What Does Ezekiel 22:2 Mean in the King James?
Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Here, judgment reaches the city by making the violence it hides fully known.
THE MEANING
You stand before a city whose life is marked by bloodshed, and its hidden acts are brought into the open. Judgment here includes making every abhorrence known, so violence cannot remain disguised as ordinary life.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that hidden violence falls outside judgment: what the city conceals is brought into knowledge.
THE ROOT
וְהוֹדַעְתָּהּ
vehoda'tah
GROWS FROM
יָדַע
y-d-ʿ
To know, perceive
“shew” in this verse is vehoda'tah. The Hebrew verb is a causative form of yada: to make her know. The city’s judgment includes bringing its concealed acts into recognition, so its violence can no longer stay outside awareness.
ALSO GROWS
yada: Know, perceive
יָדַע
The root names the knowing that this verb causes: the city is made to face what its life contains.
da'at: Knowledge
דַּעַת
This noun shows the same root’s movement into what is known; the verse turns hidden acts into acknowledged knowledge.
הֲתִשְׁפֹּט
hatishpot
GROWS FROM
שָׁפַט
sh-p-t
To judge, govern, render judgment
The question repeats the act of judging, then immediately turns to making the city’s abominations known. Its family includes both the judge and mishpat, judgment or justice; here, judgment takes shape as a public naming of the city’s bloodshed.
ALSO GROWS
shofet: Judge
שֹׁפֵט
The judge is the one who carries out the act named in the repeated question.
mishpat: Judgment, justice
מִשְׁפָּט
This branch links judging to the ordered naming of what the city has done.
THE PATTERN
Judgment brings hidden deeds into the open so they can be known for what they are.
The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.THE THREAD
The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.The Hebrew word translated “known” comes from yada, the same root behind “make known” in Ezekiel 22:2. “Judgment” here comes from the same family as shaphat, the root of “judge”; the two verses join knowing and judgment as parts of one revealing act.
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