Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
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Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
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Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
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Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey: to shed blood, and to destroy souls, so as to get dishonest gain.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 22:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 22:13 “ ‘ “Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you.
- Isaiah 1:23 Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
- Ezekiel 22:6 “ ‘ “Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
- Ezekiel 19:3-6 She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men. The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. “ ‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion. He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
- Ezekiel 22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it.
- Ezekiel 45:9 “ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- Hosea 7:1-7 When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside. They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face. They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened. On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers. For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire. They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.
- Micah 3:2-3 You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
- Micah 3:9-11 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”
- Micah 7:8 Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
- Zephaniah 3:3 Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
- Matthew 21:13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”
- James 2:6-7 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts? Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
- James 5:1-4 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof [are]…
Eze 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.
Ver. 27. Her princes in the midst thereof.] Lupis ferociores et voraciores erant. There was in this state, as physicians say there is in some diseases, corruptio totius substantiae, a general defection: and here they are particularly told of it; so, as Isocrates saith in his oration to Philip King of Macedonia, That which is spoken to all is spoken to none. See Mic 3:11 Zep 3:3.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Her princes, as before, Eze 22:25,26. Princes; rulers of…
Her princes, as before, Eze 22:25,26. Princes; rulers of all sorts, who should have crushed oppressors and defended the oppressed. Wolves; creatures greedy, bloody, and crafty, resembling dogs that men make use of to defend their folds; so the authority which God had given to defend is by these hypocrites perverted to satisfy the bloody and greedy appetite of tyrannical governors among the Jews: possibly the prophet may tax the degeneracy and baseness of these rulers hereby. Shed blood; innocent blood; a crying sin in princes, who have God’s power committed to them to preserve the innocent.
Destroy souls; undo and ruin families, cutting off the fathers, and impoverishing the widow and fatherless.
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Get dishonest gain; confiscating estates not forfeited.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves…
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey,.... The king and his nobles, those of the first rank and quality, who ought to have protected the persons and property of the meaner sort; these were like "wolves" themselves, subtle, voracious, and cruel, preying upon harmless persons, as those creatures do upon the sheep and lambs:
to shed blood; innocent blood, as the Targum:
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and to destroy souls; take away lives, under a pretence of treasonable practices, and all with a view to get dishonest gain; that their estates may be forfeited, their goods confiscated, and got into their hands.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Destroy souls - Ruin families; cutting off the fathers,…
Destroy souls - Ruin families; cutting off the fathers, and impoverishing the widow, and fatherless.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 27. Her princes] Are as bad as her…
Verse 27. Her princes] Are as bad as her priests; they are rapacious, and grievously oppress the people by unjust impositions in order to increase their revenues.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Eze 22:27-28. Her princes are like wolves — The…
Eze 22:27-28. Her princes are like wolves — The chief officers of state stick at no method of injustice and oppression whereby they may increase their substance, though it be by taking away the lives and estates of the innocent: see the margin. And her prophets have daubed them, &c. — Have daubed over the evil practices of the great men, by palliating devices: or, have flattered them in their ways of sin and violence, and encouraged them to proceed therein with promises, which, like ill-tempered mortar, will deceive them, though all seems at present smooth and safe.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain princes--who should have employed the influence of their position…
princes--who should have employed the influence of their position for the people's welfare, made "gain" their sole aim.
wolves--notorious for fierce and ravening cruelty (Mic 3:2-3, Mic 3:9-11; Joh 10:12).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 27. Princes — Rather, captains (Jer_26:10). The subordinate officers…
27. Princes — Rather, captains (Jer_26:10). The subordinate officers are in full sympathy with the iniquitous practices of the court and temple. They are after the spoils at any price. (Compare Jer_6:13.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 27. Her princes] The “princes” here are the chiefs…
27. Her princes] The “princes” here are the chiefs or leaders of the people, cf. Jer_26:10; Jer_36:12.
get dishonest gain] Cf. Jer_6:13; Jer_8:10. The term is used pretty generally, of selfish advantage.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (27) Her princes.—These are not only the kings, but…
(27) Her princes.—These are not only the kings, but also the nobles and those in authority at court—in other words, the ruling class. Their injustice and violence is a constant theme for prophetic rebuke.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Wolves. (comp. Hab_1:8; Zep_3:3; Mat_7:15; Act_20:29)
Wolves. (comp. Hab_1:8; Zep_3:3; Mat_7:15; Act_20:29)
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