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?

Shall ye

General references

Bible References

Ye eat

Genesis 9:4
However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.
Leviticus 3:17
This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”
Leviticus 7:26
Wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.
Leviticus 17:10
“Anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who live among them who eats any blood, I will turn against that person who eats blood and cut him off from his people.
Leviticus 19:26
“You are not to eat anything with blood in it. You are not to practice divination or sorcery.
Deuteronomy 12:16
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
1 Samuel 14:32
they rushed to the plunder, took sheep, cattle, and calves, slaughtered them on the ground, and ate meat with the blood still in it.
Acts 15:20
but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.
Acts 21:25
With regard to the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter containing our decision that they should keep themselves from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”

Lift up

Ezekiel 18:6
He does not eat at the mountain shrines or raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or come near a woman during her menstrual impurity.
Deuteronomy 4:19
When you look to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the array of heaven—do not be led astray to bow down and worship them. The Lord your God has provided them for all people everywhere under heaven.
Psalm 24:4
The one who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who has not set his mind on what is false,
and who has not sworn deceitfully.
Jeremiah 44:15
However, all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, all the women standing by—a great assembly—and all the people who were living in the land of Egypt at Pathros answered Jeremiah,

And shed

Ezekiel 9:9
He answered me: “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity. For they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land; He does not see.’
Ezekiel 22:6
“Look, every prince of Israel within you has used his strength to shed blood.

Shall ye

Jeremiah 7:9
“Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?

General references

Numbers 33:56
And what I had planned to do to them, I will do to you.”
Deuteronomy 15:23
But you must not eat its blood; pour it on the ground like water.

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