Ezekiel 11

1Moreover the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh’s house, which looks eastward. Behold, twenty-five men were at the door of the gate; and I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:12 · 2Ki 2:16 · 2Ki 25:23 · Isa 1:10 · Isa 1:23 · Ezek 3:12 · +15 more

2He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;Cross-references: Esth 8:3 · Ps 2:1 · Ps 36:4 · Ps 52:2 · Isa 30:1 · Isa 59:4 · +3 more

3who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’Cross-references: Isa 5:19 · Jer 1:11 · Ezek 7:7 · Ezek 11:7 · Ezek 12:22 · Ezek 12:27 · +3 more

4Therefore prophesy against them. Prophesy, son of man.”Cross-references: Isa 58:1 · Ezek 3:2 · Ezek 3:17 · Ezek 20:46 · Ezek 21:2 · Ezek 25:2 · +2 more

5Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.Cross-references: Num 11:25 · 1Sam 10:6 · 1Sam 10:10 · 1Chr 28:9 · Ps 7:9 · Ps 50:21 · +25 more

6You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.”Cross-references: 2Ki 21:16 · Isa 1:15 · Jer 2:30 · Jer 2:34 · Jer 7:6 · Jer 7:9 · +14 more

7“‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Your slain whom you have laid in the middle of it, they are the meat, and this is the cauldron; but you will be brought out of the middle of it.Cross-references: 2Ki 25:18 · Jer 52:24 · Ezek 3:9 · Ezek 24:3 · Mic 3:2

8You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Job 3:25 · Job 20:24 · Prov 10:24 · Isa 24:17 · Isa 30:16 · Isa 66:4 · +6 more

9“I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.Cross-references: Deut 28:36 · Deut 28:49 · 2Ki 24:4 · Neh 9:36 · Ps 106:30 · Ps 106:41 · +13 more

10You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.Cross-references: Num 34:8 · Josh 13:5 · 1Ki 8:65 · 2Ki 14:25 · 2Ki 25:19 · Ps 9:16 · +9 more

11This will not be your cauldron, neither will you be the meat in the middle of it. I will judge you in the border of Israel.Cross-references: Ezek 11:3 · Ezek 11:7

12You will know that I am Yahweh, for you have not walked in my statutes. You have not executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”’”Cross-references: Lev 18:3 · Lev 18:24 · Lev 26:40 · Deut 12:30 · 1Ki 11:33 · 2Ki 16:3 · +25 more

13When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”Cross-references: Num 14:35 · Deut 7:4 · Deut 9:18 · Josh 7:6 · 1Ki 13:4 · 1Chr 21:16 · +13 more

14Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

15“Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are the ones to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from Yahweh. This land has been given to us for a possession.’Cross-references: Isa 65:5 · Isa 66:5 · Jer 24:1 · Ezek 33:24 · John 16:2

16“Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.”’Cross-references: Lev 26:44 · Deut 30:3 · 2Ki 24:12 · Ps 31:20 · Ps 44:11 · Ps 90:1 · +11 more

17“Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”Cross-references: Isa 11:11 · Jer 3:12 · Jer 3:18 · Jer 24:5 · Jer 30:10 · Jer 30:18 · +10 more

18“‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.Cross-references: Isa 1:25 · Isa 30:22 · Jer 16:18 · Ezek 5:11 · Ezek 7:20 · Ezek 11:21 · +6 more

19I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh,Cross-references: Deut 30:6 · 2Ki 22:19 · 2Chr 30:12 · Ps 51:10 · Isa 48:4 · Jer 24:7 · +19 more

20that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.Cross-references: Ps 105:45 · Ps 119:4 · Ps 119:32 · Jer 11:4 · Jer 24:7 · Jer 30:22 · +15 more

21But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”Cross-references: Eccl 11:9 · Jer 1:16 · Jer 2:20 · Jer 17:9 · Jer 29:16 · Ezek 9:10 · +10 more

22Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them. The glory of the God of Israel was over them above.Cross-references: Ezek 1:19 · Ezek 10:19

23Yahweh’s glory went up from the middle of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.Cross-references: Ezek 8:4 · Ezek 9:3 · Ezek 10:4 · Ezek 10:18 · Ezek 43:2 · Ezek 43:4 · +2 more

24The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the captives. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.Cross-references: Gen 17:22 · Gen 35:13 · 2Ki 2:16 · Ps 137:1 · Ezek 1:3 · Ezek 3:12 · +5 more

25Then I spoke to the captives all the things that Yahweh had shown me.Cross-references: Ezek 2:7 · Ezek 3:4 · Ezek 3:17 · Ezek 3:27