Ezekiel 20

1In the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:2 · 1Ki 22:15 · 2Ki 3:13 · Isa 29:13 · Isa 58:2 · Jer 37:17 · +17 more

2Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

3“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will not be inquired of by you.”’Cross-references: 1Sam 28:6 · Ps 50:15 · Prov 15:8 · Prov 21:27 · Prov 28:9 · Isa 1:12 · +9 more

4“Will you judge them, son of man? Will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers.Cross-references: Isa 5:3 · Jer 7:16 · Jer 11:14 · Jer 14:11 · Jer 15:1 · Ezek 14:14 · +10 more

5Tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, ‘I am Yahweh your God;’Cross-references: Gen 14:22 · Ex 3:6 · Ex 3:8 · Ex 3:16 · Ex 4:31 · Ex 6:2 · +21 more

6in that day I swore to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.Cross-references: Gen 15:13 · Ex 3:8 · Ex 3:17 · Ex 13:5 · Ex 14:1 · Ex 33:3 · +25 more

7I said to them, ‘Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes. Don’t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’Cross-references: Ex 16:12 · Ex 20:2 · Ex 20:4 · Lev 11:44 · Lev 17:7 · Lev 18:3 · +15 more

8“‘“But they rebelled against me and wouldn’t listen to me. They didn’t all throw away the abominations of their eyes. They also didn’t forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt.Cross-references: Ex 32:4 · Deut 9:7 · Neh 9:26 · Isa 63:10 · Ezek 5:13 · Ezek 7:8 · +3 more

9But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.Cross-references: Ex 32:12 · Num 14:13 · Deut 9:28 · Deut 32:26 · Josh 2:10 · Josh 7:9 · +7 more

10So I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.Cross-references: Ex 13:17 · Ex 14:17 · Ex 15:22 · Ex 20:2

11I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.Cross-references: Lev 18:5 · Deut 4:8 · Deut 20:15 · Neh 9:13 · Ps 147:19 · Ezek 20:13 · +5 more

12Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.Cross-references: Gen 2:3 · Ex 16:29 · Ex 19:5 · Ex 20:8 · Ex 31:13 · Ex 35:2 · +18 more

13“‘“But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.Cross-references: Ex 16:27 · Ex 32:8 · Ex 32:10 · Lev 26:15 · Lev 26:43 · Num 14:11 · +26 more

14But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.Cross-references: Ezek 20:9 · Ezek 20:22 · Ezek 36:22 · Eph 1:6 · Eph 1:12

15Moreover also I 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,Cross-references: Num 14:23 · Num 26:64 · Deut 1:34 · Ps 95:11 · Ps 106:26 · Ezek 20:23 · +3 more

16because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.Cross-references: Ex 32:1 · Num 15:39 · Num 25:2 · Ezek 14:3 · Ezek 20:8 · Ezek 20:13 · +3 more

17Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.Cross-references: 1Sam 24:10 · Neh 9:19 · Ps 78:37 · Jer 4:27 · Jer 5:18 · Ezek 7:2 · +4 more

18I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.Cross-references: Num 14:32 · Num 32:13 · Deut 4:3 · Ps 78:6 · Jer 2:7 · Jer 3:9 · +5 more

19I am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them.Cross-references: Ex 20:2 · Deut 4:1 · Deut 5:1 · Deut 5:6 · Deut 5:32 · Deut 7:4 · +13 more

20Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’Cross-references: Ex 20:11 · Ex 31:13 · Neh 13:15 · Isa 58:13 · Jer 17:22 · Jer 17:24 · +3 more

21“‘“But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.Cross-references: Num 21:5 · Num 25:1 · Deut 9:23 · Deut 31:27 · 2Chr 34:21 · 2Chr 34:25 · +11 more

22Nevertheless I withdrew my hand and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.Cross-references: Job 13:21 · Ps 25:11 · Ps 78:38 · Ps 79:9 · Ps 115:1 · Isa 48:9 · +8 more

23Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Deut 28:64 · Deut 32:26 · Deut 32:40 · Ps 106:27 · Jer 15:4 · +2 more

24because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.Cross-references: Deut 4:19 · Job 31:26 · Ezek 6:9 · Ezek 18:6 · Ezek 18:12 · Ezek 18:15 · +3 more

25Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they couldn’t live.Cross-references: Deut 4:27 · Deut 28:36 · Ps 81:12 · Isa 66:4 · Ezek 14:9 · Ezek 20:26 · +3 more

26I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.”’Cross-references: Ex 13:12 · Lev 18:21 · 2Ki 17:17 · 2Ki 21:6 · 2Chr 28:3 · 2Chr 33:6 · +8 more

27“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Moreover, in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.Cross-references: Ezek 2:7 · Ezek 3:4 · Ezek 3:11 · Ezek 3:27 · Ezek 18:24 · Rom 2:24 · +1 more

28For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There they also made their pleasant aroma, and there they poured out their drink offerings.Cross-references: Gen 15:18 · Gen 26:3 · Josh 23:3 · Josh 23:14 · Neh 9:22 · Ps 78:55 · +8 more

29Then I said to them, ‘What does the high place where you go mean?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.”’Cross-references: Ezek 16:24 · Ezek 16:31

30“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Do you pollute yourselves in the way of your fathers? Do you play the prostitute after their abominations?Cross-references: Num 32:14 · Judg 2:19 · Jer 7:26 · Jer 9:14 · Jer 16:12 · Matt 23:32 · +1 more

31When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? Should I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you!Cross-references: Deut 18:10 · 1Sam 28:5 · 2Ki 3:13 · Job 27:8 · Job 27:10 · Ps 66:18 · +14 more

32“‘“That which comes into your mind will not be at all, in that you say, ‘We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.’Cross-references: Deut 4:28 · Deut 28:36 · Deut 28:64 · Deut 29:17 · 1Sam 8:5 · Ps 139:2 · +10 more

33As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, I will be king over you.Cross-references: Jer 21:5 · Jer 42:18 · Jer 44:6 · Lam 2:4 · Ezek 8:18 · Dan 9:11

34I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.Cross-references: Isa 27:9 · Jer 44:6 · Lam 2:4 · Ezek 20:38 · Ezek 34:16 · Amos 9:9

35I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.Cross-references: Jer 2:9 · Jer 2:35 · Jer 25:31 · Ezek 17:20 · Ezek 19:13 · Ezek 20:36 · +8 more

36Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 32:7 · Num 11:1 · Num 14:1 · Num 16:1 · Num 25:1 · Ps 106:15 · +3 more

37“I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.Cross-references: Lev 26:25 · Lev 27:32 · Ps 89:30 · Jer 33:13 · Ezek 16:59 · Ezek 34:17 · +2 more

38I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who disobey me. I will bring them out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”Cross-references: Num 14:28 · Ps 9:16 · Ps 95:11 · Jer 44:14 · Ezek 6:7 · Ezek 11:21 · +16 more

39“‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.Cross-references: Judg 10:14 · 2Ki 3:13 · Ps 81:12 · Prov 21:27 · Isa 1:13 · Isa 66:3 · +12 more

40For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.Cross-references: Ps 2:6 · Ps 68:15 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 56:7 · Isa 60:7 · Isa 66:20 · +16 more

41I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.Cross-references: Gen 8:21 · Lev 1:9 · Lev 1:13 · Lev 1:17 · Lev 10:3 · Isa 5:16 · +24 more

42You will know that I am Yahweh when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your fathers.Cross-references: Jer 24:7 · Jer 31:34 · Ezek 11:17 · Ezek 20:38 · Ezek 20:44 · Ezek 24:24 · +8 more

43There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.Cross-references: Lev 26:39 · Neh 1:8 · Job 42:6 · Jer 31:18 · Ezek 6:9 · Ezek 16:61 · +5 more

44You will know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”Cross-references: Ps 79:9 · Ps 115:1 · Ezek 20:9 · Ezek 20:14 · Ezek 20:22 · Ezek 20:38 · +4 more

45Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

46“Son of man, set your face toward the south, and preach toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the south.Cross-references: Deut 32:2 · Job 29:22 · Isa 30:6 · Jer 13:19 · Jer 22:7 · Ezek 4:7 · +5 more

47Tell the forest of the south, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word: The Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree. The burning flame will not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it.Cross-references: Deut 32:22 · Isa 9:18 · Isa 13:8 · Isa 24:1 · Isa 30:33 · Isa 66:24 · +8 more

48All flesh will see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it. It will not be quenched.”’”Cross-references: Deut 29:24 · 2Chr 7:20 · Isa 26:11 · Jer 7:20 · Jer 40:2 · Lam 2:16

49Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’”Cross-references: Ezek 17:2 · Matt 13:13 · John 16:25 · Acts 17:18