Ezekiel 45:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.

Let it

Ezekiel 44:6

1 Peter 4:3

Remove

Take away

Nehemiah 5:1

1 Corinthians 6:7

Exactions

General references

1 Samuel 10:25

Bible References

Let it

And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations;

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

Remove

I likewise, my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver him that is laid waste out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

And the soldiers likewise asked him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said to them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages.

Take away

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Exactions

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Some remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and their feed.

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

General references

Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.