Ezekiel 33 · Verse 25

Ezekiel 33:25

Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
Ezekiel 33:25, King James Version

Ezekiel 33:25 in other translations

BSBTherefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?
WEBTherefore tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land?
ASVWherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
YLTTherefore say unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: With the blood ye do eat, And your eyes ye lift up unto your idols, And blood ye shed, and the land ye inherit!
DARBYTherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood; and shall ye possess the land?
BBEFor this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?
WebsterWherefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes towards your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

What does Ezekiel 33:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
25. eat with the blood--in opposition to the law (Le 19:26; compare Ge 9:4). They did so as an idolatrous rite.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 25 Ye eat with the blood - Abraham was righteous, ye are unrighteous. Eating of blood, in any way dressed, or of flesh from which the blood had not been extracted, was and is in the sight of God abominable. All such practices he has absolutely and for ever forbidden. Let the vile blood-eaters hear and tremble. See the note on Act 15:20, and the passages in the margin.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 33:21-29

Those are unteachable indeed, who do not learn their dependence upon God, when all creature-comforts fail. Many claim an interest in the peculiar blessings to true believers, while their conduct proves them enemies of God. They call this groundless presumption strong faith, when God's testimony declares them entitled to his threatenings, and nothing else.

Read the full comment on Ezekiel 33:21-29 →

Ezekiel 33:25 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לָכֵן֩la.Khen<to> thereforeH3651
אֱמֹ֨ר'e.MorsayH559
אֲלֵיהֶ֜ם'a.lei.Hemto themH413
כֹּֽה\־koh-thusH3541
אָמַ֣ר\׀'a.Marhe saysH559
אֲדֹנָ֣י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136
יְהֹוִ֗הYah.wehYahwehH3069
עַל\־'al-withH5921
הַדָּ֧ם\׀ha.Damthe bloodH1818
תֹּאכֵ֛לוּto.Khe.luyou eatH398
וְעֵינֵכֶ֛םve.'ei.ne.Khemand eyes yourH5869
תִּשְׂא֥וּtis.'Uyou lift upH5375
אֶל\־'el-toH413
גִּלּוּלֵיכֶ֖םgi.lu.lei.Khemidols yourH1544
וְדָ֣םve.Damand bloodH1818
תִּשְׁפֹּ֑כוּtish.Po.khuyou shedH8210
וְהָאָ֖רֶץve.ha.'A.retzand ¿ landH776
תִּירָֽשׁוּ\׃ti.Ra.shuwill you possess?H3423

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Cross references for Ezekiel 33:25

  • Jeremiah 7:9-10

    Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

  • Deuteronomy 12:16

    Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

  • Genesis 9:4

    But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

  • Ezekiel 22:6

    Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

  • Leviticus 3:17

    It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

  • Ezekiel 18:6

    And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour’s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,

  • Ezekiel 22:27

    Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

  • 1 Samuel 14:32-34

    And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood. Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the Lord, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day. And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the Lord in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.

  • Leviticus 19:26

    Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

  • Acts 15:29

    That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

  • Ezekiel 9:9

    Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.

  • Acts 15:20-21

    But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ye eat.
Ge 9:4; Le 3:17; 7:26,27; 17:10-14; 19:26; De 12:16; 1Sa 14:32-34
Ac 15:20,21,29; 21:25
lift up.
18:6,12,15; De 4:19; Ps 24:4; Jer 44:15-19
and shed.
9:9; 22:6,9,27
shall ye.
Jer 7:9,10

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Context

  • Ezekiel 33:24

    Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

  • Ezekiel 33:25

    Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

  • Ezekiel 33:26

    Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour’s wife: and shall ye possess the land?

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Ezekiel 33:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Por tanto, diles: Así ha dicho el Señor Jehová: ¿Con sangre comeréis, y á vuestros ídolos alzaréis vuestros ojos, y sangre derramaréis, y poseeréis vosotros la tierra?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
C’est pourquoi dis-leur: Ainsi dit le Seigneur, l’ Éternel: Vous mangez avec le sang, et vous levez vos yeux vers vos idoles, et vous versez le sang: et vous hériteriez le pays?
German
Elberfelder 1871
Darum sprich zu ihnen: So spricht der Herr, Jehova: Ihr esset mit dem Blute, und erhebet eure Augen zu euren Götzen und vergießet Blut, und ihr solltet das Land besitzen?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Idcirco dices ad eos: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Qui in sanguine comeditis, et oculos vestros levatis ad immunditias vestras, et sanguinem funditis, numquid terram hæreditate possidebitis?