Ezekiel 22:6

Modern English Version

Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:34

For our kings, princes, priests, and fathers have failed to keep Your law and did not obey Your commandments and Your warnings even when You confronted them.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, whose fangs are like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among mortals.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are intent only on your covetousness and on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and violence.

Jeremiah 32:32

because of all the evil of the Israelites and of the Judahites which they have done to provoke Me to anger, they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 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.

Ezekiel 21:12

Cry out and howl, son of man; for it shall be against My people, it shall be against all the officials of Israel. Terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon My people; therefore strike your thigh.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her officials in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to obtain dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 22:3

Then say, Thus says the Lord God: The city sheds blood in her midst, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself.

Ezekiel 45:8

In the land shall be his possession in Israel. And My officials shall no more oppress My people. And the rest of the land they shall give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

Daniel 9:8

O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, to our officials, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who conceive wickedness, to those who devise evil on their beds! At morning’s light they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves who leave nothing until the morning.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men; her priests have profaned the sanctuary and done violence to the law.

Zechariah 3:3

Now Joshua had on filthy garments and was standing before the angel.