Ezekiel 22:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
  • Dan 9:8 : 8 O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right? 2 You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones; 3 Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight. 10 They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing. 11 Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.
  • Zech 3:3 : 3 Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the angel.
  • Jer 2:26-27 : 26 As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets; 27 Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.
  • Jer 5:5 : 5 I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
  • Jer 32:32 : 32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to make me angry, they and their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.
  • Neh 9:34 : 34 And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 22:7-13
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    79%

    7In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

    8You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.

    9In you there are men who say evil of others, causing death; in you they have taken the flesh with the blood for food; in your streets they have put evil designs into effect.

    10In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.

    11And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

    12In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

    13See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.

  • Ezek 22:27
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    27Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.

  • Ezek 21:25
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    25And you, O evil one, wounded to death, O ruler of Israel, whose day has come in the time of the last punishment;

  • Isa 1:22-23
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    22Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.

    23Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

  • Lam 5:12
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    12Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.

  • Ezek 22:4-5
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    4You are responsible for the blood drained out by you, and you are unclean through the images which you have made; and you have made your day come near, and the time of your judging has come; for this cause I have made you a name of shame to the nations and a cause of laughing to all countries.

    5Those who are near and those who are far from you will make sport of you; your name is unclean, you are full of sounds of fear.

  • Mic 3:9-10
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    9Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.

    10They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

  • Hos 5:10
    72%

    10The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.

  • Ezek 19:1
    72%

    1Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,

  • Mic 7:3
    71%

    3Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

  • Zeph 3:3-4
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    71%

    3Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

    4Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

  • Lam 4:13-14
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    71%

    13It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

    14They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.

  • Jer 2:26
    71%

    26As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;

  • Hos 4:2
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    2There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

  • Jer 6:13
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    13For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.

  • Obad 1:11
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    11Because you were there watching when men from other lands took away his goods, and strange men came into his doors, and put the fate of Jerusalem to the decision of chance; you were like one of them.

  • Josh 22:14
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    14And with him they sent ten chiefs, one for every tribe of the children of Israel, every one of them the head of his house among the families of Israel.

  • Isa 3:5-6
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    71%

    5And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.

    6When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:

  • Hab 2:8
    70%

    8Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men's blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.

  • Ezek 11:6
    70%

    6You have made great the number of your dead in this town, you have made its streets full of dead men.

  • Ps 79:3
    70%

    3Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.

  • Hab 2:10
    70%

    10You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.

  • Jer 2:34
    70%

    34And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...

  • Ezek 22:29
    70%

    29The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

  • Hos 6:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

    9And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.

  • Hos 5:2
    69%

    2They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.

  • Ezek 35:5
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    5Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end:

  • Mic 3:1
    69%

    1And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?

  • Mic 6:12
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    12For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

  • Hos 7:3
    69%

    3In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

  • Ezek 45:9
    69%

    9This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 7:27
    69%

    27The king will give himself up to sorrow, and the ruler will be clothed with wonder, and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled: I will give them punishment for their ways, judging them as it is right for them to be judged; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Isa 22:3
    69%

    3All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.

  • 2 Sam 16:8
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    8The Lord has sent punishment on you for all the blood of the family of Saul, whose kingdom you have taken; and the Lord has given the kingdom to Absalom, your son: now you yourself are taken in your evil, because you are a man of blood.

  • Isa 43:28
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    28Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.

  • Hab 2:17
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    17For the violent acts against Lebanon will come on you, and the destruction of the cattle will be a cause of fear to you, because of men's blood and the violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.