Ezekiel 22:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

Taken gifts

Thou hast

Nehemiah 5:1

Greedily

And hast

Jeremiah 3:21

General references

Ezekiel 11:6

Bible References

Taken gifts

Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.

You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.

Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it.

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

Thou hast

And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man,

If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.

And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you.

Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have

Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.

Greedily

Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.

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And he said to them, Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount.

The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.

And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.

But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.

Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.

Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;

But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.

And hast

So this is what the Lord has said: Because you have not kept me in your memory, and because your back has been turned to me, you will even undergo the punishment of your evil designs and your loose ways.

You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth.

They had no memory of God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt;

Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days.

A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.

General references

And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have

Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it.

A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

You have made great the number of your dead in this town, you have made its streets full of dead men.