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

You must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

This is a long lasting law for generations to come wherever you live. Never eat any fat or blood.'

Never eat the blood of any bird or animal no matter where you live.

If Israelites or foreigners eat any blood, I will condemn them and exclude them from the people.

Do not eat any meat with blood still in it. Never cast evil spells, and never consult fortunetellers.

Never eat the blood. Pour it on the ground like water.

They grabbed the food they had captured from the Philistines and started eating. They even killed sheep and cows and calves right on the ground and ate the meat without draining the blood.

We should write to them that they should abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from things strangled and from blood.

Concerning those of the nations who have believed, we write: they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

Lift up

and does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period;

Do not be tempted to bow down and worship the sun or moon or stars (the host or army of the heavens). Jehovah put them there a heritage for all the people under the heavens.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up (turned) to falsehood and has not sworn deceitfully.

Then all the men who knew that their wives offered sacrifices to other gods, and all the women who were standing there, including the Israelites who lived in southern Egypt, a large crowd in all said to me:

And shed

He answered me: The wickedness of the nations of Israel and Judah is terrible! The land is filled with murder, and the city is filled with wrongdoing. They think that Jehovah has abandoned the land and that he does not see.

See how all the princes of Israel who live in you have used their power to shed blood (murder people).

Shall ye

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known?

General references

If you do not drive them out, I will destroy you, as I planned to destroy them.

Do not eat its blood! Pour it out on the ground like water.