Ezekiel 24:6

God pronounces woe on the 'bloody city' whose rust, her ingrained guilt, will not come off. It identifies Jerusalem's deep, unremoved corruption.

Cross-references · 27

• Ezek 22:2“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
• Nah 3:1Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.
• 2 Kgs 24:4and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
• Nah 3:10Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
• Obad 1:11In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.
• Mic 7:2The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
• Ezek 22:27Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
• Rev 17:6I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
• Ezek 23:37–45For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.
• Ezek 11:11This will not be your cauldron, neither will you be the meat in the middle of it. I will judge you in the border of Israel.
• Ezek 11:6–9You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.
• Jer 6:29The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
• Ezek 24:11–13Then set it empty on its coals, that it may be hot, and its brass may burn, and that its filthiness may be molten in it, that its rust may be consumed.
• 1 Sam 14:40–42Then he said to all Israel, “You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.” The people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”
• 2 Sam 8:2He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
• Josh 7:16–18So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.
• Ezek 9:5–6To the others he said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him, and strike. Don’t let your eye spare, neither have pity.
• 2 Kgs 21:16Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
• Ezek 24:9Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
• Josh 10:22Then Joshua said, “Open the cave entrance, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me.”
• Ezek 22:12In 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 Yahweh.
• Rev 18:24In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.”
• Joel 3:3and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
• Matt 23:35that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
• Rev 11:7–8When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
• Ezek 22:6–9“‘“Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
• Jonah 1:7They all said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

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