Ezekiel 23:45

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But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

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  • Lev 20:10 : 10 If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
  • Hos 6:5 : 5 Therefore, I will certainly cut you into pieces at the hands of the prophets; I will certainly kill you in fulfillment of my oracles of judgment; for my judgment will come forth like the light of the dawn.
  • Zech 1:6 : 6 But have my words and statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, not outlived your fathers? Then they paid attention and confessed,‘The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has indeed done what he said he would do to us, because of our sinful ways.’”
  • John 8:3-7 : 3 The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them 4 and said to Jesus,“Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery. 5 In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?” 6 (Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger. 7 When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied,“Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her.”
  • Lev 21:9 : 9 If a daughter of a priest profanes herself by engaging in prostitution, she is profaning her father. She must be burned to death.
  • Deut 22:21-24 : 21 the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you. 22 If a man is discovered in bed with a married woman both the man lying in bed with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel. 23 If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and goes to bed with her, 24 you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.
  • Jer 5:14 : 14 Because of that, the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, said to me,“Because these people have spoken like this, I will make the words that I put in your mouth like fire. And I will make this people like wood which the fiery judgments you speak will burn up.”
  • Ezek 16:38-43 : 38 I will punish you as an adulteress and murderer deserves. I will avenge your bloody deeds with furious rage. 39 I will give you into their hands and they will destroy your chambers and tear down your pavilions. They will strip you of your clothing and take your beautiful jewelry and leave you naked and bare. 40 They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords. 41 They will burn down your houses and execute judgments on you in front of many women. Thus I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer give gifts to your clients. 42 I will exhaust my rage on you, and then my fury will turn from you. I will calm down and no longer be angry. 43 “‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, declares the Sovereign LORD. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?
  • Ezek 23:36-39 : 36 The LORD said to me:“Son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment on Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominable deeds! 37 For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and their sons, whom they bore to me, they have passed through the fire as food to their idols. 38 Moreover, they have done this to me: In the very same day they desecrated my sanctuary and profaned my Sabbaths. 39 On the same day they slaughtered their sons for their idols, they came to my sanctuary to desecrate it. This is what they have done in the middle of my house.

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    38I will punish you as an adulteress and murderer deserves. I will avenge your bloody deeds with furious rage.

    39I will give you into their hands and they will destroy your chambers and tear down your pavilions. They will strip you of your clothing and take your beautiful jewelry and leave you naked and bare.

  • Ezek 23:36-37
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    36The LORD said to me:“Son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment on Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominable deeds!

    37For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and their sons, whom they bore to me, they have passed through the fire as food to their idols.

  • Ezek 23:43-44
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    43Then I said about the one worn out by adultery,‘Now they will commit immoral acts with her.’

    44They slept with her the way someone sleeps with a prostitute. In this way they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, promiscuous women.

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    9Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.

    10They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became notorious among women, and they executed judgments against her.

    11“Her sister Oholibah watched this, but she became more corrupt in her lust than her sister had been, and her acts of prostitution were more numerous than those of her sister.

  • Ezek 23:46-49
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    46“For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Bring up an army against them and subject them to terror and plunder.

    47That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.

    48I will put an end to the obscene conduct in the land; all the women will learn a lesson from this and not engage in obscene conduct.

    49They will repay you for your obscene conduct, and you will be punished for idol worship. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.”

  • Rev 19:2
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    2because his judgments are true and just. For he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and has avenged the blood of his servants poured out by her own hands!”

  • Ezek 16:41
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    41They will burn down your houses and execute judgments on you in front of many women. Thus I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer give gifts to your clients.

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    13מ(Mem) But it happened due to the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.

    14נ(Nun) They wander blindly through the streets, defiled by the blood they shed, while no one dares to touch their garments.

  • Ezek 23:29-30
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    29They will treat you with hatred, take away all you have labored for, and leave you naked and bare. Your nakedness will be exposed, just as when you engaged in prostitution and obscene conduct.

    30I will do these things to you because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

  • Isa 1:21
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    21Purifying Judgment How tragic that the once-faithful city has become a prostitute! She was once a center of justice, fairness resided in her, but now only murderers.

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    2“As for you, son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment, are you willing to pronounce judgment on the bloody city? Then confront her with all her abominable deeds!

    3Then say,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: O city, who spills blood within herself(which brings on her doom), and who makes herself idols(which results in impurity),

  • Ezek 24:7-8
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    7For her blood was in it; she poured it on an exposed rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.

    8To arouse anger, to take vengeance, I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

  • Ezek 16:35-36
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    35“‘Therefore O prostitute, Listen to the LORD’s message:

    36This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness was uncovered in your prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children you have given to them,

  • Jer 18:21
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    21So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

  • Isa 5:23
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    23They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.

  • Ezek 23:17
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    17The Babylonians crawled into bed with her. They defiled her with their lust; after she was defiled by them, she became disgusted with them.

  • Ezek 16:52
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    52So now, bear your disgrace, because you have given your sisters reason to justify their behavior. Because the sins you have committed were more abominable than those of your sisters; they have become more righteous than you. So now, be ashamed and bear the disgrace of making your sisters appear righteous.

  • Ezek 22:13
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    13“‘See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.

  • Ezek 22:9-11
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    9Slanderous men shed blood within you. Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; they commit obscene acts among you.

    10They have sexual relations with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.

    11One commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister– his father’s daughter– within you.

  • Jer 3:9
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    9Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone.

  • Job 31:11
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    11For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.

  • Ezek 23:13
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    13I saw that she was defiled; both of them followed the same path.

  • Ezek 23:7
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    7She bestowed her sexual favors on them; all of them were the choicest young men of Assyria. She defiled herself with all whom she desired– with all their idols.

  • Deut 22:21
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    21the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Ezek 36:17-18
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    17“Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their behavior and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her monthly period.

    18So I poured my anger on them because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it.

  • Deut 25:1
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    1If controversy arises between people, they should go to court for judgment. When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.

  • Ezek 23:3
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    3They engaged in prostitution in Egypt; in their youth they engaged in prostitution. Their breasts were squeezed there; lovers fondled their virgin nipples there.

  • Rev 16:6
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    6because they poured out the blood of your saints and prophets, so you have given them blood to drink. They got what they deserved!”

  • Ezek 11:21
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    21But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, says the Sovereign LORD.”

  • Lam 5:11
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    11They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.

  • Ezek 21:23
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    23But those in Jerusalem will view it as a false omen. They have sworn solemn oaths, but the king of Babylon will accuse them of violations in order to seize them.

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    26You rely on your swords and commit abominable deeds; each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Will you possess the land?’

  • Ezek 22:27
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    27Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey– shedding blood and destroying lives– so they can get dishonest profit.