Judgment against Idolatry
(Deuteronomy 4:15–31; Deuteronomy 12:29–32)
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them. Ezk 19:9Ezk 13:17Ezk 20:46Ezk 21:2Ezk 25:2Ezk 33:28Ezk 34:14Ezk 35:12
You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. Lev 26:30Ezk 36:1-4Ezk 36:8Isa 27:9Jer 2:20Jer 22:29Jer 3:23Jer 3:6 Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols. 2Ch 14:5Lev 26:301Ki 13:22Ch 34:4-52Ki 23:142Ki 23:16-20Ezk 6:13Ezk 6:5-6 I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars. 2Ki 23:142Ki 23:16Jer 8:1-2
Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out. Ezk 5:14Isa 6:11Mic 1:7Zec 13:2Ezk 6:4Lev 26:30Ezk 16:39Ezk 30:13 The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD. 2Ki 19:19Dan 4:35-37Dan 6:26-27Exo 14:18Exo 14:4Exo 7:5Ezk 11:10Ezk 11:12
A Remnant to Be Blessed
Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands. Ezk 14:22Ezk 12:16Isa 6:13Jer 44:14Jer 30:11Jer 44:28Ezk 5:12Ezk 5:2
Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations. Ezk 20:43Isa 7:13Isa 43:24Job 42:6Psa 78:40Deu 4:29-31Ezk 20:7Zec 10:9 And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them. Ezk 6:7Jer 44:28Jer 5:12-14Dan 9:12Ezk 14:22-23Zec 1:6
This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague. Ezk 5:12Ezk 14:21Ezk 21:14-17Ezk 25:6Ezk 9:4Jer 24:10Jer 30:7Jol 1:15 He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them. Ezk 5:13Dan 9:7Lam 4:11Lam 4:22Isa 40:2
Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols. Ezk 20:28Hos 4:131Ki 14:23Jer 2:202Ki 16:4Ezk 6:4-7Isa 1:29Isa 57:5-7 I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. 1 Then they will know that I am the LORD.’” Isa 5:25Ezk 20:33-34Isa 9:12Ezk 14:13Ezk 16:27Isa 10:4Isa 26:11Isa 9:17