Ezekiel 22:27

Tree of Life Version

Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing at prey, spilling blood and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:14

Furthermore, all the leading kohanim and the people became very unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. They defiled the House of Adonai, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.

Proverbs 17:23

The wicked one receives a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious and friends with thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and chases after rewards. They do not defend the orphan, nor does a widow’s case come to them.

Jeremiah 34:19

—the princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem, the officers, the kohanim, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf—

Jeremiah 41:7

Yet it was that as soon as they came within of the city that Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them within the cistern-pit.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them. A desert wolf will ravage them. A leopard watches over their cities. Everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces, For their rebellion is great, their backslidings frequent.

Lamentations 4:13

Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her kohanim, who shed in her midst the blood of the tzadikim .

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and crumbs of bread, to kill those who should not die and to save those who should not live, by lying to My people, who listen to lies.’”

Ezekiel 22:13

“Now look, I clap My hands at your dishonest gain that you have made and at your bloodshed in your midst.

Ezekiel 22:25

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing prey. They have devoured lives, they take wealth and valuables, they multiply widows in her midst.

Ezekiel 22:3

Say, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘City that spills blood in her midst and makes idols for herself that defile—her time has come!

Ezekiel 22:6

“Behold, each prince of Israel has used his own arm’s strength in you to shed blood.

Ezekiel 33:31

So they come to you, as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words—but they do not do them—for with their mouth they express doting love, but their heart goes after their own dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 34:3

You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fat ones. But you do not take care of the sheep.

Ezekiel 36:12

I will cause people, my people Israel, to walk upon you. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance. You will no longer deprive them of children.’”

Ezekiel 45:8

It will be land for him as a possession in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress My people. They will give land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.”

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus says Adonai Elohim: “Let it be enough for you, princes of Israel. Get rid of violence and destruction, execute justice and righteousness, take away your oppression from My people”—it is a declaration of Adonai.

Ezekiel 46:18

The prince must not take from the people’s inheritance, evicting them wrongfully out of their property. He must give inheritance to his sons out of his own property, so that My people will not be displaced, anyone from his own property.”

Micah 7:8

Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I have fallen—I will arise. Though I sit in darkness, Adonai is my light.

Habakkuk 2:9

Oy to one surely getting unjust gain for his house— to set his nest on high, to escape the reach of calamity!

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are wolves of the night, leaving nothing but bones for morning.

Matthew 21:13

And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of thieves’!”

Matthew 7:15

“Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

Acts 20:29

I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

Acts 24:9

The Judean leaders also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were true.