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Ezekiel 22:27
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Ezekiel 22:27
27Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
27*Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolues rauening the praye, to shed blood, and to destroy soules, to get dishonest gaine.
- Mic.3.11 zeph. 3.3.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 22:27
Rulers, chiefs, or persons of high rank and authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The middle or central part; the position among or surrounded by others.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · Webster 1828
The fierce predatory animal called a wolf in the KJV, often used figuratively of destroyers.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Preying with rapacity; voraciously devouring.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Booty or spoil taken by force; an animal or person hunted or seized.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
To pour out, spill, cast off, or cause to flow, especially blood.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
The fluid that circulates through the body and is associated with life; in KJV usage, also life, bloodshed and its guilt, kindred, human nature, blood shed in sacrifice, or the juice of grapes.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
To ruin, demolish, kill, consume, or bring to an end.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of, by almost any means.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Shameful, dishonourable, indecent, or lacking honesty and integrity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · Webster 1828
Profit, advantage, or increase; as a verb, to obtain or win.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
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Open the full verse study13¶ Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
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Open the full verse study6Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
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Open the full verse study23Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
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Open the full verse study3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
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Open the full verse study25There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
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Open the full verse study9¶ 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.
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Open the full verse study1WHEN I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
5In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
7They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
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Open the full verse study6But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
7Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
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Open the full verse study1GO to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
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Open the full verse study13And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
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Open the full verse study2Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
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Open the full verse study9Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
10They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
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Open the full verse study8¶ Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.
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Open the full verse study3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
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