Tree of Life Version
Ezekiel 22:6
6“Behold, each prince of Israel has used his own arm’s strength in you to shed blood.
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 in your blood that you have spilled, and are defiled by your idols that you have made. So you have brought your days near, and have come up to your years. Therefore I have made you a disgrace to the nations and a mockery to all the lands. 5Those near and far from you will mock you—with a defiled name and full of turmoil.’ “Behold, each prince of Israel has used his own arm’s strength in you to shed blood. 7Father and mother have been treated with contempt; the outsider has been oppressed in your midst; the orphan and the widow have been mistreated in you. 8You have despised My holy things and profaned My Shabbatot.
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 in her midst are like wolves tearing at prey, spilling blood and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
- Nehemiah 9:34Our kings, our leaders, our kohanim, and our ancestors have not kept Your Torah or paid attention to Your mitzvot or Your testimonies by which you have admonished them.
- Isaiah 1:23Your princes are rebellious and friends with thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and chases after rewards. They do not defend the orphan, nor does a widow’s case come to them.
- Jeremiah 2:26As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel is shamed— they, their kings, their princes, their kohanim and their prophets.
- Jeremiah 5:5I will go to the distinguished and speak to them. Surely they know the way of Adonai, the ordinance of their God. But they too had broken the yoke and torn off the bonds.
- Jeremiah 32:32because of all the evil the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done to provoke Me—they, their kings, their princes, their kohanim, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Daniel 9:8Adonai, shame covers our face—our kings, our leaders, our fathers—because we have sinned against you.
- Micah 3:1Then I said: “Hear, leaders of Jacob, rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?
- Zechariah 3:3Now Joshua was wearing filthy garments and standing before the angel
- Micah 2:1Oy to them who scheme wickedness, who work out evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning, they do it, for the power is in 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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