Ezekiel 33:25

For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?

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In The King James Version

Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

In Context

24Son of man, those who are living in these waste places in the land of Israel say, Abraham was but one, and he had land for his heritage: but we are a great number; the land is given to us for our heritage.

26You put your faith in your swords, you do disgusting things, everyone takes his neighbour's wife: are you to have the land for your heritage?

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Cross References

Genesis 9:4But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

Leviticus 7:20But he who is unclean when he takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 7:26And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.

Leviticus 19:26Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

Deuteronomy 12:16But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

Psalms 24:4He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 33:22-30

Message to Inhabitants of Judah; Rebuke to the Proud Jews. ( b. c. 587.) 21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten. 22 Now the hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. 23 Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,… Read the whole commentary →

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