Ezekiel 33:23

23 The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 33:23 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 33:23

Then the word of the Lord came unto me
After the messenger had delivered his message, and he had received it, and conversed with him about it: saying:
as follows:

Ezekiel 33:23 In-Context

21 In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has been struck down. ”

22 Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

23 The word of the Lord came to me:

24 “Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess. ’

25 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: You eat flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?