Ezekiel 22:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ The princes of Israel in you, everyone according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been intending to shed blood.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.

Common English Bible

⁶ Look, Israel’s princes, every one of them, have joined forces to shed blood in you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Behold, the leaders of Israel have each used his arm to shed blood within you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Behold, the princes of Israel: every one hath employed his arm in thee to shed blood.

Ezekiel 22:6 Cross References

Nehemiah 9:34

our kings, our officials, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law or heeded the commandments and the warnings that you gave them.

Proverbs 30:14

there are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan, and the widow’s cause does not come before them.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and heart are only on your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.

Jeremiah 32:32

because of all the evil of the people of Israel and the people of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger—they, their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 5:5

Let me go to the rich and speak to them; surely they know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.

Ezekiel 21:12

Cry and wail, O mortal, for it is against my people; it is against all Israel’s princes; they are thrown to the sword, together with my people. Ah! Strike the thigh!

Ezekiel 22:27

Its officials within it are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 22:3

You shall say: Thus says the Lord God: A city! Shedding blood within itself; its time has come; making its idols, defiling itself.

Ezekiel 45:8

of the land. It is to be his property in Israel. And my princes shall no longer oppress my people, but they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes.

Daniel 9:8

Open shame, O Lord, falls on us, our kings, our princes, and our ancestors because we have sinned against you.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.

Zephaniah 3:3

The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning.

Zephaniah 3:4

Its prophets are reckless, faithless persons; its priests have profaned what is sacred; they have done violence to the law.

Zechariah 3:3

Now Joshua was wearing filthy clothes as he stood before the angel.