In the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me. Ezk 8:1Ezk 24:1Ezk 26:1Ezk 29:1Ezk 29:17Ezk 30:20Ezk 31:1Ezk 32:1
The LORD’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will not be inquired of by you.”’ Mat 15:8-9Mic 3:7Pro 28:9Psa 50:15-211Sa 28:6Ezk 14:3-4Ezk 14:7-8Ezk 20:31
“Will you judge them, son of man? Will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers. Ezk 22:2Ezk 23:361Co 6:2Act 7:51-52Ezk 14:14Ezk 14:20Ezk 16:2-3Ezk 23:45 Tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, ‘I am the LORD your God;’ Deu 7:6Exo 3:8Exo 4:31Exo 6:6-7Ezk 20:15Ezk 20:23Ezk 47:14Gen 14:22 in that day I swore to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands. Exo 3:8Ezk 20:15Jer 32:22Dan 8:9Psa 48:2Zec 7:14Dan 11:16Dan 11:41 I said to them, ‘Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes. Don’t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’ Lev 18:3Ezk 20:8Deu 29:16-18Ezk 18:31Lev 11:442Ch 15:8Exo 16:12Exo 20:2
“‘“But they rebelled against me and wouldn’t listen to me. They didn’t all throw away the abominations of their eyes. They also didn’t forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt. Ezk 20:21Ezk 20:7Ezk 5:13Ezk 7:8Isa 63:10Deu 9:7Exo 32:4-6Ezk 20:13 But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt. Ezk 39:7Ezk 20:22Exo 32:12Ezk 20:14Ezk 36:21-221Sa 12:221Sa 4:8Deu 32:26-27 So I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. Exo 13:17-18Exo 14:17-22Exo 15:22Exo 20:2 I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them. Lev 18:5Rom 10:5Deu 4:8Gal 3:12Luk 10:28Ezk 20:13Neh 9:13-14Psa 147:19-20 Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them. Ezk 20:20Ezk 37:281Th 5:23Lev 21:23Deu 5:12-15Exo 19:5-6Exo 20:8-11Exo 31:13-17
“‘“But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them. Ezk 20:21Ezk 20:8Deu 9:8Ezk 20:24Isa 56:6Exo 32:10Num 14:11-12Num 14:22 But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out. Ezk 20:9Ezk 20:22Ezk 36:22-23Eph 1:12Eph 1:6 Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands, Psa 95:11Psa 106:26Deu 1:34-35Ezk 20:23Heb 3:11Heb 3:18Heb 4:3Num 14:23-30 because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols. Num 15:39Ezk 14:3-4Ezk 20:8Act 7:39-43Amo 5:25-26Exo 32:1-8Ezk 20:13-14Ezk 23:8 Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness. Ezk 11:13Jer 4:27Jer 5:181Sa 24:10Ezk 7:2Ezk 8:18Ezk 9:10Nam 1:8-9 I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. 1Pe 1:18Act 7:51Deu 4:3-6Ezk 20:7Psa 78:6-8Zec 1:2-4Jer 2:7Jer 3:9 I am the LORD your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them. Ezk 36:27Deu 5:32Jer 3:22-23Psa 105:45Deu 12:1Ezk 11:20Ezk 37:24Psa 81:9-10 Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’ Isa 58:13Jer 17:22Exo 31:13-17Ezk 20:12Ezk 44:24Neh 13:15-22Exo 20:11Jer 17:24
“‘“But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. Ezk 20:13Ezk 20:8Deu 31:27Num 21:52Ch 34:212Ch 34:25Act 13:18Dan 11:36 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out. Ezk 20:14Ezk 20:9Isa 48:9-11Jer 14:21Psa 78:38Ezk 20:17Jer 14:7Job 13:21 Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries, Lev 26:33Deu 28:64-68Deu 32:26-27Deu 32:40Ezk 20:15Jer 15:4Psa 106:27Rev 10:5-6 because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols. Ezk 20:16Ezk 6:9Amo 2:4Ezk 20:13Deu 4:19Ezk 18:12Ezk 18:15Ezk 18:6 Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they couldn’t live. Psa 81:12Ezk 20:39Isa 66:42Th 2:9-11Deu 28:36Deu 4:27-28Ezk 14:9-11Ezk 20:26 I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.”’ Ezk 6:7Isa 63:17Lev 18:212Ki 17:17Ezk 16:20-21Ezk 20:312Ch 28:32Ch 33:6
“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Moreover, in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. Rom 2:24Ezk 2:7Ezk 3:11Ezk 3:27Ezk 3:4Ezk 18:24Rev 13:5 For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There they also made their pleasant aroma, and there they poured out their drink offerings. Ezk 6:13Isa 57:5-7Jer 2:7Jer 3:6Jos 23:14Neh 9:22-26Ezk 16:19Ezk 20:15 Then I said to them, ‘What does the high place where you go mean?’ So its name is called Bamah 1 to this day.”’ Ezk 16:24-25Ezk 16:31
“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Do you pollute yourselves in the way of your fathers? Do you play the prostitute after their abominations? Jer 16:12Jdg 2:19Jer 7:26Act 7:51Jer 9:14Mat 23:32Num 32:14 When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? Should I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you! Ezk 20:26Jer 7:31Psa 106:37-391Sa 28:5-62Ki 3:13-14Deu 18:10-12Ezk 14:3-4Ezk 16:20
“‘“That which comes into your mind will not be at all, in that you say, ‘We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.’ Ezk 11:5Jer 44:17Dan 5:4Deu 4:28Psa 139:2Rev 9:201Sa 8:5Deu 28:36 As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, I will be king over you. Jer 21:5Ezk 8:18Jer 42:18Jer 44:6Dan 9:11-12Lam 2:4 I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out. Amo 9:9-10Ezk 20:38Ezk 34:16Isa 27:9-13Jer 44:6Lam 2:4 I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face. Hos 2:14Ezk 17:20Ezk 19:13Ezk 20:36Jer 2:35Rev 12:14Ezk 38:22Ezk 38:8 Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” says the Lord GOD. 1Co 10:5-10Num 11:1-35Ezk 20:13Ezk 20:21Exo 32:7-35Num 14:1-45Num 16:1-50Num 25:1-18 “I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. Jer 33:13Lev 27:32Mat 25:32-33Ezk 16:59-60Psa 89:30-32Amo 3:2Lev 26:25Ezk 34:17 I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who disobey me. I will bring them out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.” Amo 9:9-10Ezk 13:9Psa 95:11Ezk 6:7Jer 44:14Mal 3:3Mal 4:1-3Zec 13:8-9
“‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord GOD says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols. Ezk 20:25-26Ezk 43:7Hos 4:17Isa 1:13-15Jdg 10:142Ki 3:132Th 2:11Amo 4:4-5 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,” says the Lord GOD, “there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things. Isa 56:7Isa 60:7Mal 3:41Pe 2:5Ezk 17:23Ezk 43:27Isa 66:23Ezk 37:22-28 I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations. Ezk 28:25Ezk 11:17Ezk 38:23Ezk 28:22Ezk 36:23-24Ezk 39:27-29Isa 27:12-13Isa 5:16 You will know that I am the LORD when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your fathers. Ezk 34:13Ezk 38:23Ezk 36:23-241Jn 5:20Ezk 11:17-20Ezk 20:38Ezk 20:44Ezk 24:24 There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed. Ezk 6:9Hos 5:15Ezk 36:31Jer 31:182Co 7:11Ezk 16:61-63Job 42:6Lev 26:39-41 You will know that I am the LORD, when I have dealt with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel,” says the Lord GOD.’” Ezk 24:24Ezk 20:14Ezk 20:22Ezk 20:9Psa 115:11Ti 1:16Eph 1:6Ezk 36:21-22
The LORD’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, set your face toward the south, and preach toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the south. Amo 7:16Ezk 21:2Jer 13:19Deu 32:2Ezk 4:7Ezk 6:2Isa 30:6Jer 22:7 Tell the forest of the south, ‘Hear the LORD’s word: The Lord GOD says, “Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree. The burning flame will not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it. Jer 21:14Ezk 17:24Isa 24:1-6Isa 9:18-19Luk 23:31Deu 32:22Ezk 15:6-7Ezk 19:14 All flesh will see that I, the LORD, have kindled it. It will not be quenched.”’” 2Ch 7:20-22Deu 29:24-28Isa 26:11Jer 40:2-3Jer 7:20Lam 2:16-17
Then I said, “Ah Lord GOD! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’” Jhn 16:25Act 17:18Ezk 17:2Mat 13:13-14