Ezekiel 7:23
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23 ‘Make a chain,
For (A)the land is filled with crimes of blood,
And the city is full of violence.
Ezekiel 9:9
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9 Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and (A)the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity; for they say, (B)‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and (C)the Lord does not see!’
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Jeremiah 27:2
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2 “Thus says the Lord to me: ‘Make for yourselves bonds and yokes, (A)and put them on your neck,
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Hosea 4:2
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2 By swearing and lying,
Killing and stealing and committing adultery,
They break all restraint,
With bloodshed [a]upon bloodshed.
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- Hosea 4:2 Lit. touching
Ezekiel 11:6
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6 (A)You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.”
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2 Kings 21:16
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16 (A)Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the Lord.
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Zephaniah 3:3-4
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3 (A)Her princes in her midst are roaring lions;
Her judges are (B)evening wolves
That leave not a bone till morning.
4 Her (C)prophets are insolent, treacherous people;
Her priests have [a]polluted the sanctuary,
They have done (D)violence to the law.
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 3:4 Or profaned
Nahum 3:10
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10 Yet she was carried away,
She went into captivity;
(A)Her young children also were dashed to pieces
(B)At the head of every street;
They (C)cast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound in chains.
Micah 7:2
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2 The (A)faithful[a] man has perished from the earth,
And there is no one upright among men.
They all lie in wait for blood;
(B)Every man hunts his brother with a net.
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- Micah 7:2 Or loyal
Micah 2:2
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2 They (A)covet fields and take them by violence,
Also houses, and seize them.
So they oppress a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.
Ezekiel 22:27
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27 Her (A)princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy [a]people, and to get dishonest gain.
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- Ezekiel 22:27 Lit. souls
Ezekiel 22:13
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13 “Behold, therefore, I (A)beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst.
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Ezekiel 22:9
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9 In you are (A)men who slander to cause bloodshed; (B)in you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness.
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Ezekiel 22:3-6
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3 Then say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “The city sheds (A)blood in her own midst, that her time may come; and she makes idols within herself to defile herself. 4 You have become guilty by the blood which you have (B)shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years; (C)therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all countries. 5 Those near and those far from you will mock you as [a]infamous and full of tumult.
6 “Look, (D)the princes of Israel: each one has used his [b]power to shed blood in you.
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- Ezekiel 22:5 Lit. defiled of name
- Ezekiel 22:6 Lit. arm
Ezekiel 19:3-6
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3 She brought up one of her cubs,
And (A)he became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey,
And he devoured men.
4 The nations also heard of him;
He was trapped in their pit,
And they brought him with chains to the land of (B)Egypt.
5 ‘When she saw that she waited, that her hope was lost,
She took (C)another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
6 (D)He roved among the lions,
And (E)became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey;
He devoured men.
Ezekiel 8:17
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17 And He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have (A)filled the land with violence; then they have returned to provoke Me to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their nose.
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Lamentations 3:7
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7 (A)He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;
He has made my chain heavy.
Jeremiah 40:1
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Jeremiah with Gedaliah the Governor(A)
40 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord (B)after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all who were carried away captive from Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.
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Jeremiah 22:17
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17 “Yet(A) your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness,
For shedding innocent blood,
And practicing oppression and violence.”
Jeremiah 7:6
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6 if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, (A)or walk after other gods to your hurt,
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Jeremiah 2:34
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34 Also on your skirts is found
(A)The blood of the lives of the poor innocents.
I have not found it by [a]secret search,
But plainly on all these things.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:34 digging
Isaiah 59:7
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7 (A)Their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed (B)innocent blood;
(C)Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and (D)destruction are in their paths.
Isaiah 59:3
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3 For (A)your hands are defiled with [a]blood,
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken lies,
Your tongue has muttered perversity.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 59:3 bloodshed
Isaiah 1:15
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15 (A)When you [a]spread out your hands,
I will hide My eyes from you;
(B)Even though you make many prayers,
I will not hear.
Your hands are full of [b]blood.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:15 Pray
- Isaiah 1:15 bloodshed
2 Kings 24:4
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4 (A)and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon.
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