Ezekiel 22:12

In you they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in you interest and usurious increase; and by oppression you have brought your wickedness to the full, and have forgotten me, says the Lord.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

In Context

11They have dealt unlawfully each one with his neighbor's wife; and each one in ungodliness has defiled his daughter-in-law: and in you they have humbled each one his sister, the daughter of his father.

13And if I shall strike my hand at your iniquities which you have accomplished, which you have wrought, and at your blood that has been shed in the midst of you,

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Cross References

Exodus 23:7You shall abstain from every unjust thing: you shall not kill the innocent and just, and you shall not justify the wicked for gifts.

Leviticus 25:35And if your brother who is with you become poor, and he fail in resources with you, you shall help him as a stranger and a sojourner, and your brother shall live with you.

Deuteronomy 16:19they shall not wrest judgment, nor favor persons, nor receive a gift; for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 27:25Cursed is he whoever shall have taken a bribe to + 27:25 Gr. to strike the life of innocent blood. kill an innocent man: and all the people shall say, So be it.

Nehemiah 5:1And the cry of the people and their wives was great against their brethren the Jews.

Psalms 15:5The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you are he that restores my inheritance to me. 1

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 22:2-17

The Sins of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 591.) 1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. 3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God , The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. 4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused… Read the whole commentary →

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