Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 2:26
As the thief is ashamed when he is found out, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their rulers, and their priests, and their prophets;
Ezra 9:7
Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt, and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to shame of faces, to this day.
Nehemiah 9:32-34
32
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and awesome Mighty God, who keeps covenant and mercy: Do not let all the trouble seem small before You that has found us, our kings and our rulers, our priests and our prophets, our fathers and all Your people, since the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.
33
However You are just in all that has come upon us; for You have dealt faithfully, but we have done wickedly.
34
Neither our kings nor our princes, our priests nor our fathers, have kept Your Law, nor paid attention to Your commandments and Your testimonies, with which You testified against them.
Isaiah 1:4-6
4
Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have scorned the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged backward.
5
Why will you be stricken any more? Will you rebel more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint.
6
From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it; only wounds and bruises and fresh stripes; they have not been closed nor bound up, nor has it been softened with oil.
Isaiah 1:23-6
Isaiah 9:14
Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and bulrush, in one day.
Isaiah 9:15
The elder and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
Ezekiel 22:6
Behold, the rulers of Israel: each one was in you by his power to shed blood in you.
Ezekiel 22:25-29
25
The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.
26
Her priests have violated My Law and defiled My holy things; they have not divided between the holy and profane, nor have they declared between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
27
Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, and to get dishonest gain.
28
Her prophets plastered them with whitewash, seeing vain visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah has not spoken.
29
The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the sojourner.
Daniel 9:6
And we have not heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our rulers, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
Daniel 9:8
O Lord, shame of face belongs to us, to our kings, to our rulers and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
Micah 3:1-5
1
And I said, Hear now, O heads of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know justice.
2
You who hate good and love evil, who tear their skin off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3
who also eat the flesh of My people, and flay their skin off from them; and they break their bones and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh in the kettle.
4
Then they shall cry out to Jehovah, but He will not answer them. He will even hide His face from them at that time, because they have done evil in their doings.
5
Thus says Jehovah concerning the prophets who mislead My people, who bite with their teeth and call out, Peace! And whoever does not put anything into their mouth, they even prepare a war against him.
Micah 3:9-12
9
Now hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, you who abhor justice and pervert all equity,
10
who build up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity:
11
Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for money; yet they lean on Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come upon us.
12
Therefore, on account of you, Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the forest.
Zephaniah 3:1-4
1
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
2
She did not give heed to the voice; she did not receive correction; she did not trust in Jehovah; she did not draw near to her God.
3
Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, that do not leave the bones till the morning.
4
Her prophets are wanton, treacherous people; her priests have profaned the sanctuary; they have done violence to the Law.