Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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,
The sins
General references
Bible References
The sins
Lamentations 2:14 Your prophets have seen for you
False and foolish visions;
And they have notexposed your iniquity
So as to restore you from captivity,
But they haveseen for you false and misleading oracles.
False and foolish visions;
And they have not
So as to restore you from captivity,
But they have
Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely,
And the priests ruleon their own authority;
And My peoplelove it so!
But what will you do at the end of it?
And the priests rule
And My people
But what will you do at the end of it?
Jeremiah 6:13 “For from the least of them even to the greatest of them,
Everyone isgreedy for gain,
And from the prophet even to the priest
Everyonedeals falsely.
Everyone is
And from the prophet even to the priest
Everyone
Jeremiah 14:14
Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.
Jeremiah 23:11 “For both prophet and priest are polluted;
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.
Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Micah 3:11 Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe,
Herpriests instruct for a price
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord saying,
“Is not the Lord in our midst?
Calamity will not come upon us.”
Her
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord saying,
“
Calamity will not come upon us.”
Zephaniah 3:3 Her princes within her are roaring lions,
Her judges arewolves at evening;
They leave nothing for the morning.
Her judges are
They leave nothing for the morning.
That
Jeremiah 2:20 “For long ago I broke your yoke
And tore off your bonds;
But you said, ‘I will not serve!’
For on everyhigh hill
And under every green tree
You have lain down as a harlot.
And tore off your bonds;
But you said, ‘I will not serve!’
For on every
And under every green tree
You have lain down as a harlot.
Jeremiah 26:8
When Jeremiah finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You must die!
Matthew 23:31 So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
Luke 11:47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.
Acts 7:52 Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become;
1 Thessalonians 2:15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men,
General references
Ezekiel 11:6
You have multiplied your slain in this city, filling its streets with them.”
Malachi 2:1
“And now this commandment is for you, O priests.