Ezekiel 14

1Then some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me.Cross-references: 2Ki 6:32 · Isa 29:13 · Ezek 8:1 · Ezek 20:1 · Ezek 33:31 · Luke 10:39 · +3 more

2Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,Cross-references: 1Ki 14:4 · Amos 3:7

3“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?Cross-references: 1Sam 28:6 · 2Ki 3:13 · Ps 66:18 · Ps 101:3 · Prov 15:8 · Prov 15:29 · +27 more

4Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face then comes to the prophet, I Yahweh will answer him there according to the multitude of his idols,Cross-references: 1Ki 21:20 · 2Ki 1:16 · Isa 3:11 · Isa 66:4 · Ezek 2:7 · Ezek 3:4 · +2 more

5that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”’Cross-references: Deut 32:15 · Isa 1:4 · Jer 2:5 · Jer 2:11 · Jer 2:31 · Ezek 14:9 · +12 more

6“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations.Cross-references: 1Sam 7:3 · 1Ki 8:47 · 2Chr 29:6 · Neh 1:8 · Isa 2:20 · Isa 30:22 · +21 more

7“‘“For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me, I Yahweh will answer him by myself.Cross-references: Ex 12:48 · Ex 20:10 · Lev 16:29 · Lev 20:2 · Lev 24:22 · Num 15:15 · +13 more

8I will set my face against that man and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.Cross-references: Lev 17:10 · Lev 20:3 · Lev 22:3 · Lev 26:17 · Num 19:20 · Num 26:10 · +15 more

9“‘“If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.Cross-references: 2Sam 12:11 · 1Ki 22:20 · Job 12:16 · Ps 81:11 · Isa 5:25 · Isa 9:12 · +10 more

10They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him,Cross-references: Gen 4:13 · Num 5:31 · Deut 13:1 · Deut 17:2 · Jer 6:14 · Jer 8:11 · +8 more

11that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Deut 13:11 · Deut 19:20 · Ps 119:67 · Isa 9:16 · Jer 11:4 · +18 more

12Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

13“Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal—Cross-references: Gen 6:7 · Lev 26:26 · Ezra 9:6 · Isa 3:1 · Isa 24:20 · Jer 7:20 · +17 more

14though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 6:8 · Gen 7:1 · Gen 8:20 · Job 1:1 · Job 1:5 · Job 42:8 · +15 more

15“If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals—Cross-references: Lev 26:22 · 1Ki 20:36 · 2Ki 17:25 · Jer 15:3 · Ezek 5:17

16though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.Cross-references: Gen 18:23 · Gen 19:29 · Num 14:28 · Job 22:20 · Ezek 14:14 · Ezek 14:18 · +7 more

17“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off from it man and animal’—Cross-references: Lev 26:25 · Jer 25:9 · Jer 33:12 · Jer 47:6 · Ezek 5:12 · Ezek 5:17 · +8 more

18though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only would be delivered themselves.

19“Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal—Cross-references: Num 14:12 · Num 16:46 · Deut 28:21 · Deut 28:59 · 2Sam 24:13 · 2Sam 24:15 · +18 more

20though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”Cross-references: Job 5:19 · Ps 33:18 · Isa 3:10 · Ezek 14:14 · Ezek 14:16 · Ezek 18:20 · +7 more

21For the Lord Yahweh says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence—to cut off from it man and animal!Cross-references: Jer 15:2 · Ezek 5:12 · Ezek 5:17 · Ezek 6:11 · Ezek 14:13 · Ezek 14:15 · +5 more

22Yet, behold, there will be left a remnant in it that will be carried out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they will come out to you, and you will see their way and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it.Cross-references: Deut 4:31 · 2Chr 36:20 · Isa 6:13 · Isa 10:20 · Isa 17:4 · Isa 24:13 · +17 more

23They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; then you will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause,” says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 18:22 · Deut 8:2 · Neh 9:33 · Prov 26:2 · Jer 7:17 · Jer 22:8 · +7 more