Ezekiel 22:1-12

Israel's Shedding of Blood

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 "And you, y son of man, z will you judge, will you judge a the bloody city? b Then declare to her all her abominations. 3 You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that c her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! 4 You have become guilty a by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought c your days near, the appointed time of 1 your years has come. d Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. 5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; e your name is defiled; f you are full of tumult.

6 "Behold, g the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 7 Father and mother h are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner i suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow i are wronged in you. 8 j You have despised my holy things and k profaned my Sabbaths. 9 l There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you m who eat on the mountains; n they commit lewdness in your midst. 10 In you o men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. 11 p One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; q another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; r another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter. 12 In you s they take bribes to shed blood; t you take interest and profit 2 and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but u me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

  1. Cross References
    Ezekiel 2:1
    And he said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.
  2. Cross References
    Ezekiel 20:4
    Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Let them know the abominations of their fathers.
  3. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:38
    And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
    Ezekiel 23:37
    For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.
    Ezekiel 24:6
    Therefore thus says the Lord God : Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.
    2 Kings 21:16
    Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
    Ezekiel 7:23
    Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
  4. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:2
    Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations.
    Ezekiel 20:4
    Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Let them know the abominations of their fathers.
  5. Cross References
    Ezekiel 21:25
    And you, O profane wicked one, prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment.
    Ezekiel 21:29
    While they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you - to place you on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.
  6. Cross References
    Ezekiel 22:2
    And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.
  7. Cross References
    Ezekiel 22:3
    You shall say, Thus says the Lord God : A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!
  8. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:14
    Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
  9. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:21
    How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
  10. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:2
    You who are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle.
  11. Cross References
    Ezekiel 22:27
    Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
  12. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 27:16
    "'Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
    Ephesians 6:2
    Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise).
    Exodus 20:12
    Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
  13. Cross References
    Exodus 22:21 - 22
    You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
  14. Cross References
    Exodus 22:21 - 22
    You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
  15. Cross References
    Ezekiel 22:26
    Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
  16. Cross References
    Ezekiel 20:13
    But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. "Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
  17. Cross References
    Leviticus 19:16
    You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.
    1 Samuel 22:9 - 19
    Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
  18. Cross References
    Ezekiel 18:6
    If he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity.
  19. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:43
    Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
  20. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:7 - 8
    You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
    Leviticus 20:11
    If a man lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
  21. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:20
    And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her.
    Jeremiah 5:8
    They were well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor's wife.
    Ezekiel 18:6
    If he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity.
  22. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:15
    You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
    Leviticus 20:12
    If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed perversion; their blood is upon them.
    Amos 2:7
    Those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned.
  23. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:9
    You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home.
    Leviticus 20:17
    If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity.
  24. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 27:25
    "'Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  25. Cross References
    Ezekiel 18:8
    Does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man.
  26. Cross References
    Ezekiel 23:35
    Therefore thus says the Lord God : Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring.
    Jeremiah 2:32
    Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
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