Ezekiel 11:14-25

The Promise of Israel’s Return

14 The word of the LORD came to me:
15 “Son of man, the people of Jerusalem have said of your fellow exiles and all the other Israelites, ‘They are far away from the LORD; this land was given to us as our possession.’
16 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.’
17 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will gather you from the nations and bring you back from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you back the land of Israel again.’
18 “They will return to it and remove all its vile images and detestable idols.
19 I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.
20 Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
21 But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their vile images and detestable idols, I will bring down on their own heads what they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
22 Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, spread their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.
23 The glory of the LORD went up from within the city and stopped above the mountain east of it.
24 The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the exiles in Babylonia[a] in the vision given by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me,
25 and I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.

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Cross References 20

  • 1. Ezekiel 33:24
  • 2. Psalms 31:20; Psalms 90:1; Psalms 91:9; S Isaiah 4:6; Isaiah 8:14
  • 3. S Nehemiah 1:9; S Jeremiah 3:18; Jeremiah 24:5-6; S Jeremiah 31:16; Ezekiel 20:41; Ezekiel 28:25; Ezekiel 34:13; Ezekiel 36:28
  • 4. S Ezekiel 5:11
  • 5. Ezekiel 37:23
  • 6. S 2 Chronicles 30:12; S Psalms 86:11; Jeremiah 32:39
  • 7. Zechariah 7:12; Romans 2:5
  • 8. Ezekiel 18:31; Ezekiel 36:26; S 2 Corinthians 3:3
  • 9. S Psalms 1:2; Psalms 105:45
  • 10. S Jeremiah 11:4; Jeremiah 32:38
  • 11. S Exodus 6:7; Ezekiel 14:11; Ezekiel 34:30; Ezekiel 36:26-28; Hosea 1:9; Zechariah 8:8; Hebrews 8:10
  • 12. Jeremiah 16:18
  • 13. Jeremiah 16:11; S Ezekiel 9:10; Ezekiel 16:43
  • 14. S Exodus 24:16
  • 15. Ezekiel 9:3; S Ezekiel 10:19
  • 16. Ezekiel 1:28; Ezekiel 8:4; S Ezekiel 10:4
  • 17. Zechariah 14:4
  • 18. Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 37:1; Ezekiel 43:5
  • 19. 2 Corinthians 12:2-4
  • 20. S Ezekiel 3:4,11

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