Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
Bible References
Eat
Isaiah 56:11
They are shameless dogs, that be never satisfied. The shepherds also in like manner have no understanding, but every man turneth his own way, everyone after his own covetousness, with all his power.
Zechariah 11:5
which shall be slain of those that possess them. Yet they take it for no sin, but they that sell them, say, 'The LORD be thanked, I am rich.' Yea, their own shepherds spare them not.
Ye kill
Ezekiel 19:3
One of her whelps she brought up, and it became a lion: it learned to spoil, and to devour folk.
Ezekiel 22:25
thy Prophets that are in thee are sworn together to devour souls, like as a roaring Lion that liveth by his prey. They receive riches and good, and make many widows in thee.
Ezekiel 33:25
And therefore tell them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: In the blood have ye eaten, your eyes have ye lift up to Idols, and have shed blood: shall ye then have the land in possession?
1 Kings 21:13
and there came in two unthrifty persons and sat before him. And the two unthrifty persons witnessed against Naboth before the people, saying, "Naboth did curse God and the king." And upon that they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones to death.
2 Kings 21:16
And thereto Manasseh shed innocent blood exceeding abundantly, in so much that he replenished Jerusalem in all corners, beside his sin wherewith he made Judah sin and to do evil in the sight of the LORD.
Isaiah 1:10
Hear the word of the LORD, ye tyrants of Sodom, and hearken unto the law of our God, thou people of Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 2:30
It is but lost labour, that I smite your children, for they receive not my correction. Your own sword destroyeth your prophets, like a devouring lion.
Jeremiah 22:17
Nevertheless, as for thine eyes and thine heart, they look upon covetousness, to shed innocent blood, and to do wrong and violence.'"
Lamentations 4:13
{Mem} Which nevertheless is come to pass for the sins of her prophets, and for the wickedness of her priests that have shed innocents' blood within her.
Micah 3:1
Hear, O ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye leaders of the house of Israel: Should not ye know, what were lawful and right?
Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers within her are as roaring lions: her judges are as wolves in the evening, which leave nothing behind them till the morrow.