Ezekiel 22:9

Slanderers in the city incite bloodshed, people worship at idol shrines on the mountains, and commit lewd acts. Speech, worship, and conduct are all corrupted.

Cross-references · 31

• Hos 4:14I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
• Hos 4:2There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
• Lev 19:16“‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
• Hos 4:10They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.
• Exod 20:16“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
• Prov 10:18He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
• Ps 50:20You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
• Rev 12:9–10The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
• Ezek 18:11or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbor’s wife,
• Ezek 16:43“‘“Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
• 1 Cor 10:18–21Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
• Matt 26:59Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
• Ezek 18:6and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor’s wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity,
• Ezek 18:15who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor’s wife,
• Ps 101:5I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
• Jer 38:4–6Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”
• Jer 37:13–15When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”
• Hos 6:9As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.
• Prov 26:22The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.
• Prov 18:8The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
• Ps 106:28They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
• Jer 6:28They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
• Acts 24:5For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
• Acts 6:11–13Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
• Ezek 24:13In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
• Exod 23:1“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
• Hos 7:4They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
• Judg 20:6I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
• 1 Kgs 21:10–13Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”
• Jer 9:4“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
• Acts 24:13Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

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