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Ezekiel 14:1-23 — Idolaters Condemned

Ezek.14.1-23

¹Then some men from the elders of Israel came to me and sat down before me to inquire of the LORD . ²And the word of the LORD came to me, saying: ³"Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I really let Myself be inquired of by them? ⁴Therefore speak to them and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: Anyone from the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and then comes to the prophet, I, the LORD, will answer him who comes, according to the multitude of his idols, ⁵in order to take hold of the house of Israel in their hearts, because they are all estranged from Me through their idols.' ⁶Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations. ⁷For anyone from the house of Israel, or from the foreigners who reside in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me for himself, I, the LORD, will answer him Myself. ⁸I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people. Then you will know that I am the LORD. ⁹And if the prophet is enticed and speaks a word, I, the LORD, have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from the midst of My people Israel. ¹⁰They will bear their iniquity; the iniquity of the inquirer will be just like the iniquity of the prophet, ¹¹so that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me, and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God, declares the Lord GOD.' ¹²And the word of the LORD came to me, saying: ¹³"Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it and break its staff of bread, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast, ¹⁴even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in its midst, they would deliver only their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord GOD. ¹⁵If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land and they bereave it of children, and it becomes a desolation so that no one passes through because of the beasts, ¹⁶even if these three men were in its midst, as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they could deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would become a desolation. ¹⁷Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, 'Let a sword pass through the land,' and I cut off from it man and beast, ¹⁸even if these three men were in its midst, as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they could deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered. ¹⁹Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast, ²⁰even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in its midst, as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they could deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own lives by their righteousness. ²¹For thus says the Lord GOD: How much more when I send My four severe judgments against Jerusalem—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—to cut off from it man and beast! ²²Yet behold, there will be left in it survivors who will be brought out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they are coming out to you, and you will see their conduct and their actions. Then you will be comforted concerning the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem—concerning all that I have brought upon it. ²³They will comfort you when you see their conduct and their actions , and you will know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, declares the Lord GOD."

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4/11/2026

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