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 prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.
• Hos 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
• Lev 19:16You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
• Hos 4:10They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.
• Exod 20:16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
• Prov 10:18The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
• Ps 50:20You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
• Rev 12:9–10And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
• Ezek 18:11though the father has done none of them: Indeed, the son eats at the mountain and defiles his neighbor’s wife.
• Ezek 16:43Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?
• 1 Cor 10:18–21Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?
• Matt 26:59Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
• Ezek 18:6He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.
• Ezek 18:15He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.
• Ps 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
• Jer 38:4–6Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to die, for he is discouraging the warriors who remain in this city, as well as all the people, by speaking such words to them; this man is not seeking the well-being of these people, but their ruin.”
• Jer 37:13–15But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”
• Hos 6:9Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.
• Prov 26:22The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
• Prov 18:8The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
• Ps 106:28They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
• Jer 6:28All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
• Acts 24:5We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
• Acts 6:11–13Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”
• Ezek 24:13Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.
• Exod 23:1“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
• Hos 7:4They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
• Judg 20:6Then I took my concubine, cut her into pieces, and sent her throughout the land of Israel’s inheritance, because they had committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.
• 1 Kgs 21:10–13But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, ‘You have cursed both God and the king!’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
• Jer 9:4“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
• Acts 24:13Nor can they prove to you any of their charges against me.

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