Ezekiel 45:9
This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord.
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10Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:1Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.
Job 22:9You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.
Psalms 82:2How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)
Jeremiah 22:3This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.
Ezekiel 44:6And say to the uncontrolled children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: O you children of Israel, let it be enough for you, among the disgusting things which you have done,
Micah 2:1A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 45:2-9
The Division of the Holy Land. ( b. c. 574.) 1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the Lord , a holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about. 2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof. 3… Read the whole commentary →