Ezekiel 46:18

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The prince will not take away any of the people’s inheritance by oppressively removing them from their property. He will give his sons an inheritance from his own possessions so that my people will not be scattered, each from his own property.’”

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  • Ezek 45:8 : 8 of the land. This will be his property in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress my people, but the land will be allotted to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
  • 1 Kgs 21:19 : 19 Say to him,‘This is what the LORD has said:“Haven’t you committed murder and taken possession of the property of the deceased?”’ Then say to him,‘This is what the LORD has said:“In the spot where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood they will also lick up your blood– yes, yours!”’”
  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey– shedding blood and destroying lives– so they can get dishonest profit.
  • Ezek 34:3-6 : 3 You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the choice animals, but you do not feed the sheep! 4 You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled over them. 5 They were scattered because they had no shepherd, and they became food for every wild beast. 6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.
  • Ezek 34:21 : 21 Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad,
  • Ps 68:18 : 18 You ascend on high, you have taken many captives. You receive tribute from men, including even sinful rebels. Indeed the LORD God lives there!
  • Ps 72:2-4 : 2 Then he will judge your people fairly, and your oppressed ones equitably. 3 The mountains will bring news of peace to the people, and the hills will announce justice. 4 He will defend the oppressed among the people; he will deliver the children of the poor and crush the oppressor.
  • Ps 78:72 : 72 David cared for them with pure motives; he led them with skill.
  • Isa 11:3-4 : 3 He will take delight in obeying the LORD. He will not judge by mere appearances, or make decisions on the basis of hearsay. 4 He will treat the poor fairly, and make right decisions for the downtrodden of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and order the wicked to be executed.
  • Isa 32:1-2 : 1 Justice and Wisdom Will Prevail Look, a king will promote fairness; officials will promote justice. 2 Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from a rainstorm; like streams of water in a dry region and like the shade of a large cliff in a parched land.
  • Jer 23:5-6 : 5 “I, the LORD, promise that a new time will certainly come when I will raise up for them a righteous branch, a descendant of David. He will rule over them with wisdom and understanding and will do what is just and right in the land. 6 Under his rule Judah will enjoy safety and Israel will live in security. This is the name he will go by:‘The LORD has provided us with justice.’
  • Mic 1:1-2 : 1 ¶ Introduction This is the LORD’s message that came to Micah of Moresheth during the time of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. 2 The Judge is Coming Listen, all you nations! Pay attention, all inhabitants of earth! The Sovereign LORD will act as a witness against you; the Lord will accuse you from his majestic palace.
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so. 2 They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 God Will Judge Judah’s Sinful Leaders I said,“Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You ought to know what is just, 2 yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones. 3 You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.
  • John 10:28 : 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.
  • Eph 4:8 : 8 Therefore it says,“When he ascended on high he captured captives; he gave gifts to men.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 46:16-17
    2 verses
    82%

    16“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: If the prince should give a gift to one of his sons as his inheritance, it will belong to his sons, it is their property by inheritance.

    17But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will be his until the year of liberty; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance will only remain with his sons.

  • Ezek 45:7-9
    3 verses
    81%

    7“‘For the prince there will be land on both sides of the holy allotment and the allotted city, alongside the holy allotment and the allotted city, on the west side and on the east side; it will be comparable in length to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border

    8of the land. This will be his property in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress my people, but the land will be allotted to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

    9“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of my people, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Ezek 48:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21“The rest, on both sides of the holy allotment and the property of the city, will belong to the prince. Extending from the eight and a quarter miles of the holy allotment to the east border, and westward from the eight and a quarter miles to the west border, alongside the portions, it will belong to the prince. The holy allotment and the sanctuary of the temple will be in the middle of it.

    22The property of the Levites and of the city will be in the middle of that which belongs to the prince. The portion between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin will be for the prince.

  • Num 34:18
    72%

    18You must take one leader from every tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.

  • Num 36:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.

    8And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of his fathers.

    9No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance.”

  • Ezek 44:28
    72%

    28“‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.

  • Ezek 45:16
    72%

    16All the people of the land will contribute to this offering for the prince of Israel.

  • Deut 18:8
    71%

    8He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family’s inheritance.

  • Deut 18:2
    70%

    2They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

  • Num 36:4
    70%

    4And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”

  • Ezek 46:10
    70%

    10When they come in, the prince will come in with them, and when they go out, he will go out.

  • Ezek 46:8
    70%

    8When the prince enters, he will come by way of the porch of the gate and will go out the same way.

  • Ezek 37:25
    69%

    25They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it– they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.

  • Isa 34:17
    69%

    17He assigns them their allotment; he measures out their assigned place. They will live there permanently; they will settle in it through successive generations.

  • Lev 25:46
    69%

    46You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

  • Num 26:54-55
    2 verses
    68%

    54To a larger group you will give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you will give a smaller inheritance. To each one its inheritance must be given according to the number of people in it.

    55The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.

  • Job 18:19
    68%

    19He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

  • Num 33:54
    68%

    54You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone’s inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral tribes.

  • Ezek 44:3
    68%

    3Only the prince may sit in it to eat a sacrificial meal before the LORD; he will enter by way of the porch of the gate and will go out by the same way.”

  • Ezek 36:12
    68%

    12I will lead people, my people Israel, across you; they will possess you and you will become their inheritance. No longer will you bereave them of their children.

  • Ezek 47:14
    68%

    14You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers; this land will be assigned as your inheritance.

  • Num 27:9-11
    3 verses
    67%

    9and if he has no daughter, then you are to give his inheritance to his brothers;

    10and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;

    11and if his father has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his relative nearest to him from his family, and he will possess it. This will be for the Israelites a legal requirement, as the LORD commanded Moses.’”

  • Lev 25:41
    67%

    41but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

  • Lev 25:34
    67%

    34Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.

  • Ezek 48:14
    67%

    14They must not sell or exchange any of it; they must not transfer this choice portion of land, for it is set apart to the LORD.

  • Num 18:20
    67%

    20Duties of the Levites The LORD spoke to Aaron,“You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property among them– I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.

  • Ezek 47:22-23
    2 verses
    67%

    22You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the resident foreigners who live among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

    23In whatever tribe the resident foreigner lives, there you will give him his inheritance,” declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Deut 19:14
    67%

    14Laws Concerning Witnesses You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, which will have been defined in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Deut 17:20
    67%

    20Then he will not exalt himself above his fellow citizens or turn from the commandments to the right or left, and he and his descendants will enjoy many years ruling over his kingdom in Israel.

  • Ps 94:14
    67%

    14Certainly the LORD does not forsake his people; he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him.

  • Ezra 9:12
    66%

    12Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, and do not take their daughters in marriage for your sons. Do not ever seek their peace or welfare, so that you may be strong and may eat the good of the land and may leave it as an inheritance for your children forever.’

  • Prov 28:16
    66%

    16The prince who is a great oppressor lacks wisdom, but the one who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

  • Num 18:24
    66%

    24But I have given to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered to the LORD as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance.”

  • Ezek 46:2
    66%

    2The prince will enter by way of the porch of the gate from the outside, and will stand by the doorpost of the gate. The priests will provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he will bow down at the threshold of the gate and then go out. But the gate will not be closed until evening.

  • Ezek 46:19
    66%

    19Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests which faced north. There I saw a place at the extreme western end.

  • Ezek 18:17-18
    2 verses
    66%

    17refrains from wrongdoing, does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; he will surely live.

    18As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.

  • Deut 32:9
    66%

    9For the LORD’s allotment is his people, Jacob is his special possession.

  • 1 Chr 16:18
    66%

    18saying,“To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”

  • Gen 49:10
    66%

    10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; the nations will obey him.