Ezekiel 22:7
In you have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in you to their power to shed blood.
8You have despised mine holy things, and have profaned my sabbaths.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Honour your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Exodus 22:21You shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for all of you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 5:16Honour your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 27:19Cursed be he that perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Psalms 94:6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Proverbs 22:22Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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 →