Ezekiel 11:6
What does Ezekiel 11:6 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 11:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949You have made great the number of your dead in this town, you have made its streets full of dead men.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Ye multiplied your wounded in this city, And filled its out-places with the wounded.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752You have killed a great many in this city, and you have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
Context
v.5And the Spirit of Jehovah fell upon me, and he said unto me, Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Thus have ye said, O house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.
v.6This passage
v.7Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron; but ye shall be brought forth out of the midst of it.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 22:9
Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.
- 2 Kings 21:16
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah.
- Jeremiah 7:6
if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
- Micah 3:10
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
- Ezekiel 22:2
And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
- Matthew 23:35
that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar.
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