Ezekiel 34:3

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Summary

Ezekiel 34:3

Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

Eat

Isaiah 56:11

Zechariah 11:5

Ye kill

Bible References

Eat

And these anxious dogs are insatiable, and even the shepherds did not know enough to understand: they all look to their own ways, each one for his gain, from his quarter.

whose buyers slayed them and held themselves not guilty; and he that sold them said, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and not even their own shepherds had compassion on them.

Ye kill

And she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey and to devour men.

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken treasures and honour; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

Therefore say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said; Ye eat with the blood and lift up your eyes toward your idols and shed blood, and shall ye possess this land?

Then the two men, sons of Belial, came in and sat before him; and those men of Belial witnessed against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones that he died.

Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very much until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another besides his sin with which he made Judah sin so that they would do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Hear the word of the LORD, ye princes of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

I have smitten your children in vain; they have received no correction; your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness and for to shed innocent blood and for oppression and for violence, to do it.

Mem For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

And I said, Hear, I pray you, O princes of Jacob, and ye heads of the house of Israel. Did it not pertain to you to know that which is right?

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not leave a bone for tomorrow.