Ezekiel 46:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the ruler is not to take the heritage of any of the people, driving them out of their property; he is to give a heritage to his sons out of the property which is his: so that my people may not be sent away from their property.

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  • Ezek 45:8 : 8 And this will be his heritage in Israel: and my rulers will no longer be cruel masters to my people; but they will give the land as a heritage to the children of Israel by their tribes.
  • 1 Kgs 21:19 : 19 Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.
  • 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.
  • Ezek 34:3-6 : 3 You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food. 4 You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly. 5 And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field. 6 And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.
  • Ezek 34:21 : 21 Because you have been pushing with side and leg, pushing the diseased with your horns till they were sent away in every direction;
  • Ps 68:18 : 18 You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.
  • Ps 72:2-4 : 2 May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor. 3 May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness. 4 May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.
  • Ps 78:72 : 72 So he gave them food with an upright heart, guiding them by the wisdom of his hands.
  • Isa 11:3-4 : 3 And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears: 4 But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.
  • Isa 32:1-2 : 1 See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions. 2 And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.
  • Jer 23:5-6 : 5 See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land. 6 In his days Judah will have salvation and Israel will be living without fear: and this is the name by which he will be named, The Lord is our righteousness.
  • Mic 1:1-2 : 1 The word of the Lord which came to Micah the Morashtite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah: his vision about Samaria and Jerusalem. 2 Give ear, you peoples, all of you; give attention, O earth and everything in it: let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy Temple.
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 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. 2 They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.
  • 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.
  • John 10:28 : 28 And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand.
  • Eph 4:8 : 8 For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men.

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  • Ezek 46:16-17
    2 verses
    82%

    16 This is what the Lord has said: If the ruler gives a property to any of his sons, it is his heritage and will be the property of his sons; it is theirs for their heritage.

    17 And if he gives a part of his heritage to one of his servants, it will be his till the year of making free, and then it will go back to the ruler; for it is his sons' heritage, and is to be theirs.

  • Ezek 45:7-9
    3 verses
    81%

    7 And for the ruler there is to be a part on one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the holy offering and in front of the property of the town on the west of it and on the east: measured in the same line as one of the parts of the land, from its limit on the west to its limit on the east of the land.

    8 And this will be his heritage in Israel: and my rulers will no longer be cruel masters to my people; but they will give the land as a heritage to the children of Israel by their tribes.

    9 This 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 48:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21 And the rest is to be for the prince, on this side and on that side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the twenty-five thousand to the east, as far as the east limit, and to the west, in front of the twenty-five thousand, as far as the west limit, and of the same measure as those parts; it will be the property of the prince: and the holy offering and holy place of the house will be in the middle of it.

    22 And the property of the Levites and the property of the town will be in the middle of the prince's property; between the limit of Judah's part and the limit of Benjamin's part will be for the prince.

  • Num 34:18
    72%

    18 And you are to take one chief from every tribe to make the distribution of the land.

  • Num 36:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7 And so no property will be handed from tribe to tribe among the children of Israel; but every one of the children of Israel will keep the heritage of his father's tribe.

    8 And every daughter owning property in any tribe of the children of Israel is to be married to one of the family of her father's tribe, so that every man of the children of Israel may keep the heritage of his fathers.

    9 And no property will be handed from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Israel will keep its heritage.

  • Ezek 44:28
    72%

    28 And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property.

  • Ezek 45:16
    72%

    16 All the people are to give this offering to the ruler.

  • Deut 18:8
    71%

    8 His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the price of his property.

  • Deut 18:2
    70%

    2 And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.

  • Num 36:4
    70%

    4 And at the time of the Jubilee of the children of Israel, their property will be joined to the heritage of the tribe of which they are part and will be taken away from the heritage of the tribe of our fathers.

  • Ezek 46:10
    70%

    10 And the ruler, when they come in, is to come among them, and is to go out when they go out.

  • Ezek 46:8
    70%

    8 And when the ruler comes in, he is to go in through the covered way of the doorway, and he is to go out by the same way.

  • Ezek 37:25
    69%

    25 And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever.

  • Isa 34:17
    69%

    17 And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.

  • Lev 25:46
    69%

    46 And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

  • Num 26:54-55
    2 verses
    68%

    54 To those families who are more in number, give a greater heritage; to those who are less in number, a smaller part: to every one let the heritage be given in relation to the number in his family.

    55 But let the distribution of the land be made by the decision of the Lord: by the names of the tribes of their fathers let their heritage be given them.

  • Job 18:19
    68%

    19 He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

  • Num 33:54
    68%

    54 And you will take up your heritage in the land by the decision of the Lord, to every family its part; the greater the family the greater its heritage, and the smaller the family the smaller will be its heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord gives to any man his part, that will be his; distribution will be made to you by your fathers' tribes.

  • Ezek 44:3
    68%

    3 But the ruler will be seated there to take his food before the Lord; he will go in by the covered way to the door, and will come out by the same way.

  • Ezek 36:12
    68%

    12 Yes, I will have you walked on by the feet of men, even my people Israel; they will have you for a heritage and you will be theirs, and never again will you take their children from them.

  • Ezek 47:14
    68%

    14 And you are to make an equal division of it; as I gave my oath to your fathers to give it to you: for this land is to be your heritage.

  • Num 27:9-11
    3 verses
    67%

    9 And if he has no daughter, then give his heritage to his brothers.

    10 And if he has no brothers, then give his heritage to his father's brothers.

    11 And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his nearest relation in the family, as his heritage: this is to be a decision made by law for the children of Israel, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

  • Lev 25:41
    67%

    41 Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

  • Lev 25:34
    67%

    34 But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.

  • Ezek 48:14
    67%

    14 And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord.

  • Num 18:20
    67%

    20 And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel.

  • Ezek 47:22-23
    2 verses
    67%

    22 And you are to make a distribution of it, by the decision of the Lord, for a heritage to you and to the men from other lands who are living among you and who have children in your land: they will be the same to you as if they were Israelites by birth, they will have their heritage with you among the tribes of Israel.

    23 In whatever tribe the man from a strange land is living, there you are to give him his heritage, says the Lord.

  • Deut 19:14
    67%

    14 Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 17:20
    67%

    20 So that his heart may not be lifted up over his countrymen, and he may not be turned away from the orders, to one side or the other: but that his life and the lives of his children may be long in his kingdom in Israel.

  • Ps 94:14
    67%

    14 The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;

  • Ezra 9:12
    66%

    12 So now do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or do anything for their peace or well-being for ever; so that you may be strong, living on the good of the land, and handing it on to your children for a heritage for ever.

  • Prov 28:16
    66%

    16 The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.

  • Num 18:24
    66%

    24 For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

  • Ezek 46:2
    66%

    2 And the ruler is to go in through the covered way of the outer doorway outside, and take his place by the pillar of the doorway, and the priests will make his burned offering and his peace-offerings and he will give worship at the doorstep of the doorway; then he will go out, and the door will not be shut till the evening.

  • Ezek 46:19
    66%

    19 And he took me through by the way in at the side of the doorway into the holy rooms which are the priests', looking to the north: and I saw a place at the side of them to the west.

  • Ezek 18:17-18
    2 verses
    66%

    17 Who has kept his hand from evil-doing and has not taken interest or great profits, who has done my orders and been guided by my rules: he will certainly not be put to death for the evil-doing of his father; life will certainly be his.

    18 As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by force, and did what is not good among his people, truly, death will overtake him in his evil-doing.

  • Deut 32:9
    66%

    9 For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.

  • 1 Chr 16:18
    66%

    18 Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:

  • Gen 49:10
    66%

    10 The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule.