Bible Cross References
build up Zion
Jeremiah 22:13-17
13
[Woe to] him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper chambers by injustice, who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work.
14
You have built for yourself a well-proportioned house, [with] airy chambers, fitted with windows, and paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
15
Shall you reign because you are provoked with your father Ahaz? They shall not eat, and they shall not drink: it is better for you to execute justice and righteousness.
16
They understood not, they judged not the cause of the afflicted, nor the cause of the poor- is not this your not knowing Me? Says the Lord.
17
Behold, your eyes are not good, nor your heart, but [they go] after your covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.
Ezekiel 22:25-28
25
whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and your widows are multiplied in the midst of you.
26
Her priests also have set at nought My law, and profaned My holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.
27
Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain.
28
And her prophets that daub them shall fall, that see vanities, that prophesy falsehoods, saying, Thus says the Lord, when the Lord has not spoken.
Habakkuk 2:9-12
9
Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils.
10
You have devised shame to your house, you have utterly destroyed many nations, and your soul has sinned.
11
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beetle out of the timber shall speak.
12
Woe to him that builds a city with blood, and establishes a city by unrighteousness.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes within her were as roaring lions, her judges as the wolves of Arabia; they remained not till the morning.
Matthew 27:25
And all the people answered and said, "His blood [be] on us and on our children."
John 11:50
nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish."