Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ezekiel 22:9 in context
Ezekiel 22:6–12
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“‘“Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
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In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
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Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
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In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
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One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
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In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord GOD.
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