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Ezekiel 22:6
6“Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been intending to shed blood in you.
Ezekiel 22:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Look, the princes of Israel: each one has used his power to shed blood in you.
Context of Ezekiel 22:6
4You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols which you have made. Thus you have caused your day [of judgment and punishment] to approach and have arrived at [the completion of] your years; therefore, I have made you an object of scorn to the [pagan] nations and a thing to be mocked by all countries. 5Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you [infamous one] of ill repute, full of turmoil. “Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been intending to shed blood in you. 7In you they have treated father and mother lightly. They have oppressed the stranger among you; and in your presence they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. 8You have despised and scorned My sacred things and have profaned My Sabbaths.
Read all of Ezekiel 22Ezekiel 22:6 word by word
הִנֵּה֙ נְשִׂיאֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִ֥ישׁ לִזְרֹע֖וֹ הָ֣יוּ בָ֑ךְ לְמַ֖עַן שְׁפָךְ־דָּֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 22:6
- Ezekiel 22:27Her princes within her are like wolves tearing and devouring the prey, shedding blood and destroying lives in order to get dishonest gain.
- Nehemiah 9:34Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept Your law Or paid attention to Your commandments and Your warnings which You have given them.
- Isaiah 1:23Your rulers are rebels And companions of thieves; Everyone loves bribes And chases after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, Nor does the widow’s cause come before them [instead they delay or turn a deaf ear].
- Jeremiah 2:26“As the thief is shamed when he is caught, So the house of Israel is shamed— They, their kings, their leaders, Their priests, and their prophets—
- Jeremiah 5:5I will go to the great [men] And speak to them, For they [must] know the way of the Lord, The ordinance of their God.” But [I found the reverse to be true, that] they too had all alike broken the yoke [of God’s law] And had burst the bonds [of obedience to Him].
- Jeremiah 32:32because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah which they have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Daniel 9:8O Lord, to us belong confusion and open shame—to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers—because we have sinned against You.
- Micah 3:1And I said, “Hear now, heads of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know and administer justice?
- Zechariah 3:3Now Joshua was clothed with filthy (nauseatingly vile) garments and was standing before the Angel [of the Lord].
- Micah 2:1Woe (judgment is coming) to those who devise wickedness And plot evil on their beds! When morning comes, they practice evil Because it is in the power of their hands.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 22:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Behold, the princes - Ye are a vile and murderous people, and your princes have been of the same character. Like people, like prince.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Render it: Behold the princes of Israel, each according to his might (literally “arm”) have been in thee in order to shed blood. They looked to might not right.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-12The charges against the people of Judah and their leaders came from God's law, especially from Leviticus 18–20; 25:1–55. Israel's many sins showed a failure to honor and trust the Lord and his commands. This unfaithfulness to their covenant with the Lord could lead to only one outcome: The people of Israel would face the covenant curses (Deuteronomy 8:19–20; 28:15–68).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. 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.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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