Ezekiel 22:6

World English Bible (2000)

Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.

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  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither 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, that they may get dishonest gain.
  • Dan 9:8 : 8 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 on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice? 2 You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."
  • Zech 3:3 : 3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing 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 who tell wood, 'You are my father;' and a stone, 'You have brought me out:' 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 know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God." But these with one accord have 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 fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

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  • Ezek 22:7-13
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    7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

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

    9 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.

    10 In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.

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

    12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

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

  • Ezek 22:27
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    27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

  • Ezek 21:25
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    25 You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the 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 bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

  • Lam 5:12
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    12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

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

    5 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one [and] full of tumult.

  • Mic 3:9-10
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    9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

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

  • Jer 22:17
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    17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

  • Hos 5:10
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    10 The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

  • Ezek 19:1
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    1 Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

  • Mic 7:3
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    3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

  • Zeph 3:3-4
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    3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

    4 Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.

  • Lam 4:13-14
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    13 [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

    14 They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments.

  • Jer 2:26
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    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;

  • Hos 4:2
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    2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

  • Jer 6:13
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    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.

  • Obad 1:11
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    11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.

  • Josh 22:14
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    14 and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were everyone of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.

  • Isa 3:5-6
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    5 The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

    6 Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand."

  • Hab 2:8
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    8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

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

  • Ps 79:3
    70%

    3 Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

  • Hab 2:10
    70%

    10 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

  • Jer 2:34
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    34 Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.

  • Ezek 22:29
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    29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

  • Hos 6:8-9
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    70%

    8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

    9 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

  • Hos 5:2
    69%

    2 The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.

  • Ezek 35:5
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    5 Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

  • Mic 3:1
    69%

    1 I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?

  • Mic 6:12
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    12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

  • Hos 7:3
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    3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

  • Ezek 45:9
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    9 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Ezek 7:27
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    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 to them after their way, and according to their own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

  • Isa 22:3
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    3 All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.

  • 2 Sam 16:8
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    8 Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!"

  • Isa 43:28
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    28 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult."

  • Hab 2:17
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    17 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.