But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst. Cross References Matthew 23:31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. Jeremiah 2:30 "I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion." Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end? Jeremiah 6:13 "For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit. Jeremiah 26:8 and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, "You must surely die! Jeremiah 26:9 How dare you prophesy in the name of the LORD that this house will become like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted!" And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD. Lamentations 2:14 The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading. Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. Treasury of Scripture For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her, the sins Lamentations 2:14 Jeremiah 5:31 Jeremiah 6:13 that Jeremiah 2:20 Jeremiah 26:8,9 Matthew 23:31,33-37 |
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