22:3 city sheddeth blood. The city of Jerusalem, representing all Judah, with its kings and priests most guilty of all, had repeatedly been guilty of bloodshed—in the sacrificing of children to idols, in judicial executions of its prophets, and in its rebellion against the Babylonians (II Kings 21:16; 23:37; 24:9; 24:19; Matthew 23:37; etc.).