Ezekiel 33:25

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

Ye eat

Lift up

And shed

Ezekiel 9:9

Ezekiel 22:6

Shall ye

Jeremiah 7:9

General references

Numbers 33:56

Deuteronomy 15:23

Bible References

Ye eat

But you shall not eat meat along with its life, that is, its blood.

It is a permanent statute for your generations wherever you may be, that you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’”

Moreover, you are not to eat any blood [of any kind], whether of bird or animal, in any of your dwelling places.

‘Any man from the house of Israel, or any stranger living temporarily among you, who eats any blood, against that person I shall set My face and I will cut him off from his people [excluding him from the atonement made for them].

‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination [using omens or witchcraft] or soothsaying.

Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

[When night came and the oath ended] the people rushed greedily upon the spoil. They took sheep, oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and they ate them [raw] with the blood [still in them].

but that we write to them that they are to abstain from anything that has been contaminated by [being offered to] idols and from sexual impurity and from [eating the meat of] what has been strangled and from [the consumption of] blood.

But with regard to the Gentiles who have believed [in Christ], we have sent them a letter with our decision that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from [consuming] blood and from [the meat of] what has been strangled and from sexual immorality.”

Lift up

and does not eat [at the pagan shrines] on the mountains or raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her [monthly] time of impurity—

And beware that you do not raise your eyes toward heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and let yourselves be led astray and worship them and serve them, [mere created bodies] which the Lord your God has allotted to [serve and benefit] all the peoples under the whole heaven.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to what is false,
Nor has sworn [oaths] deceitfully.

Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning sacrifices to other gods, and all the women who were standing by, a large group, including all the people who were living in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah, saying,

And shed

Then He said to me, “The wickedness (guilt) of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of blood and the city is full of perversion and injustice; for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land; the Lord does not see [what we are doing].’

“Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been intending to shed blood in you.

Shall ye

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear [oaths] falsely, offer sacrifices or burn incense to Baal, and follow after other gods that you have not known,

General references

And as I [the Lord] planned to do to them, so I will do to you.’”

Only you shall not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.