poured it not upon the ground— The words allude to the command of the law, that they should cover the blood of any beast or other living creature with dust: a precept intended not only to prevent their eating blood, but also to give them a kind of horror at seeing it shed. See Lowth.

Ezekiel 24:7

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;