Ezekiel 22:6 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 22:6

Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

KJV

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ASV

Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.

WEB

See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood.

YLT

Lo, princes of Israel--each according to his arm Have been in thee to shed blood.

DBT

Behold, the princes of Israel have been in thee to shed blood, each according to his power.

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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29 verses on the floor

Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
Luke 18:2
Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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They thirsted for it, and delighted in it, and whoever came within their power were sure to feel it; whoever lay at their mercy were sure to find none. (2.) There were those who carried tales to shed blood,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Rather, "The princes . . . each according to his power, were in thee, to shed blood" (as if this was the only object of their existence). "Power," literally, "arm"; they, who ought to have been patterns of justice, made their own arm of might their only law.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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H222091× in canon H8210114× in canon H5387134× in canon H4616272× in canon H1818360× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

EZE 22:6ISA 1:23 MIC 7:3
EZE 22:6EZE 22:27 ISA 1:23
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EZE 22:6ISA 1:23 ZEC 7:10
EZE 22:6ISA 1:23 EXO 23:8
EZE 22:6EZE 22:27 EZE 22:13
EZE 22:6JER 32:32 DAN 9:8
EZE 22:6JER 32:32 ISA 1:4-6
EZE 22:6JER 32:32 JER 2:26

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