Ezekiel 22:6

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See, the princes of Israel, each one by his own might, have been in you to shed blood.

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  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Your rulers are rebellious and companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, and the widow's case never comes before them.
  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and destroy lives to make unjust gain.
  • Dan 9:8 : 8 O LORD, shame covers us—our kings, our rulers, and our ancestors—because we have sinned against You.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 Then I said: "Hear now, leaders of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not your responsibility to know justice? 2 You who hate good and love evil; you tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones. 3 You eat the flesh of my people, strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot, like flesh in a cauldron.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, you who despise justice and twist all that is right: 10 You build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the LORD, saying, 'Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us.'
  • Zech 3:3 : 3 Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel.
  • Jer 2:26-27 : 26 As a thief is ashamed when caught, so the house of Israel is put to shame—they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets. 27 They say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’ They have turned their backs to me and not their faces. Yet in their time of trouble, they will say, ‘Arise and save us!’
  • Jer 5:5 : 5 So I will go to the great leaders and speak to them, for they should know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. But they too, as one, have broken off the yoke and torn off the bonds.
  • Jer 32:32 : 32 It is because of all the evil that the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have done to provoke Me to anger. Their kings, princes, priests, prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem have all been guilty.
  • Neh 9:34 : 34 Our kings, leaders, priests, and ancestors did not obey Your law or pay attention to Your commandments and warnings You gave them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 22:7-13
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    7 Within you, they have treated father and mother with contempt; they have oppressed the foreigner in your midst; they have wronged the orphan and the widow.

    8 You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths.

    9 The men in you who slander for the purpose of shedding blood eat at the high places; they commit lewdness in your midst.

    10 In you, they have dishonored their fathers' nakedness; they have violated women during their impurity.

    11 One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

    12 In you, they accept bribes to shed blood; they take interest and increase unlawfully. You have gained profit in extorting your neighbors, and you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

    13 See, I will strike my hands together in anger at the dishonest gain you have made and the bloodshed that has been done in your midst.

  • Ezek 22:27
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    27 Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and destroy lives to make unjust gain.

  • Ezek 21:25
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    25 Mark out a road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites and against Judah, into fortified Jerusalem.

  • Isa 1:22-23
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    22 Your silver has become dross, your wine is diluted with water.

    23 Your rulers are rebellious and companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, and the widow's case never comes before them.

  • Lam 5:12
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    12 Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.

  • Ezek 22:4-5
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    4 You have become guilty because of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you made. You have brought your days near and have come to the end of your years. Therefore, I have made you a disgrace to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.

    5 Those near and those far from you will mock you, you who are defiled in name and full of turmoil.

  • Mic 3:9-10
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    9 Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, you who despise justice and twist all that is right:

    10 You build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17 But your eyes and heart are set only on your dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and violence.

  • Hos 5:10
    72%

    10 The leaders of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

  • Ezek 19:1
    72%

    1 Now you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3 Their hands are skilled at doing evil: the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, and the powerful speak out their selfish desires. Together they weave a web of corrupt schemes.

  • Zeph 3:3-4
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    3 Her officials are roaring lions in her midst; her judges are wolves of the evening, leaving nothing for the morning.

    4 Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men; her priests have profaned the sanctuary and have done violence to the law.

  • Lam 4:13-14
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    13 It happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

    14 They wandered blindly through the streets, defiled by blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.

  • Jer 2:26
    71%

    26 As a thief is ashamed when caught, so the house of Israel is put to shame—they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2 There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • Jer 6:13
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    13 For from the least to the greatest, all are greedy for unjust gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

  • Obad 1:11
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    11 On the day you stood aloof, on the day strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.

  • Josh 22:14
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    14 With him, they sent ten leaders—one leader for each tribe of Israel, each the head of a family division among the Israelite clans.

  • Isa 3:5-6
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    5 The people will oppress one another—man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young will act arrogantly toward the elderly, and the dishonored against the honored.

    6 A man will seize his brother in his father’s house, saying, 'You have a cloak, you be our leader; take charge of this ruin!'

  • Hab 2:8
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    8 Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of peoples will plunder you—because of human bloodshed and violence against the land, the cities, and everyone who lives in them.

  • Ezek 11:6
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    6 You have multiplied your slain in this city and filled its streets with the dead.

  • Ps 79:3
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    3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.

  • Hab 2:10
    70%

    10 You have planned disgrace for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your own life.

  • Jer 2:34
    70%

    34 Even on your skirts is found the blood of the innocent poor. You did not find them breaking in, yet it is because of all these things.

  • Ezek 22:29
    70%

    29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.

  • Hos 6:8-9
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    70%

    8 Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.

    9 As marauders lie in wait for someone, so a band of priests murder on the road to Shechem; they commit heinous crimes.

  • Hos 5:2
    69%

    2 Rebels have gone deep into slaughter, but I am disciplining them all.

  • Ezek 35:5
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    5 Because you have harbored eternal hostility and delivered the Israelites to the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment,

  • Mic 3:1
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    1 Then I said: "Hear now, leaders of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not your responsibility to know justice?

  • Mic 6:12
    69%

    12 Her rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

  • Hos 7:3
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    3 They please the king with their evil and the princes with their lies.

  • Ezek 45:9
    69%

    9 This is what the Lord God says: Enough, princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression and practice justice and righteousness. Remove your exactions from my people, declares the Lord God.

  • Ezek 7:27
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    27 The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct and judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

  • Isa 22:3
    69%

    3 All your rulers have fled together; they were captured without a bow. All who were found were bound together, though they had fled far away.

  • 2 Sam 16:8
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    8 The Lord has repaid you for all the bloodshed in the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. The Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. You are now caught in your own evil, for you are a man of bloodshed."

  • Isa 43:28
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    28 So I will disgrace the officials of the sanctuary, and deliver Jacob to destruction and Israel to scorn.

  • Hab 2:17
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    17 The violence you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of beasts will terrify you, because of human bloodshed and violence against the land, the city, and all who live in it.