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Ezekiel 22:23

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prophecy;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lead;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The word of the Lord came to me:
Hebrew Names Version
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
King James Version
And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
English Standard Version
And the word of the Lord came to me:
New American Standard Bible
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
New Century Version
The Lord spoke his word to me, saying:
Amplified Bible
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
World English Bible
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord said:
Complete Jewish Bible
The word of Adonai came to me:
Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
The word of the Lord came to me. He said,
George Lamsa Translation
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Good News Translation
The Lord spoke to me again.
Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Literal Translation
And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayege:
American Standard Version
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
King James Version (1611)
And the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
English Revised Version
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,
Update Bible Version
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
New English Translation
The word of the Lord came to me:
New King James Version
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
New Living Translation
Again a message came to me from the Lord :
New Life Bible
The Word of the Lord came to me saying,
New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord came to me:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Revised Standard Version
And the word of the LORD came to me:
Young's Literal Translation
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:
THE MESSAGE
God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, tell her, ‘You're a land that during the time I was angry with you got no rain, not so much as a spring shower. The leaders among you became desperate, like roaring, ravaging lions killing indiscriminately. They grabbed and looted, leaving widows in their wake.

Contextual Overview

23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 24 Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no rain or thunderstorm has come in the day of wrath. 25 Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her. 26 Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them. 27 Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit. 28 And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing. 29 The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land. 30 And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one. 31 And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.

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Cross-References

Genesis 24:15
And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her arm.
Genesis 24:24
And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, Nahor's wife.
Genesis 24:47
And questioning her, I said, Whose daughter are you? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, and Milcah his wife. Then I put the ring on her nose and the ornaments on her hands.
Genesis 24:51
See, here is Rebekah: take her and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as the Lord has said.
Genesis 24:60
And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.
Genesis 24:67
And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his father's death.
Genesis 25:20
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.
Genesis 28:2
But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Romans 9:10
And not only so, but Rebecca being about to have a child by our father Isaac--

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the word of the Lord came unto me,.... The word of prophecy from the Lord, as the Targum:

saying; as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The sixth word of judgment. The special sins of princes, priests, and people.

Ezekiel 22:26

Violated - Better as in margin; to offer “violence” to the Law is to misinterpret it. It was the special office of the priests to keep up the distinction between “holy” and “unholy,” “clean” and “unclean” Leviticus 10:10.

Ezekiel 22:28

See the marginal reference note.

Ezekiel 22:30

The land might be said to perish for the lack of such interpositions as saved their forefathers when Moses “stood in the gap.” This was a proof of the general corruption, that there was not in the city sufficient righteousness to save it from utter destruction. Prince, prophet, priest, all fail.


 
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