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 hast said unto the rebellious, unto the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you -- of all your abominations, O house of Israel.

for sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

Remove

And also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury.

Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah.

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive for the widow.

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

These are the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,

And questioning him also were those warring, saying, 'And we, what shall we do?' and he said unto them, 'Do violence to no one, nor accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.'

Take away

And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews,

Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?

Exactions

For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.

Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

General references

And Samuel speaketh unto the people the right of the kingdom, and writeth in a book, and placeth before Jehovah; and Samuel sendeth all the people away, each to his house.