Bible Cross References
build up Zion
Jeremiah 22:13-17
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Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and is given nothing for his work;
14
who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and has cut out windows for himself, and the ceiling is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
15
Shall you reign, because you lust after cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him. Was this not knowledge of Me? says Jehovah.
17
But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and to do violence.
Ezekiel 22:25-28
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.
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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.
Habakkuk 2:9-12
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Woe to him who robs unjust gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil.
10
You have advised shame for your house, to cut off many peoples, and have sinned in your soul.
11
For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam shall answer it from the timbers.
12
Woe to him who builds a town with blood and establishes a city by iniquity.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, that do not leave the bones 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 expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish.