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Ezekiel
Ezekiel ministered
during the seventy-year period of Babylonian captivity. Though Israel and
Judah were like dry bones God would breathe life into them again.
Chapter 1
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1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year,
in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was
among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens
were opened, and I saw visions of God.
2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of
king Jehoiachin's captivity,
3 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest,
the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river
Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the
north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a
brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the
colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four
living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the
likeness of a man.
6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their
feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled
like the colour of burnished brass.
8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their
four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when
they went; they went every one straight forward.
10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face
of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they
four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also
had the face of an eagle.
11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched
upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and
two covered their bodies.
12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the
spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they
went.
13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their
appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the
appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living
creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went
forth lightning.
14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance
of a flash of lightning.
15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon
the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto
the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and
their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the
middle of a wheel.
17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they
turned not when they went.
18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were
dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them
four.
19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by
them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the
earth, the wheels were lifted up.
20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was
their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against
them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these
stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the
wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the
living creature was in the wheels.
22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the
living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal,
stretched forth over their heads above.
23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one
toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this
side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their
bodies.
24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like
the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the
voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood,
they let down their wings.
25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over
their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.
26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the
likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone:
and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the
appearance of a man above upon it.
27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire
round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even
upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I
saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness
round about.
28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the
day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round
about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of
the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard
a voice of one that spake. |
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Where was Ezekiel when he wrote this book? (1-3)
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What came out of the whirlwind? (4-5)
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What four faces did each one have? (6, 10)
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What was in the wheels? (16, 20-21)
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What was the appearance of the one on the throne? (26, 28)
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What did Ezekiel do when he saw the appearance of the one on the throne?
(28)
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Chapter 2
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2:1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand
upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.
2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and
set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children
of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against
me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even
unto this very day.
4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send
thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD.
5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will
forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know
that there hath been a prophet among them.
6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be
afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee,
and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their
words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a
rebellious house.
7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will
hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most
rebellious.
8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou
rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat
that I give thee.
9 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and,
lo, a roll of a book was therein;
10 And he spread it before me; and it was written within and
without: and there was written therein lamentations, and
mourning, and woe. |
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How did God describe Israel to Ezekiel? (3-4)
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What would Israel know? (5)
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Of what was Ezekiel not to be afraid? (6)
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What was Ezekiel to do? (7)
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What was sent to Ezekiel? (9-10)
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Chapter 3
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3:1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man,
eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the
house of Israel.
2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and
fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I
eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house
of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of
an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard
language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I
sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they
will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are
impudent and hardhearted.
8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and
thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead:
fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they
be a rebellious house.
10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I
shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with
thine ears.
11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the
children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether
they will forbear.
12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice
of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD
from his place.
13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures
that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over
against them, and a noise of a great rushing.
14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in
bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD
was strong upon me.
15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that
dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and
remained there astonished among them seven days.
16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word
of the LORD came unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of
Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them
warning from me.
18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou
givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from
his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall
die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine
hand.
19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his
wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his
iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his
righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock
before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him
warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which
he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I
require at thine hand.
21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the
righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live,
because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said
unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk
with thee.
23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold,
the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by
the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet,
and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within
thine house.
25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon
thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out
among them:
26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth,
that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover:
for they are a rebellious house.
27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou
shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth,
let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for
they are a rebellious house. |
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What was Ezekiel to do with the roll of a book? (1-3)
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To what people was Ezekiel to speak? (4-7,11)
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What did the LORD make Ezekiel to be? (17)
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When would the blood be on Ezekiel’s hands? (18,20)
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Chapter 4
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4:1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile,
and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even
Jerusalem:
2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and
cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set
battering rams against it round about.
3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a
wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face
against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege
against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of
the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the
days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their
iniquity.
5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity,
according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety
days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right
side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah
forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of
Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt
prophesy against it.
8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not
turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the
days of thy siege.
9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and
lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel,
and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the
days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and
ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight,
twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of
an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake
it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel
eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will
drive them.
14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been
polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten
of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither
came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for
man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break
the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by
weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure,
and with astonishment:
17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one
with another, and consume away for their iniquity. |
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For how many days was Ezekiel to lie on his left side and what did these
days represent? (4-5)
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For how many days was Ezekiel to lie on his right side and what did
these days represent? (6)
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Chapter 5
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5:1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp
knife, take thee a barber's rasor, and cause it to pass upon
thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to
weight, and divide the hair.
2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the
city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt
take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a
third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out
a sword after them.
3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them
in thy skirts.
4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the
fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come
forth into all the house of Israel.
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in
the midst of the nations and countries that are round about
her.
6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than
the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are
round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my
statutes, they have not walked in them.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied
more than the nations that are round about you, and have not
walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither
have done according to the judgments of the nations that are
round about you;
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am
against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee
in the sight of the nations.
9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and
whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all
thine abominations.
10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of
thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute
judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I
scatter into all the winds.
11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because
thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things,
and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also
diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I
have any pity.
12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and
with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a
third part shall fall by the sword round about thee and I will
scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a
sword after them.
13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my
fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they
shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I
have accomplished my fury in them.
14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the
nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that
pass by.
15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and
an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee,
when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury
and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine,
which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to
destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will
break your staff of bread:
17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they
shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass
through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD
have spoken it. |
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What was Ezekiel to do with each of the three parts of his hair? (1-2)
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What judgments was God going to send on the three parts of Jerusalem?
(12)
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Chapter 6
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6:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and
prophesy against them,
3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the
hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I,
will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high
places.
4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be
broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel
before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about
your altars.
6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste,
and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be
laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and
cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be
abolished.
7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall
know that I am the LORD.
8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall
escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered
through the countries.
9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the
nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am
broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me,
and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and
they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have
committed in all their abominations.
10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not
said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
11 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp
with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of
the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence.
12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that
is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is
besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my
fury upon them.
13 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men
shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon
every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under
every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where
they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land
desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward
Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I
am the LORD. |
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Against whom did Ezekiel pronounce judgment in this chapter? (1-7)
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What would the remnant that escaped do? (8-9)
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What would they know? (10,13,14)
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Chapter 7
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7:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land
of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of
the land.
3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger
upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will
recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity:
but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine
abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know
that I am the LORD.
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is
come.
6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee;
behold, it is come.
7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the
land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not
the sounding again of the mountains.
8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and
accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee
according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine
abominations.
9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I
will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine
abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know
that I am the LORD that smiteth.
10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone
forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them
shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs:
neither shall there be wailing for them.
12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer
rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the
multitude thereof.
13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold,
although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the
whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall
any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but
none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the
multitude thereof.
15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine
within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and
he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour
him.
16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on
the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning,
every one for his iniquity.
17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as
water.
18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror
shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and
baldness upon all their heads.
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold
shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be
able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they
shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels:
because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty:
but they made the images of their abominations and of their
detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from
them.
21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a
prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they
shall pollute it.
22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute
my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and
defile it.
23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and
the city is full of violence.
24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they
shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the
strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there
shall be none.
26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon
rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the
law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the
ancients.
27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be
troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according
to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I
am the LORD. |
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What was near? (7)
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What would not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the
LORD? (19)
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Chapter 8
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8:1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in
the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in
mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the
hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire:
from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from
his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the
colour of amber.
3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock
of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth
and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to
Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward
the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which
provoketh to jealousy.
4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there,
according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the
way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward
the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this
image of jealousy in the entry.
6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what
they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel
committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary?
but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater
abominations.
7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I
looked, behold a hole in the wall.
8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and
when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked
abominations that they do here.
10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping
things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house
of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of
the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah
the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and
a thick cloud of incense went up.
12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the
ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in
the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us
not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt
see greater abominations that they do.
14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's
house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women
weeping for Tammuz.
15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man?
turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations
than these.
16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house,
and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between
the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with
their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces
toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is
it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the
abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the
land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger:
and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not
spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine
ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. |
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Where did the spirit lift Ezekiel? (3)
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What did Ezekiel see in the visions? (6, 9,13,15)
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What were twenty-five men in the temple worshipping? (16)
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Chapter 9
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9:1 He cried also in mine ears with a loud
voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to
draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his
hand.
2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate,
which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon
in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen,
with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and
stood beside the brasen altar.
3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the
cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And
he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the
writer's inkhorn by his side;
4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the
city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the
foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the
abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him
through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither
have ye pity:
6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children,
and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark;
and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men
which were before the house.
7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts
with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in
the city.
8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was
left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord
GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy
pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
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.
10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will
I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the
inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done
as thou hast commanded me. |
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What happened to those on whom there was no mark? (5-7)
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Chapter 10
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10:1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the
firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there
appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the
appearance of the likeness of a throne.
2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go
in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine
hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and
scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when
the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and
stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was
filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the
brightness of the LORD's glory.
5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the
outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
6 And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man
clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels,
from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside
the wheels.
7 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the
cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and
took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was
clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.
8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand
under their wings.
9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims,
one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub:
and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl
stone.
10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness,
as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they
turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head
looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.
12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and
their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about,
even the wheels that they four had.
13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O
wheel.
14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face
of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and
the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an
eagle.
15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living
creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and
when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the
earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.
17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up,
these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living
creature was in them.
18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold
of the house, and stood over the cherubims.
19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up
from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels
also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the
east gate of the LORD's house; and the glory of the God of
Israel was over them above.
20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of
Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the
cherubims.
21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings;
and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
22 And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I
saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves:
they went every one straight forward. |
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With what was the man clothed in linen to fill his hands? (2, 6-7)
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What were the four faces like on the wheels? (14)
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Chapter 11
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11:1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and
brought me unto the east gate of the LORD's house, which
looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and
twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and
Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the princes of the people.
2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that
devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is
the caldron, and we be the flesh.
4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me,
Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of
Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every
one of them.
6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have
filled the streets thereof with the slain.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have
laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is
the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of
it.
8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you,
saith the Lord GOD.
9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver
you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments
among you.
10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border
of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be
the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the
border of Israel:
12 And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not
walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have
done after the manners of the heathen that are round about
you.
13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the
son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried
with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a
full end of the remnant of Israel?
14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy
kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto
whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from
the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.
16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have
cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have
scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a
little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather
you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries
where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of
Israel.
18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all
the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof
from thence.
19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit
within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their
flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine
ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I
will be their God.
21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of
their detestable things and their abominations, I will
recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
22 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels
beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them
above.
23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the
city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of
the city.
24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a
vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the
captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that
the LORD had shewed me. |
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What happened to Pelatiah the son of Benaiah when Ezekiel prophesied?
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What would God be to those whom He scattered among the countries? (16)
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What will God give to those He gathers and assembles out of the
countries? (17-20)
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Chapter 12
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12:1 The word of the LORD also came unto me,
saying,
2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious
house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to
hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing,
and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from
thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will
consider, though they be a rebellious house.
4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight,
as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in
their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.
5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out
thereby.
6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and
carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face,
that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign
unto the house of Israel.
7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by
day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through
the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight,
and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight.
8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me,
saying,
9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious
house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden
concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of
Israel that are among them.
11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be
done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.
12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his
shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig
through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his
face, that he see not the ground with his eyes.
13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken
in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of
the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die
there.
14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him
to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword
after them.
15 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall
scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the
countries.
16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the
famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all
their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and
they shall know that I am the LORD.
17 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water
with trembling and with carefulness;
19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord
GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of
Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink
their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate
from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them
that dwell therein.
20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and
the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the
LORD.
21 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
22 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land
of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision
faileth?
23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make
this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a
proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand,
and the effect of every vision.
24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering
divination within the house of Israel.
25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall
speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for
in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and
will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.
26 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The
vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he
prophesieth of the times that are far off.
28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There
shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word
which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD. |
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Where did Ezekiel dwell according to the LORD? (1-2)
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In what manner was Ezekiel a sign to the house of Israel? (3-13)
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What shall come to pass and be no more prolonged? (25-28)
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Chapter 13
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13:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that
prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their
own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that
follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge
for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of
the LORD.
6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD
saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made
others to hope that they would confirm the word.
7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a
lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I
have not spoken?
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken
vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,
saith the Lord GOD.
9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity,
and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my
people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the
house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of
Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying,
Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and,
lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:
11 Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it
shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O
great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you,
Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with
a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing
shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to
consume it.
14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with
untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that
the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall,
and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall
know that I am the LORD.
15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon
them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say
unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;
16 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning
Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there
is no peace, saith the Lord GOD.
17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the
daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own
heart; and prophesy thou against them,
18 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew
pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of
every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my
people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of
barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should
not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by
your lying to my people that hear your lies?
20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against
your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them
fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the
souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out
of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be
hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous
sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of
the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by
promising him life:
23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine
divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand:
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To whom did Ezekiel prophesy in this chapter? (1-3)
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What did they say to the people? (10, 16)
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Chapter 14
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14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel
unto me, and sat before me.
2 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their
heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before
their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his
idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his
iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the
LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of
his idols;
5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart,
because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn
away your faces from all your abominations.
7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger
that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me,
and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the
stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to
a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will
answer him by myself:
8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a
sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of
my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing,
I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out
my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my
people Israel.
10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the
punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of
him that seeketh unto him;
11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,
neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions;
but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith
the Lord GOD.
12 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing
grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and
will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send
famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it,
they should deliver but their own souls by their
righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and
they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass
through because of the beasts:
16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the
Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they
only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go
through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the
Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but
they only shall be delivered themselves.
19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my
fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith
the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter;
they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my
four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine,
and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it
man and beast?
22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be
brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall
come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their
doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I
have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have
brought upon it.
23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and
their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without
cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD. |
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What did the Lord tell the house of Israel
to do? (6)
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What three men, if they were in Israel
at that time, would only be able to deliver their own souls? (14, 16,
18, 20)
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What four sore judgments was the LORD going to send on Jerusalem? (21)
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Chapter 15
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15:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or
than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take
a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire
devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned.
Is it meet for any work?
5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much
less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath
devoured it, and it is burned?
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among
the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for
fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from
one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall
know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have
committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD. |
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What object lesson did the LORD give to Ezekiel to show what would
happen to the inhabitants of Jerusalem? (2-6)
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Chapter 16
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16:1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth
and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an
Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel
was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee;
thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have
compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open
field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast
born.
6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine
own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live;
yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and
thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to
excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair
is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy
time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee,
and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered
into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou
becamest mine.
9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away
thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with
badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I
covered thee with silk.
11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon
thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine
ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment
was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst
eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding
beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty:
for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon
thee, saith the Lord GOD.
15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the
harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy
fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high
places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon:
the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my
silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images
of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and
thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and
honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them
for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.
20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom
thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto
them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to
cause them to pass through the fire for them?
22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast
not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and
bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe
unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)
24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and
hast made thee an high place in every street.
25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way,
and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy
feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy
neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms,
to provoke me to anger.
27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee,
and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee
unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the
Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because
thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with
them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land
of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied
herewith.
30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou
doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish
woman;
31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of
every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and
hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh
strangers instead of her husband!
33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to
all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee
on every side for thy whoredom.
34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy
whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms:
and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto
thee, therefore thou art contrary.
35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured
out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with
thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by
the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom
thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved,
with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them
round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto
them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed
blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and
jealousy.
39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall
throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high
places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall
take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they
shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with
their swords.
41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute
judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will
cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also
shalt give no hire any more.
42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy
shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no
more angry.
43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but
hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also
will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD:
and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine
abominations.
44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this
proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her
daughter.
45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband
and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters,
which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother
was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters
that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that
dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after
their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing,
thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not
done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy
daughters.
49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride,
fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in
her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor
and needy.
50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me:
therefore I took them away as I saw good.
51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou
hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast
justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou
hast done.
52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own
shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable
than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou
confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast
justified thy sisters.
53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of
Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her
daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy
captives in the midst of them:
54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be
confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a
comfort unto them.
55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to
their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall
return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters
shall return to your former estate.
56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the
day of thy pride,
57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy
reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round
about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise
thee round about.
58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith
the LORD.
59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as
thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the
covenant.
60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the
days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an
everlasting covenant.
61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when
thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger:
and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy
covenant.
62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt
know that I am the LORD:
63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never
open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am
pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the
Lord GOD. |
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What did Jerusalem do? (15)
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To what did the LORD compare Jerusalem? (32)
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What proverb would be used against Jerusalem?
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Chapter 17
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17:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the
house of Israel;
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great
wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours,
came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it
into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a
fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a
willow tree.
6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature,
whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were
under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches,
and shot forth sprigs.
7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many
feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward
him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might
water it by the furrows of her plantation.
8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might
bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it
might be a goodly vine.
9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall
he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit
thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of
her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck
it up by the roots thereof.
10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not
utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall
wither in the furrows where it grew.
11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these
things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to
Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes
thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;
13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with
him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the
mighty of the land:
14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift
itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into
Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall
he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall
he break the covenant, and be delivered?
16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where
the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised,
and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of
Babylon he shall die.
17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great
company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and
building forts, to cut off many persons:
18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when,
lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he
shall not escape.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine
oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath
broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.
20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in
my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with
him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the
sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all
winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.
22 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest
branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off
from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant
it upon an high mountain and eminent:
23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it:
and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a
goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing;
in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD
have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree,
have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to
flourish: I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have
exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have
made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have
done it. |
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What did the first eagle represent in the parable? (1-6, 11-12)
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What did the second eagle represent? (7-10, 15-18)
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Chapter 18
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18:1 The word of the LORD came unto me again,
saying,
2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land
of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the
children's teeth are set on edge?
3 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion
any more to use this proverb in Israel.
4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so
also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it
shall die.
5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
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,
7 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor
his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his
bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a
garment;
8 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken
any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath
executed true judgment between man and man,
9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to
deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord
GOD.
10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and
that doeth the like to any one of these things,
11 And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten
upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by
violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his
eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall
he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these
abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon
him.
14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's
sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such
like,
15 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted
up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not
defiled his neighbour's wife,
16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge,
neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to
the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
17 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not
received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath
walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of
his father, he shall surely live.
18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled
his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among
his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
19 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the
father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right,
and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall
surely live.
20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear
the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the
iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall
be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon
him.
21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath
committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is
lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall
not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath
done he shall live.
23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?
saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his
ways, and live?
24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness,
and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the
abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his
righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his
trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath
sinned, in them shall he die.
25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O
house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways
unequal?
26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness,
and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity
that he hath done shall he die.
27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness
that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and
right, he shall save his soul alive.
28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his
transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live,
he shall not die.
29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not
equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your
ways unequal?
30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one
according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn
yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not
be your ruin.
31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have
transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for
why will ye die, O house of Israel?
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth,
saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. |
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What proverb were they no longer to use in Israel? (2-3)
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Who would die? (4, 13, 18, 20, 24)
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What should a person do regarding their transgressions? (30-31)
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Chapter 19
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19:1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for
the princes of Israel,
2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among
lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young
lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit,
and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost,
then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young
lion.
6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young
lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their
cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by
the noise of his roaring.
8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the
provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in
their pit.
9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the
king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice
should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the
waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of
many waters.
11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare
rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches,
and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her
branches.
12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the
ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods
were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and
thirsty ground.
14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath
devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a
sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a
lamentation. |
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For whom is this chapter a lamentation? (1, 14)
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To what is the mother of the princes of Israel
compared? (2, 10)
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Chapter 20
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20:1 And it came to pass in the seventh year,
in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain
of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat
before me.
2 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to inquire of me?
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by
you.
4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them?
cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
5 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when
I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the
house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of
Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the
LORD your God;
6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring
them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied
for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of
all lands:
7 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the
abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the
idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me:
they did not every man cast away the abominations of their
eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I
said, I will pour out my fury upon them to accomplish my anger
against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be
polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose
sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth
out of the land of Egypt.
10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of
Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments,
which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between
me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that
sanctify them.
13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the
wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised
my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them;
and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would
pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be
polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them
out.
15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto 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;
16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my
statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after
their idols.
17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them,
neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye
not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their
judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my
judgments, and do them;
20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me
and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they
walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do
them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they
polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury
upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the
wilderness.
22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my
name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of
the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness,
that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them
through the countries;
24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had
despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their
eyes were after their fathers' idols.
25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and
judgments whereby they should not live;
26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused
to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I
might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that
I am the LORD.
27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and
say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your
fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a
trespass against me.
28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I
lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every
high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there
their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of
their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and
poured out there their drink offerings.
29 Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye
go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and
commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to
pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your
idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you,
O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not
be inquired of by you.
32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all,
that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the
countries, to serve wood and stone.
33 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand,
and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I
rule over you:
34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather
you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a
mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury
poured out.
35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and
there will I plead with you face to face.
36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of
the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord
GOD.
37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will
bring you into the bond of the covenant:
38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them
that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the
country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the
land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go
ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye
will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more
with your gifts, and with your idols.
40 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of
Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of
Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept
them, and there will I require your offerings, and the
firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you
out from the people, and gather you out of the countries
wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in
you before the heathen.
42 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring
you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I
lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings,
wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in
your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
44 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought
with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked
ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of
Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
45 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy
word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the
south field;
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the
LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in
thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every
dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all
faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it
shall not be quenched.
49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak
parables? |
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For what purpose did the elders of Israel
come to Ezekiel? (1)
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How did the LORD respond? (3, 31)
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How would the LORD plead with Israel when He gathers them out of the
countries where they were scattered? (34-36)
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Chapter 21
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21:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word
toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of
Israel,
3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold,
I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his
sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the
wicked.
4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and
the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his
sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my
sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy
loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest
thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it
cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be
feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be
weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to
pass, saith the Lord GOD.
8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A
sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished
that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth
the rod of my son, as every tree.
11 And he hath give it to be furbished, that it may be
handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give
it into the hand of the slayer.
12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people,
it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason
of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy
thigh.
13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even
the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands
together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the
sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are
slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.
15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates,
that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah!
it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
16 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on
the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my
fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the
sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come
forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at
the head of the way to the city.
20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the
Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at
the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his
arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the
liver.
22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to
appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift
up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against
the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their
sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to
remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made
your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions
are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do
appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye
shall be taken with the hand.
25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is
come, when iniquity shall have an end,
26 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off
the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low,
and abase him that is high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no
more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach;
even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the
slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the
glittering:
29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie
unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are
slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity
shall have an end.
30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge
thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy
nativity.
31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow
against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into
the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in
the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I
the LORD have spoken it. |
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(6,12)
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