Ezekiel 22:6

Translations

Modern

See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood.

Traditional

Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

Literal

Behold, the princes of Israel, each man to his arm, have come to be among you in order to pour out blood!

Latin

Ecce principes Israël singuli in brachio suo fuerunt in te, ad effundendum sanguinem.

Original

Hebrew

English

See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood.

Notes

Ezekiel 22:6–12

The charges against the people of Judah and their leaders came from God's law, especially from Leviticus 18–20; 25:1–55. Israel's many sins showed a failure to honor and trust the Lord and his commands. This unfaithfulness to their covenant with the Lord could lead to only one outcome: The people of Israel would face the covenant curses (Deuteronomy 8:19–20; 28:15–68).

Ezekiel 22:1–31

Jerusalem was the holy city where God had placed his name. It was the spiritual center of Judah. The city represented God’s presence among his people.

But Jerusalem had become corrupt and unclean. Instead of honoring God, the city was full of violence and bloodshed. Because of this sin, God’s wrath (his just anger against sin) would come upon the city.

Events

Prophecies of Ezekielc. 593 BC

Related verses

Isaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
Jeremiah 32:32
…because of all the evil the children of Israel and of Judah have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their officials, their priests and prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem.
Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was dressed in filthy garments as he stood before the angel.
Micah 3:9–11
Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,
Nehemiah 9:34
Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.
Daniel 9:8
O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.
Micah 3:1–3
Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
Jeremiah 2:26–27
As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets
Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Ezekiel, Book of Son of Man

Topics

Jerusalem: Catalogue of Abominations In Rulers: Wicked

Ezekiel 22:6

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