Ezekiel 7:23 Make
a chain:
for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Ezekiel 9:9 Then said he unto me,
The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [
is] exceeding great,
and the land is
full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
Ezekiel 22:2-
6 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou
judge, wilt thou judge the
bloody city? yea,
thou shalt shew her all her abominations. ... Behold,
the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their
power to shed blood.
Ezekiel 22:9 In thee are
men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee
they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee
they commit lewdness.
Ezekiel 22:12 In thee have they
taken gifts to shed blood;
thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast
greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion,
and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 22:27 Her
princes in the midst thereof [
are] like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [
and] to destroy souls,
to get dishonest gain.
Ezekiel 24:6-
9 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Woe to the bloody city,
to the pot whose scum [
is] therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it!
bring it out piece by piece;
let no lot fall upon it. ... Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Woe to the bloody city!
I will even make the pile for fire great.
2 Kings 21:16 Moreover
Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from
one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing [
that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
Isaiah 1:15 And
when ye spread forth
your hands,
I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye
make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of
blood.
Jeremiah 2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction:
your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 2:34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents:
I have not found it by
secret search, but upon all these.
Jeremiah 7:6 [
If] ye
oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow,
and shed not innocent blood in this place,
neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
Jeremiah 7:9 Will ye
steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely,
and burn incense unto Baal,
and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
Lamentations 4:13 For
the sins of her prophets, [
and] the iniquities of her priests,
that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
Hosea 4:2-
3 By
swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and
blood toucheth blood. ... Therefore shall
the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish,
with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Micah 3:2-
3 Who
hate the good, and
love the evil; who
pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; ... Who also
eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones,
and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
Micah 3:10 They
build up Zion with
blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Micah 7:2 The
good [
man] is perished out of the earth: and [
there is] none upright among men:
they all lie in wait for blood; they
hunt every man his brother with a net.
Zephaniah 3:3 Her
princes within her [
are] roaring lions; her judges [
are]
evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Matthew 23:35 That
upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from
the blood of righteous Abel
unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
