Ezekiel 20 (New American Standard)

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God's Dealings with Israel Rehearsed

1 Now in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, ^acertain of the ¹elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me. 2 And the word of the LORD came to me saying, 3 "Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord ^bGOD, "Do you come to inquire of Me? As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "²I will not be inquired of by you."' 4 "Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man ? ³Make them know the abominations of their fathers ; 5 and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "On the day when I ⁴chose Israel and ^cswore to the ^ddescendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I ^eswore to them, saying, ⁵I am the LORD your God, 6 on that day I swore to them, ⁶to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had ^fselected for them, ⁷flowing with milk and honey, which is ⁸the glory of all lands. 7 "I said to them, '⁹Cast away, each of you, the detestable things of his eyes, and ¹⁰do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt ; ¹¹I am the LORD your God.' 8 "But they ¹²rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; ^gthey did not cast away the detestable things of their eyes, nor did they forsake the ¹³idols of Egypt. Then I ^hresolved to ¹⁴pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 9 "But I acted ¹⁵for the sake of My name, that it should ¹⁶not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt. 10 "So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the ¹⁷wilderness. 11 "I gave them My ¹⁸statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by ¹⁹which, if a man ⁱobserves them, he will live. 12 "Also I gave them My sabbaths to be a ²⁰sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them. 13 "But the house of Israel ²¹rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes and they rejected My ordinances, ²²by which, if a man ^jobserves them, he will live ; and My ²³sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I ^kresolved to ²⁴pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them. 14 "But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, before whose sight I had brought them out. 15 "Also ²⁵I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands, 16 because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they even profaned My sabbaths, for their ²⁶heart continually went after their idols. 17 "Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not cause their ²⁷annihilation in the wilderness. 18 "I said to their ^l²⁸children in the wilderness, '²⁹Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. 19 '³⁰I am the LORD your God ; ³¹walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and ^mobserve them. 20 '³²Sanctify My sabbaths ; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.' 21 "But the ³³children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to observe My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live ; they profaned My sabbaths. So I ⁿresolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the wilderness. 22 "But I ³⁴withdrew My hand and acted ³⁵for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. 23 "Also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would ³⁶scatter them among the nations and disperse them among the lands, 24 because they had not observed My ordinances, but had rejected My statutes and had profaned My sabbaths, and ³⁷their eyes were ^oon the idols of their fathers. 25 "I also gave them statutes that were ³⁸not good and ordinances by which they could not live ; 26 and I pronounced them ³⁹unclean because of their gifts, in that they ⁴⁰caused all ^ptheir firstborn to pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might ⁴¹know that I am the LORD."' 27 "Therefore, son of man, ⁴²speak to the house of Israel and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Yet in this your fathers have ⁴³blasphemed Me by ⁴⁴acting treacherously against Me. 28 "When I had ⁴⁵brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every ⁴⁶high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered there their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There also they made their soothing aroma and there they poured out their drink offerings. 29 "Then I said to them, 'What is the high place to which you go ?' So its name is called ^qBamah to this day."' 30 "Therefore, say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Will you defile yourselves ^rafter the manner of your ⁴⁷fathers and play the harlot after their detestable things ? 31 "^sWhen you offer your gifts, when you ⁴⁸cause your sons to pass through the fire, you are defiling yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel ? As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will not be inquired of by you. 32 "What ⁴⁹comes ^tinto your mind will not come about, when you say : 'We will be like the nations, like the tribes of the lands, ⁵⁰serving wood and stone.'

God Will Restore Israel to Her Land

33 "As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "surely with a mighty hand and with an ⁵¹outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I shall be ⁵²king over you. 34 "I will ⁵³bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with ⁵⁴wrath poured out; 35 and I will bring you into the ⁵⁵wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face. 36 "As I ⁵⁶entered into judgment with your fathers in the ⁵⁷wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you," declares the Lord GOD. 37 "I will make you ⁵⁸pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant ; 38 and I will ⁵⁹purge from you the rebels and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they will ⁶⁰not enter the ^uland of Israel. Thus you will know that I am the LORD. 39 "As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord GOD, "⁶¹Go, serve everyone his idols ; ^vbut later you will surely listen to Me, and My holy name you will ⁶²profane no longer with your gifts and with your idols. 40 "For on My holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel," declares the Lord GOD, "there the whole house of Israel, ⁶³all of them, will serve Me in the land ; there I will ⁶⁴accept them and there I will ^wseek your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your holy things. 41 "^xAs a soothing aroma I will accept you when I ⁶⁵bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered ; and I will prove Myself ⁶⁶holy among you in the sight of the nations. 42 "And ⁶⁷you will know that I am the LORD, ⁶⁸when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the ⁶⁹land which I swore to give to your forefathers. 43 "There you will ⁷⁰remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves; and you will ⁷¹loathe yourselves in your own ^ysight for all the evil things that you have done. 44 "Then ⁷²you will know that I am the LORD when I have dealt with you ⁷³for My name's sake, not according to your evil ways or according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel," declares the Lord GOD.' " 45 ^zNow the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 46 "Son of man, set your face toward ^aaTeman, and speak out against the ⁷⁴south and ⁷⁵prophesy against the ⁷⁶forest ^bbland of the Negev, 47 and say to the forest of the Negev, 'Hear the word of the LORD : thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am about to ⁷⁷kindle a fire in you, and it will consume every ^ccgreen tree in you, as well as every dry tree ; the blazing flame will not be quenched and ^dd⁷⁸the whole surface from south to north will be burned by it. 48 "All flesh will see that I, the LORD, have kindled it; it shall ⁷⁹not be quenched.""' 49 Then I said, "Ah Lord GOD ! They are saying of me, 'Is he not just speaking ⁸⁰parables ?' "

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a. Ezekiel 20:1 - Lit "men"

b. Ezekiel 20:3 - Heb "YHWH," usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the ch

c. Ezekiel 20:5 - Lit "lifted up My hand," and so throughout the ch

d. Ezekiel 20:5 - Lit "seed"

e. Ezekiel 20:5 - Lit "lifted up My hand," and so throughout the ch

f. Ezekiel 20:6 - Lit "spied out"

g. Ezekiel 20:8 - Lit "each one"

h. Ezekiel 20:8 - Lit "said"

i. Ezekiel 20:11 - Lit "does"

j. Ezekiel 20:13 - Lit "does"

k. Ezekiel 20:13 - Lit "said"

l. Ezekiel 20:18 - Lit "sons"

m. Ezekiel 20:19 - Lit "do"

n. Ezekiel 20:21 - Lit "said"

o. Ezekiel 20:24 - Lit "after"

p. Ezekiel 20:26 - Lit "that which opens the womb"

q. Ezekiel 20:29 - Or "High Place"

r. Ezekiel 20:30 - Lit "in the way of"

s. Ezekiel 20:31 - Lit "In your lifting up"

t. Ezekiel 20:32 - Lit "upon your spirit"

u. Ezekiel 20:38 - Lit "ground" or "soil"

v. Ezekiel 20:39 - Or "and afterwards, if you will not listen to Me, but"

w. Ezekiel 20:40 - Or "require"

x. Ezekiel 20:41 - Lit "With"

y. Ezekiel 20:43 - Lit "faces"

z. Ezekiel 20:45 - Ch 21:1 in Heb

aa. Ezekiel 20:46 - Or "the South"

bb. Ezekiel 20:46 - Lit "of the field"

cc. Ezekiel 20:47 - Lit "moist"

dd. Ezekiel 20:47 - Or "all the faces"

1. Ezekiel 20:1 - Ezek 8:1, 11, 12

2. Ezekiel 20:3 - Ezek 14:3

3. Ezekiel 20:4 - Ezek 16:2; 22:2; Matt 23:32

4. Ezekiel 20:5 - Ex 6:6-8

5. Ezekiel 20:5 - Ex 6:2, 3

6. Ezekiel 20:6 - Jer 32:22

7. Ezekiel 20:6 - Ex 13:5; 33:3

8. Ezekiel 20:6 - Ps 48:2

9. Ezekiel 20:7 - Ex 20:4, 5; 22:20

10. Ezekiel 20:7 - Lev 18:3; Deut 29:16-18

11. Ezekiel 20:7 - Ex 20:2

12. Ezekiel 20:8 - Deut 9:7; Is 63:10

13. Ezekiel 20:8 - Ex 32:1-9

14. Ezekiel 20:8 - Ezek 5:13; 7:8; 20:13, 21

15. Ezekiel 20:9 - Ex 32:11-14; Ezek 20:14, 22; 36:21, 22

16. Ezekiel 20:9 - Ezek 39:7

17. Ezekiel 20:10 - Ex 19:1

18. Ezekiel 20:11 - Ex 20:1-23:33

19. Ezekiel 20:11 - Lev 18:5; Ezek 20:13

20. Ezekiel 20:12 - Ex 31:13, 17; Ezek 20:20

21. Ezekiel 20:13 - Num 14:11, 12, 22; Ezek 20:8

22. Ezekiel 20:13 - Lev 18:5

23. Ezekiel 20:13 - Is 56:6; Ezek 20:21

24. Ezekiel 20:13 - Ex 32:10; Deut 9:8; Ezek 20:8, 21

25. Ezekiel 20:15 - Num 14:30; Ps 95:11; 106:26

26. Ezekiel 20:16 - Ezek 11:21; 14:3-7; 20:8

27. Ezekiel 20:17 - Jer 4:27; 5:18; Ezek 11:13

28. Ezekiel 20:18 - Num 14:31; Deut 4:3-6

29. Ezekiel 20:18 - Zech 1:4

30. Ezekiel 20:19 - Ex 6:7; 20:2

31. Ezekiel 20:19 - Deut 5:32, 33; 6:1, 2; 8:1, 2; 11:1; 12:1

32. Ezekiel 20:20 - Jer 17:22

33. Ezekiel 20:21 - Num 21:5; 25:1-3

34. Ezekiel 20:22 - Job 13:21; Ps 78:38; Ezek 20:17

35. Ezekiel 20:22 - Is 48:9-11; Jer 14:7, 21; Ezek 20:9, 14

36. Ezekiel 20:23 - Lev 26:33; Deut 4:27; 28:64

37. Ezekiel 20:24 - Ezek 6:9

38. Ezekiel 20:25 - Ps 81:12; Is 66:4; Rom 1:21-25, 28

39. Ezekiel 20:26 - Lev 18:21; 20:2-5; Is 63:17; Ezek 20:30; Rom 11:8

40. Ezekiel 20:26 - Jer 7:31; 19:4-9

41. Ezekiel 20:26 - Ezek 6:7; 20:12, 20

42. Ezekiel 20:27 - Ezek 2:7; 3:4, 11, 27

43. Ezekiel 20:27 - Num 15:30; Rom 2:24

44. Ezekiel 20:27 - Ezek 18:24; 39:23, 26

45. Ezekiel 20:28 - Josh 23:3, 14; Neh 9:22-26; Ps 78:55; Jer 2:7

46. Ezekiel 20:28 - 1 Kin 14:23; Ps 78:58; Is 57:5-7; Jer 3:6; Ezek 6:13

47. Ezekiel 20:30 - Judg 2:19; Jer 7:26; 16:12

48. Ezekiel 20:31 - Ps 106:37-39; Jer 7:31; Ezek 16:20; 20:26

49. Ezekiel 20:32 - Ezek 11:5

50. Ezekiel 20:32 - Jer 2:25; 44:17

51. Ezekiel 20:33 - Jer 21:5

52. Ezekiel 20:33 - Jer 51:57

53. Ezekiel 20:34 - Is 27:12, 13; Ezek 20:38; 34:16

54. Ezekiel 20:34 - Jer 42:18; 44:6; Lam 2:4

55. Ezekiel 20:35 - Ezek 19:13; 20:36; Hos 2:14

56. Ezekiel 20:36 - Num 11:1-35; Ps 106:15; Ezek 20:13, 21; 1 Cor 10:5-10

57. Ezekiel 20:36 - Deut 32:10

58. Ezekiel 20:37 - Lev 27:32; Jer 33:13

59. Ezekiel 20:38 - Ezek 34:17-22; Amos 9:9, 10; Zech 13:8, 9; Mal 3:3; 4:1-3

60. Ezekiel 20:38 - Num 14:29, 30; Ps 95:11; Ezek 13:9; 20:15, 16; Heb 4:3

61. Ezekiel 20:39 - Jer 44:25, 26

62. Ezekiel 20:39 - Is 1:13-15; Ezek 23:38, 39; 43:7

63. Ezekiel 20:40 - Is 66:23; Ezek 37:22, 24

64. Ezekiel 20:40 - Is 56:7; 60:7; Ezek 43:12, 27

65. Ezekiel 20:41 - Is 27:12, 13; Ezek 11:17; 28:25

66. Ezekiel 20:41 - Is 5:16; Ezek 28:25; 36:23

67. Ezekiel 20:42 - Ezek 36:23; 38:23

68. Ezekiel 20:42 - Ezek 11:17; 34:13; 36:24

69. Ezekiel 20:42 - Ezek 20:6, 15

70. Ezekiel 20:43 - Ezek 6:9; 16:61, 63; Hos 5:15

71. Ezekiel 20:43 - Jer 31:18; Ezek 36:31; Zech 12:10

72. Ezekiel 20:44 - Ezek 24:24

73. Ezekiel 20:44 - Ezek 36:22

74. Ezekiel 20:46 - Jer 13:19; Ezek 21:4

75. Ezekiel 20:46 - Ezek 21:2; Amos 7:16

76. Ezekiel 20:46 - Is 30:6-11

77. Ezekiel 20:47 - Is 9:18, 19; Jer 21:14

78. Ezekiel 20:47 - Is 13:8

79. Ezekiel 20:48 - Jer 7:20; 17:27

80. Ezekiel 20:49 - Ezek 17:2; Matt 13:13; John 16:25

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