Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 24:7

"For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust." — Ezekiel 24:7 (ASV)

Upon the top of a rock. —Crimes of violence are continually charged upon Jerusalem (Ezekiel 22:12–13; Ezekiel 23:37, and so on), but here she is further reproached with such indifference to these crimes that she did not even care to cover them decently. It was required in the law that the blood even of the sacrifices (Leviticus 4:7; Leviticus 16:15, and so on) and of animals slain for food (Deuteronomy 12:16) should be poured upon the ground, that it might be absorbed and covered out of sight; but Jerusalem had put the blood of her victims upon the hard rock, and not even covered it with dust, thus glorying in her shame. (Isaiah 26:21.)