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

Greedily

And hast

Jeremiah 3:21

General references

Ezekiel 11:6

Bible References

Taken gifts

Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.

You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not respect persons, nor take a gift. For a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Cursed is he who takes reward to kill an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; they do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

The pious has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men. For they all lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.

Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges evening wolves. They do not gnaw bones for the morning.

Thou hast

he has not given out on usury, nor has taken any increase, he has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has done judgment between man and man,

If you lend money to one of My people who is poor beside you, you shall not be to him as a money-lender, neither shall you lay upon him interest.

And if your brother has become poor, and his hand has failed with you, then you shall help him; yes, even if he is a stranger or a tenant, so that he may live with you.

You shall not lend for interest to your brother, interest of silver, interest of food, interest of anything that is loaned on interest.

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

he has not put out his money at interest, nor has he taken a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall not be moved forever.

Greedily

So are the ways of everyone who gains unjust gain; it takes away its owners' life.

Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough; and they are shepherds who cannot understand. They all look to their own way, every one for his gain, to his own end.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and pray at length as a pretense. Therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.

And he said to them, Continue to do no more than that commanded to you.

The Pharisee stood and prayed within himself in this way: God, I thank You that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector.

And Zaccheus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor. And in anything I accused anyone falsely, I restore it fourfold.

But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,

But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

Come now, rich ones, weep and howl for your hardships coming on.

Woe to them! For they went the way of Cain, and gave themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

And hast

So the Lord Jehovah says this: Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore bear also your wickedness and your adulteries.

You forgot the Rock who brought you forth, and ceased to care for God who formed you.

They forgot God their Deliverer, who had done great things in Egypt;

Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.

A voice was heard on the high places weeping, cryings of the sons of Israel; for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

General references

And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another.

You shall not lend for interest to your brother, interest of silver, interest of food, interest of anything that is loaned on interest.

Cursed is he who takes reward to kill an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

You have multiplied your dead in this city, and you have filled its streets with the dead.