Ezekiel 22:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Behold, the princes of Israel, every one, were in you using their power to shed blood.

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  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they do not judge the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
  • Dan 9:8 : 8 O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O leaders of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know justice? 2 Who hate good and love evil; who strip their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.
  • Zech 3:3 : 3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel.
  • Jer 2:26-27 : 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, 27 Saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
  • Jer 5:5 : 5 I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
  • 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 provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
  • Neh 9:34 : 34 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our forefathers kept Your law, nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies, which You testified against them.

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  • Ezek 22:7-13
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    7 In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

    8 You have despised My holy things, and have profaned My sabbaths.

    9 In you are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in you they eat on the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness.

    10 In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness: in you they have humbled her who was set apart for impurity.

    11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

    12 In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord GOD.

    13 Behold, therefore I have struck My hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.

  • 27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

  • 25 And you, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,

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

    23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they do not judge the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

  • 12 Princes were hung up by their hands; the faces of elders were not honored.

  • Ezek 22:4-5
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    4 You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and have defiled yourself with your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years: therefore I have made you a reproach to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

    5 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, who are infamous and much vexed.

  • Mic 3:9-10
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    9 Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

    10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

  • 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.

  • 10 The princes of Judah were like those who remove a boundary: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

  • 1 Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

  • 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • Zeph 3:3-4
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    3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw the bones until the morning.

    4 Her prophets are light and treacherous people: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

  • Lam 4:13-14
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    13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in her midst,

    14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have defiled themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

  • 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

  • 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • 13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

  • 11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were as one of them.

  • 14 And with him ten leaders, one chief leader from each house throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.

  • Isa 3:5-6
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    5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the child shall act proudly against the elder, and the vile against the honorable.

    6 When a man shall take hold of his brother in his father’s house, saying, You have clothing, be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand:

  • 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell therein.

  • 6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

  • 3 Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

  • 10 You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul.

  • 34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

  • 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

  • Hos 6:8-9
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    8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, and it is polluted with blood.

    9 And as bands of robbers wait for someone, so the company of priests murder on the way by agreement: for they commit lewdness.

  • 2 And the rebels are deep in slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

  • 5 Because you have had a perpetual hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

  • 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O leaders of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know justice?

  • 12 For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

  • 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

  • 9 Thus says the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, says the Lord GOD.

  • 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled; I will do unto them according to their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

  • 3 All your rulers have fled together, they are captured by the archers: all who are found in you are captured together, who have fled from afar.

  • 8 The LORD has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son: and, behold, you are caught in your own mischief, because you are a bloody man.

  • 28 Therefore, I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

  • 17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell therein.