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Text -- Ezekiel 14:1-18 (NET)
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Well-Deserved Judgment
14:1 Then some men from Israel’s elders came to me and sat down in front of me.
14:2 The word of the Lord came to me:
14:3 “Son of man , these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity right before their faces . Should I really allow them to seek me?
14:4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says : When any one from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face , and then consults a prophet , I the Lord am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry .
14:5 I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel , who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols .’
14:6 “Therefore say to the house of Israel , ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says : Return ! Turn from your idols , and turn your faces away from your abominations .
14:7 For when anyone from the house of Israel , or the foreigner who lives in Israel , separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face , and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally.
14:8 I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword and will cut him off from among my people . Then you will know that I am the Lord .
14:9 “‘As for the prophet , if he is made a fool by being deceived into speaking a prophetic word – I , the Lord , have made a fool of that prophet , and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel .
14:10 They will bear their punishment ; the punishment of the one who sought an oracle will be the same as the punishment of the prophet who gave it
14:11 so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins . They will be my people and I will be their God , declares the sovereign Lord .’”
14:12 The word of the Lord came to me:
14:13 “Son of man , suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful , and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply , cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals .
14:14 Even if these three men , Noah , Daniel , and Job , were in it , they would save only their own lives by their righteousness , declares the sovereign Lord .
14:15 “Suppose I were to send wild animals through the land and kill its children , leaving it desolate , without travelers due to the wild animals .
14:16 Even if these three men were in it , as surely as I live , declares the sovereign Lord , they could not save their own sons or daughters ; they would save only their own lives, and the land would become desolate .
14:17 “Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say , ‘Let a sword pass through the land ,’ and I were to kill both people and animals .
14:18 Even if these three men were in it , as surely as I live , declares the sovereign Lord , they could not save their own sons or daughters – they would save only their own lives.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Idolatry |
RESURRECTION |
SALVATION |
Judgments |
Hypocrisy |
Animals |
Intercession |
Stumbling |
Job |
SYNAGOGUE |
Ezekiel |
BAAL |
Minister |
Repentance |
Afflictions and Adversities |
JOB, BOOK OF |
Daniel |
Bread |
Works |
Prophecy |
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NET Notes: Eze 14:3 Or “I will not reveal myself to them.” The Hebrew word is used in a technical sense here of seeking an oracle from a prophet (2 Kgs 1:16; ...
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NET Notes: Eze 14:9 The translation is uncertain due to difficulty both in determining the meaning of the verb’s stem and its conjugation in this context. In the Qa...
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