Bible Cross References
I send
Ezekiel 3:4-8
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Then God said, "Mortal man, go to the people of Israel and say to them whatever I tell you to say.
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I am not sending you to a nation that speaks a difficult foreign language, but to the Israelites.
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If I sent you to great nations that spoke difficult languages you didn't understand, they would listen to you.
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But none of the people of Israel will be willing to listen; they will not even listen to me. All of them are stubborn and defiant.
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Now I will make you as stubborn and as tough as they are.
2 Chronicles 36:15
The LORD, the God of their ancestors, had continued to send prophets to warn his people, because he wanted to spare them and the Temple.
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they made fun of God's messengers, ignoring his words and laughing at his prophets, until at last the LORD's anger against his people was so great that there was no escape.
Isaiah 6:8-10
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Then I heard the Lord say, "Whom shall I send? Who will be our messenger?" I answered, "I will go! Send me!"
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So he told me to go and give the people this message: "No matter how much you listen, you will not understand. No matter how much you look, you will not know what is happening."
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Then he said to me, "Make the minds of these people dull, their ears deaf, and their eyes blind, so that they cannot see or hear or understand. If they did, they might turn to me and be healed."
Jeremiah 1:7
But the LORD said to me, "Do not say that you are too young, but go to the people I send you to, and tell them everything I command you to say.
Jeremiah 7:2
Jeremiah 25:3-7
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"For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was king of Judah until this very day, the LORD has spoken to me, and I have never failed to tell you what he said. But you have paid no attention.
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You would not listen or pay attention, even though the LORD has continued to send you his servants the prophets.
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They told you to turn from your wicked way of life and from the evil things you are doing, so that you could go on living in the land that the LORD gave you and your ancestors as a permanent possession.
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They told you not to worship and serve other gods and not to make the LORD angry by worshiping the idols you had made. If you had obeyed the LORD, then he would not have punished you.
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But the LORD himself says that you refused to listen to him. Instead, you made him angry with your idols and have brought his punishment on yourselves.
Jeremiah 26:2-6
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the LORD said to me, "Stand in the court of the Temple and proclaim all I have commanded you to say to the people who come from the towns of Judah to worship there. Do not leave out anything.
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Perhaps the people will listen and give up their evil ways. If they do, then I will change my mind about the destruction I plan to bring on them for all their wicked deeds."
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The LORD told me to say to the people, "I, the LORD, have said that you must obey me by following the teaching that I gave you,
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and by paying attention to the words of my servants, the prophets, whom I have kept on sending to you. You have never obeyed what they said.
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If you continue to disobey, then I will do to this Temple what I did to Shiloh, and all the nations of the world will use the name of this city as a curse."
Jeremiah 36:2
"Get a scroll and write on it everything that I have told you about Israel and Judah and all the nations. Write everything that I have told you from the time I first spoke to you, when Josiah was king, up to the present.
Mark 12:2-5
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When the time came to gather the grapes, he sent a slave to the tenants to receive from them his share of the harvest.
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The tenants grabbed the slave, beat him, and sent him back without a thing.
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Then the owner sent another slave; the tenants beat him over the head and treated him shamefully.
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The owner sent another slave, and they killed him; and they treated many others the same way, beating some and killing others.
Luke 24:47
and in his name the message about repentance and the forgiveness of sins must be preached to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
Luke 24:48
You are witnesses of these things.
John 20:21
Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father sent me, so I send you."
John 20:22
Then he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
Romans 10:15
And how can the message be proclaimed if the messengers are not sent out? As the scripture says, "How wonderful is the coming of messengers who bring good news!"
a rebellious nation
Ezekiel 16:1-63
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The LORD spoke to me again.
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"Mortal man," he said, "point out to Jerusalem what disgusting things she has done.
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Tell Jerusalem what the Sovereign LORD is saying to her: "You were born in the land of Canaan. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite.
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When you were born, no one cut your umbilical cord or washed you or rubbed you with salt or wrapped you in cloths.
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No one took enough pity on you to do any of these things for you. When you were born, no one loved you. You were thrown out in an open field.
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"Then I passed by and saw you squirming in your own blood. You were covered with blood, but I wouldn't let you die.
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I made you grow like a healthy plant. You grew strong and tall and became a young woman. Your breasts were well-formed, and your hair had grown, but you were naked.
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"As I passed by again, I saw that the time had come for you to fall in love. I covered your naked body with my coat and promised to love you. Yes, I made a marriage covenant with you, and you became mine." This is what the Sovereign LORD says.
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"Then I took water and washed the blood off you. I rubbed olive oil on your skin.
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I dressed you in embroidered gowns and gave you shoes of the best leather, a linen headband, and a silk cloak.
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I put jewels on you---bracelets and necklaces.
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I gave you a nose ring and earrings and a beautiful crown to wear.
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You had ornaments of gold and silver, and you always wore clothes of embroidered linen and silk. You ate bread made from the best flour, and had honey and olive oil to eat. Your beauty was dazzling, and you became a queen.
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You became famous in every nation for your perfect beauty, because I was the one who made you so lovely." This is what the Sovereign LORD says.
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"But you took advantage of your beauty and fame to sleep with everyone who came along.
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You used some of your clothes to decorate your places of worship, and just like a prostitute, you gave yourself to everyone.
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You took the silver and gold jewelry that I had given you, used it to make male images, and committed adultery with them.
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You took the embroidered clothes I gave you and put them on the images, and you offered to the images the olive oil and incense I had given you.
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I gave you food---the best flour, olive oil, and honey---but you offered it as a sacrifice to win the favor of idols." This is what the Sovereign LORD says.
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"Then you took the sons and the daughters you had borne me and offered them as sacrifices to idols. Wasn't it bad enough to be unfaithful to me,
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without taking my children and sacrificing them to idols?
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During your disgusting life as a prostitute you never once remembered your childhood---when you were naked, squirming in your own blood."
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The Sovereign LORD said, "You are doomed! Doomed! You did all that evil, and then
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by the side of every road you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution.
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You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day.
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You let your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, go to bed with you, and you used your prostitution to make me angry.
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"Now I have raised my hand to punish you and to take away your share of my blessing. I have handed you over to the Philistines, who hate you and are disgusted with your immoral actions.
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"Because you were not satisfied by the others, you went running after the Assyrians. You were their prostitute, but they didn't satisfy you either.
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You were also a prostitute for the Babylonians, that nation of merchants, but they didn't satisfy you either."
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This is what the Sovereign LORD is saying: "You have done all this like a shameless prostitute.
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On every street you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution. But you are not out for money like a common prostitute.
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You are like a woman who commits adultery with strangers instead of loving her husband.
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A prostitute is paid, but you gave presents to all your lovers and bribed them to come from everywhere to sleep with you.
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You are a special kind of prostitute. No one forced you to become one. You didn't get paid; you paid them! Yes, you are different."
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Now then, Jerusalem, you whore! Hear what the LORD is saying.
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This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "You stripped off your clothes, and like a prostitute, you gave yourself to your lovers and to all your disgusting idols, and you killed your children as sacrifices to idols.
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Because of this I will bring all your former lovers together---the ones you liked and the ones you hated. I will bring them around you in a circle, and then I will strip off your clothes and let them see you naked.
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I will condemn you for adultery and murder, and in my anger and fury I will punish you with death.
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I will put you in their power, and they will tear down the places where you engage in prostitution and worship idols. They will take away your clothes and jewels and leave you completely naked.
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"They will stir up a crowd to stone you, and they will cut you to pieces with their swords.
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They will burn your houses down and let crowds of women see your punishment. I will make you stop being a prostitute and make you stop giving gifts to your lovers.
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Then my anger will be over, and I will be calm. I will not be angry or jealous any more.
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You have forgotten how I treated you when you were young, and you have made me angry by all the things you did. That is why I have made you pay for them all. Why did you add sexual immorality to all the other disgusting things you did?" The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
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The LORD said, "People will use this proverb about you, Jerusalem: 'Like mother, like daughter.'
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You really are your mother's daughter. She detested her husband and her children. You are like your sisters, who hated their husbands and their children. You and your sister cities had a Hittite mother and an Amorite father.
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"Your older sister, with her villages, is Samaria, in the north. Your younger sister, with her villages, is Sodom, in the south.
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Were you satisfied to follow in their footsteps and copy their disgusting actions? No, in only a little while you were acting worse than they were in everything you did.
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"As surely as I am the living God," the Sovereign LORD says, "your sister Sodom and her villages never did the evil that you and your villages have done.
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She and her daughters were proud because they had plenty to eat and lived in peace and quiet, but they did not take care of the poor and the underprivileged.
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They were proud and stubborn and did the things that I hate, so I destroyed them, as you well know.
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"Samaria did not sin half as much as you have. You have acted more disgustingly than she ever did. Your corruption makes your sisters look innocent by comparison.
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And now you will have to endure your disgrace. Your sins are so much worse than those of your sisters that they look innocent beside you. Now blush and bear your shame, because you make your sisters look pure."
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The LORD said to Jerusalem, "I will make them prosperous again---Sodom and her villages and Samaria and her villages. Yes, I will make you prosperous too.
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You will be ashamed of yourself, and your disgrace will show your sisters how well-off they are.
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They will become prosperous again, and you and your villages will also be restored.
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Didn't you joke about Sodom in those days when you were proud
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and before the evil you did had been exposed? Now you are just like her---a joke to the Edomites, the Philistines, and your other neighbors who hate you.
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You must suffer for the obscene, disgusting things you have done." The LORD has spoken.
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The Sovereign LORD says, "I will treat you the way you deserve, because you ignored your promises and broke the covenant.
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But I will honor the covenant I made with you when you were young, and I will make a covenant with you that will last forever.
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You will remember how you have acted, and be ashamed of it when you get your older sister and your younger sister back. I will let them be like daughters to you, even though this was not part of my covenant with you.
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I will renew my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
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I will forgive all the wrongs you have done, but you will remember them and be too ashamed to open your mouth." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
Ezekiel 20:1-49
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It was the tenth day of the fifth month of the seventh year of our exile. Some of the leaders of the Israelite community came to consult me about the LORD's will, and they sat down in front of me.
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Then the LORD spoke to me.
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"Mortal man," he said, "speak to these leaders and tell them that the Sovereign LORD is saying: You have come to ask my will, have you? As surely as I am the living God, I will not let you ask me anything. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken.
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"Are you ready to pass sentence on them, mortal man? Then do so. Remind them of the disgusting things their ancestors did.
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Tell them what I am saying. When I chose Israel, I made them a promise. I revealed myself to them in Egypt and told them: I am the LORD your God.
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It was then that I promised to take them out of Egypt and lead them to a land I had chosen for them, a rich and fertile land, the finest land of all.
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I told them to throw away the disgusting idols they loved and not to make themselves unclean with the false gods of Egypt, because I am the LORD their God.
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But they defied me and refused to listen. They did not throw away their disgusting idols or give up the Egyptian gods. I was ready to let them feel the full force of my anger there in Egypt.
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But I did not, since that would have brought dishonor to my name, for in the presence of the people among whom they were living I had announced to Israel that I was going to lead them out of Egypt.
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"And so I led them out of Egypt into the desert.
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I gave them my commands and taught them my laws, which bring life to anyone who obeys them.
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I made the keeping of the Sabbath a sign of the agreement between us, to remind them that I, the LORD, make them holy.
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But even in the desert they defied me. They broke my laws and rejected my commands, which bring life to anyone who obeys them. They completely profaned the Sabbath. I was ready to let them feel the force of my anger there in the desert and to destroy them.
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But I did not, since that would have brought dishonor to my name among the nations which had seen me lead Israel out of Egypt.
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So I made a vow in the desert that I would not take them to the land I had given them, a rich and fertile land, the finest land of all.
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I made the vow because they had rejected my commands, broken my laws, and profaned the Sabbath---they preferred to worship their idols.
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"But then I took pity on them. I decided not to kill them there in the desert.
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Instead, I warned the young people among them: Do not keep the laws your ancestors made; do not follow their customs or defile yourselves with their idols.
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I am the LORD your God. Obey my laws and my commands.
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Make the Sabbath a holy day, so that it will be a sign of the covenant we made, and will remind you that I am the LORD your God.
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"But that generation also defied me. They broke my laws and did not keep my commands, which bring life to anyone who obeys them. They profaned the Sabbath. I was ready to let them feel the force of my anger there in the desert and to kill them all.
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But I did not, since that would have brought dishonor to my name among the nations which had seen me bring Israel out of Egypt.
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So I made another vow in the desert. I vowed that I would scatter them all over the world.
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I did this because they had rejected my commands, broken my laws, profaned the Sabbath, and worshiped the same idols their ancestors had served.
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"Then I gave them laws that are not good and commands that do not bring life.
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I let them defile themselves with their own offerings, and I let them sacrifice their first-born sons. This was to punish them and show them that I am the LORD.
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"Now then, mortal man, tell the Israelites what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to them. This is another way their ancestors insulted me by their unfaithfulness.
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I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.
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I asked them: What are these high places where you go? So they have been called 'High Places' ever since.
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Now tell the Israelites what I am saying: Why must you commit the same sins your ancestors did and go running after their idols?
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Even today you offer the same gifts and defile yourselves with the same idols by sacrificing your children to them in the fire. And then you Israelites still come to ask what my will is! As surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God, I will not let you ask me anything.
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You have made up your minds that you want to be like the other nations, like the people who live in other countries and worship trees and rocks. But that will never be.
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"As surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God, I warn you that in my anger I will rule over you with a strong hand, with all my power.
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I will show you my power and my anger when I gather you together and bring you back from all the countries where you have been scattered.
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I will bring you into the 'Desert of the Nations,' and there I will condemn you to your face.
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I will now condemn you just as I condemned your ancestors in the Sinai Desert," says the Sovereign LORD.
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"I will take firm control of you and make you obey my covenant.
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I will take away from among you those who are rebellious and sinful. I will take them out of the lands where they are living now, but I will not let them return to the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD."
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The Sovereign LORD says, "And now, all you Israelites, suit yourselves! Go on and serve your idols! But I warn you that after this you will have to obey me and stop dishonoring my holy name by offering gifts to your idols.
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There in the land, on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, all you people of Israel will worship me. I will be pleased with you and will expect you to bring me your sacrifices, your best offerings, and your holy gifts.
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After I bring you out of the countries where you have been scattered and gather you together, I will accept the sacrifices that you burn, and the nations will see that I am holy.
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When I bring you back to Israel, the land that I promised I would give to your ancestors, then you will know that I am the LORD.
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Then you will remember all the disgraceful things you did and how you defiled yourselves. You will be disgusted with yourselves because of all the evil things you did.
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When I act to protect my honor, you Israelites will know that I am the LORD, because I do not deal with you as your wicked, evil actions deserve." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
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"Mortal man," he said, "look toward the south. Speak against the south and prophesy against the forest of the south.
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Tell the southern forest to hear what the Sovereign LORD is saying: Look! I am starting a fire, and it will burn up every tree in you, whether green or dry. Nothing will be able to put it out. It will spread from south to north, and everyone will feel the heat of the flames.
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They will all see that I, the LORD, set it on fire and that no one can put it out."
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But I protested, "Sovereign LORD, don't make me do it! Everyone is already complaining that I always speak in riddles."
Ezekiel 23:1-49
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"Mortal man," he said, "there were once two sisters.
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When they were young, living in Egypt, they lost their virginity and became prostitutes.
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The older one was named Oholah (she represents Samaria), and the younger one was named Oholibah (she represents Jerusalem). I married both of them, and they bore me children.
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Although she was mine, Oholah continued to be a prostitute and was full of lust for her lovers from Assyria.
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They were soldiers in uniforms of purple, noblemen and high-ranking officers; all of them were handsome young cavalry officers.
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She was the whore for all the Assyrian officers, and her lust led her to defile herself by worshiping Assyrian idols.
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She continued what she had begun as a prostitute in Egypt, where she lost her virginity. From the time she was a young woman, men slept with her and treated her like a prostitute.
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So I handed her over to her Assyrian lovers whom she wanted so much.
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They stripped her naked, seized her sons and daughters, and then killed her with a sword. Women everywhere gossiped about her fate.
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"Even though her sister Oholibah saw this, she was wilder and more of a prostitute than Oholah had ever been.
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She too was full of lust for the Assyrian noblemen and officers---soldiers in bright uniforms---and for the cavalry officers, all of those handsome young men.
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I saw that she was completely immoral, that the second sister was as bad as the first.
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"She sank deeper and deeper in her immorality. She was attracted by the images of high Babylonian officials carved into the wall and painted bright red, with sashes around their waists and fancy turbans on their heads.
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As soon as she saw them, she was filled with lust and sent messengers to them in Babylonia.
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The Babylonians came to have sex with her. They used her and defiled her so much that finally she became disgusted with them.
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She exposed herself publicly and let everyone know she was a whore. I was as disgusted with her as I had been with her sister.
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She became more of a prostitute than ever, acting the way she did as a young woman, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
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She was filled with lust for oversexed men who had all the lustfulness of donkeys or stallions."
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(Oholibah, you wanted to repeat the immorality you were guilty of as a young woman in Egypt, where men played with your breasts and you lost your virginity.)
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"Now then, Oholibah, this is what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to you. You are tired of those lovers, but I will make them angry with you and bring them to surround you.
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I will bring all the Babylonians and Chaldeans, men from Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians. I will gather all those handsome young noblemen and officers, all those important officials and high-ranking cavalry officers.
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They will attack you from the north, bringing a large army with chariots and supply wagons. Protected by shields and helmets, they will surround you. I will hand you over to them, and they will judge you by their own laws.
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Because I am angry with you, I will let them deal with you in their anger. They will cut off your nose and your ears and kill your children. Yes, they will take your sons and daughters from you and burn them alive.
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They will tear off your clothes and take your jewels.
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I will put a stop to your lust and to the obscenities you have committed ever since you were in Egypt. You won't look at any more idols or think about Egypt any more."
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This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "I will hand you over to people you hate and are disgusted with.
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And because they hate you, they will take away everything you have worked for and leave you stripped naked, exposed like a prostitute. Your lust and your prostitution
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have brought this on you. You were a prostitute for the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
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You followed in your sister's footsteps, and so I will give you the same cup of punishment to drink."
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The Sovereign LORD says, "You will drink from your sister's cup; it is large and deep. Everyone will scorn and mock you; the cup is full.
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It will make you miserable and drunk, that cup of fear and ruin, your sister Samaria's cup.
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You will drink and drain it dry, and with its broken pieces tear your breast. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken."
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Now this is what the Sovereign LORD is saying: "Because you forgot me and turned your back on me, you will suffer for your lust and your prostitution."
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The LORD said to me, "Mortal man, are you ready to judge Oholah and Oholibah? Accuse them of the disgusting things they have done.
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They have committed adultery and murder---adultery with idols and murder of the children they bore me. They sacrificed my children to their idols.
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And that is not all they did. They profaned my Temple and broke the Sabbath, which I had established.
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The very day that they killed my children as sacrifices to idols, they came to my Temple and profaned it!
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"Again and again they sent messengers to invite men to come from a great distance, and the men came. The two sisters would bathe and put on eye shadow and jewelry.
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They would sit on a beautiful couch, and in front of them they would have a table covered with good things, including the incense and the olive oil that I had given them.
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The sound of a carefree crowd could be heard, a group of men brought in from the desert. They put bracelets on the women's arms and beautiful crowns on their heads.
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And I said to myself that they were using as a prostitute a woman worn out by adultery.
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They went back to these prostitutes again and again. They went back to Oholah and Oholibah, those immoral women.
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Righteous men will condemn them on the charge of adultery and murder, because they practice adultery and their hands are stained with blood."
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This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "Bring a mob to terrorize them and rob them.
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Let the mob stone them and attack them with swords, kill their children, and burn down their houses.
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Throughout the land I will put a stop to immorality, as a warning to every woman not to commit adultery as they did.
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And you two sisters---I will punish you for your immorality and your sin of worshiping idols. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD."
rebelled
Ezekiel 20:18-30
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Instead, I warned the young people among them: Do not keep the laws your ancestors made; do not follow their customs or defile yourselves with their idols.
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I am the LORD your God. Obey my laws and my commands.
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Make the Sabbath a holy day, so that it will be a sign of the covenant we made, and will remind you that I am the LORD your God.
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"But that generation also defied me. They broke my laws and did not keep my commands, which bring life to anyone who obeys them. They profaned the Sabbath. I was ready to let them feel the force of my anger there in the desert and to kill them all.
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But I did not, since that would have brought dishonor to my name among the nations which had seen me bring Israel out of Egypt.
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So I made another vow in the desert. I vowed that I would scatter them all over the world.
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I did this because they had rejected my commands, broken my laws, profaned the Sabbath, and worshiped the same idols their ancestors had served.
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"Then I gave them laws that are not good and commands that do not bring life.
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I let them defile themselves with their own offerings, and I let them sacrifice their first-born sons. This was to punish them and show them that I am the LORD.
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"Now then, mortal man, tell the Israelites what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to them. This is another way their ancestors insulted me by their unfaithfulness.
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I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.
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I asked them: What are these high places where you go? So they have been called 'High Places' ever since.
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Now tell the Israelites what I am saying: Why must you commit the same sins your ancestors did and go running after their idols?
Numbers 20:10
He and Aaron assembled the whole community in front of the rock, and Moses said, "Listen, you rebels! Do we have to get water out of this rock for you?"
Numbers 32:13
The LORD became angry with the people and made them wander in the wilderness forty years until that whole generation that had displeased him was dead.
Numbers 32:14
And now you have taken your ancestors' place, a new generation of sinful people ready to bring down the fierce anger of the LORD on Israel again.
Deuteronomy 9:24
Ever since I have known you, you have rebelled against the LORD.
Deuteronomy 9:27
Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and do not pay any attention to the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of this people.
1 Samuel 8:7
and the LORD said, "Listen to everything the people say to you. You are not the one they have rejected; I am the one they have rejected as their king.
1 Samuel 8:8
Ever since I brought them out of Egypt, they have turned away from me and worshiped other gods; and now they are doing to you what they have always done to me.
2 Kings 17:17-20
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They sacrificed their sons and daughters as burnt offerings to pagan gods; they consulted mediums and fortunetellers, and they devoted themselves completely to doing what is wrong in the LORD's sight, and so aroused his anger.
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The LORD was angry with the Israelites and banished them from his sight, leaving only the kingdom of Judah.
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But even the people of Judah did not obey the laws of the LORD their God; they imitated the customs adopted by the people of Israel.
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The LORD rejected all the Israelites, punishing them and handing them over to cruel enemies until at last he had banished them from his sight.
Ezra 9:7
From the days of our ancestors until now, we, your people, have sinned greatly. Because of our sins we, our kings, and our priests have fallen into the hands of foreign kings, and we have been slaughtered, robbed, and carried away as prisoners. We have been totally disgraced, as we still are today.
Nehemiah 9:16-18
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But our ancestors grew proud and stubborn and refused to obey your commands.
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They refused to obey; they forgot all you did; they forgot the miracles you had performed. In their pride they chose a leader to take them back to slavery in Egypt. But you are a God who forgives; you are gracious and loving, slow to be angry. Your mercy is great; you did not forsake them.
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They made an idol in the shape of a bull-calf and said it was the god who led them from Egypt! How much they insulted you, LORD!
Nehemiah 9:26-18
Nehemiah 9:33-35
33
You have done right to punish us; you have been faithful, even though we have sinned.
34
Our ancestors, our kings, leaders, and priests have not kept your Law. They did not listen to your commands and warnings.
35
With your blessing, kings ruled your people when they lived in the broad, fertile land you gave them; but they failed to turn from sin and serve you.
Psalm 106:16-21
16
There in the desert they were jealous of Moses and of Aaron, the LORD's holy servant.
17
Then the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan and buried Abiram and his family;
18
fire came down on their followers and burned up those wicked people.
19
They made a gold bull-calf at Sinai and worshiped that idol;
20
they exchanged the glory of God for the image of an animal that eats grass.
21
They forgot the God who had saved them by his mighty acts in Egypt.
Psalm 106:28-21
Psalm 106:32-40
32
At the springs of Meribah the people made the LORD angry, and Moses was in trouble on their account.
33
They made him so bitter that he spoke without stopping to think.
34
They did not kill the heathen, as the LORD had commanded them to do,
35
but they intermarried with them and adopted their pagan ways.
36
God's people worshiped idols, and this caused their destruction.
37
They offered their own sons and daughters as sacrifices to the idols of Canaan.
38
They killed those innocent children, and the land was defiled by those murders.
39
They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.
40
So the LORD was angry with his people; he was disgusted with them.
Jeremiah 3:25
We should lie down in shame and let our disgrace cover us. We and our ancestors have always sinned against the LORD our God; we have never obeyed his commands."
Jeremiah 16:11
Then tell them that the LORD has said, 'Your ancestors turned away from me and worshiped and served other gods. They abandoned me and did not obey my teachings.
Jeremiah 16:12
But you have done even worse than your ancestors. All of you are stubborn and evil, and you do not obey me.
Jeremiah 44:21
"As for the sacrifices which you and your ancestors, your kings and your leaders, and the people of the land offered in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem---do you think that the LORD did not know about them or that he forgot them?
Daniel 9:5-13
5
"We have sinned, we have been evil, we have done wrong. We have rejected what you commanded us to do and have turned away from what you showed us was right.
6
We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our rulers, our ancestors, and our whole nation.
7
You, Lord, always do what is right, but we have always brought disgrace on ourselves. This is true of all of us who live in Judea and in Jerusalem and of all the Israelites whom you scattered in countries near and far because they were unfaithful to you.
8
Our kings, our rulers, and our ancestors have acted shamefully and sinned against you, Lord.
9
You are merciful and forgiving, although we have rebelled against you.
10
We did not listen to you, O LORD our God, when you told us to live according to the laws which you gave us through your servants the prophets.
11
All Israel broke your laws and refused to listen to what you said. We sinned against you, and so you brought on us the curses that are written in the Law of Moses, your servant.
12
You did what you said you would do to us and our rulers. You punished Jerusalem more severely than any other city on earth,
13
giving us all the punishment described in the Law of Moses. But even now, O LORD our God, we have not tried to please you by turning from our sins or by following your truth.
Acts 7:51
"How stubborn you are!" Stephen went on to say. "How heathen your hearts, how deaf you are to God's message! You are just like your ancestors: you too have always resisted the Holy Spirit!