Ezekiel 20 (NET)

Ezekiel 20:1¹In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to seek the Lord, and they sat down in front of me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 8:1Ezek 24:1Ezek 26:1Ezek 29:1Ezek 29:17Ezek 30:20Ezek 31:1Ezek 32:1Ezek 40:11 Kgs 14:2-6

Ezekiel 20:2²The Lord’ s message came to me:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Ezekiel 20:3³“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Are you coming to seek me? As surely as I live, I will not allow you to seek me, declares the Sovereign Lord.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 15:8-9Mic 3:7Prov 28:9Ps 50:15-211 Sam 28:6Ezek 14:3-4Ezek 14:7-8Ezek 20:31Isa 1:12Isa 1:15

Ezekiel 20:4⁴Are you willing to pronounce judgment on them? Are you willing to pronounce judgment, son of man? Then confront them with the abominable practices of their fathers,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 22:2Ezek 23:361 Cor 6:2Acts 7:51-52Ezek 14:14Ezek 14:20Ezek 16:2-3Ezek 23:45Isa 5:3Jer 11:14

Ezekiel 20:5⁵and say to them: “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose Israel I swore to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore to them, “I am the Lord your God.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 7:6Exod 3:8Exod 4:31Exod 6:6-7Ezek 20:15Ezek 20:23Ezek 47:14Gen 14:22Deut 11:2-7Deut 14:2

Ezekiel 20:6⁶On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land that I had picked out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:8Ezek 20:15Jer 32:22Dan 8:9Ps 48:2Zech 7:14Dan 11:16Dan 11:41Deut 11:11-12Deut 26:15

Ezekiel 20:7⁷I said to them, “Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 18:3Ezek 20:8Deut 29:16-18Ezek 18:31Lev 11:442 Chr 15:8Exod 16:12Exod 20:2Exod 20:4Ezek 14:6

Ezekiel 20:8⁸But they rebelled against me and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:21Ezek 20:7Ezek 5:13Ezek 7:8Isa 63:10Deut 9:7Exod 32:4-6Ezek 20:13Neh 9:26

Ezekiel 20:9⁹I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived, before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 39:7Ezek 20:22Exod 32:12Ezek 20:14Ezek 36:21-221 Sam 12:221 Sam 4:8Deut 32:26-27Deut 9:28Josh 9:9-10

Ezekiel 20:10¹⁰“‘So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them to the wilderness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 13:17-18Exod 14:17-22Exod 15:22Exod 20:2

Ezekiel 20:11¹¹I gave them my statutes and revealed my regulations to them. The one who carries them out will live by them!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 18:5Rom 10:5Deut 4:8Gal 3:12Luke 10:28Ezek 20:13Neh 9:13-14Ps 147:19-20Deut 20:15-16Ezek 20:21

Ezekiel 20:12¹²I also gave them my Sabbaths as a reminder of our relationship, so that they would know that I, the Lord, sanctify them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:20Ezek 37:281 Thess 5:23Lev 21:23Deut 5:12-15Exod 19:5-6Exod 20:8-11Exod 31:13-17Lev 23:3Mark 2:27-28

Ezekiel 20:13¹³But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations (the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:21Ezek 20:8Deut 9:8Ezek 20:24Isa 56:6Exod 32:10Num 14:11-12Num 14:22Num 14:291 Sam 8:8

Ezekiel 20:14¹⁴I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:9Ezek 20:22Ezek 36:22-23Eph 1:12Eph 1:6

Ezekiel 20:15¹⁵I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 95:11Ps 106:26Deut 1:34-35Ezek 20:23Heb 3:11Heb 3:18Heb 4:3Num 14:23-30Num 26:64-65

Ezekiel 20:16¹⁶I did this because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 15:39Ezek 14:3-4Ezek 20:8Acts 7:39-43Amos 5:25-26Exod 32:1-8Ezek 20:13-14Ezek 23:8Num 25:2

Ezekiel 20:17¹⁷Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 11:13Jer 4:27Jer 5:181 Sam 24:10Ezek 7:2Ezek 8:18Ezek 9:10Nah 1:8-9Neh 9:19Ps 78:37-38

Ezekiel 20:18¹⁸“‘But I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:18Acts 7:51Deut 4:3-6Ezek 20:7Ps 78:6-8Zech 1:2-4Jer 2:7Jer 3:9Luke 11:47-48Num 14:32-33

Ezekiel 20:19¹⁹I am the Lord your God; follow my statutes, observe my regulations, and carry them out.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 5:32-6:8Ezek 36:27Jer 3:22-23Ps 105:45Deut 12:1Ezek 11:20Ezek 37:24Ps 81:9-10Deut 10:1-12Deut 11:1

Ezekiel 20:20²⁰Treat my Sabbaths as holy and they will be a reminder of our relationship, and then you will know that I am the Lord your God.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 58:13Jer 17:22Exod 31:13-17Ezek 20:12Ezek 44:24Neh 13:15-22Exod 20:11Jer 17:24Jer 17:27

Ezekiel 20:21²¹But the children rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out (the one who obeys them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:13Ezek 20:8Deut 31:27Num 21:52 Chr 34:212 Chr 34:25Acts 13:18Dan 11:36Deut 9:23-24Ezek 13:15

Ezekiel 20:22²²But I refrained from doing so and acted instead for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:14Ezek 20:9Isa 48:9-11Jer 14:21Ps 78:38Ezek 20:17Jer 14:7Job 13:21Ps 79:9-10Dan 9:17

Ezekiel 20:23²³I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 26:33Deut 28:64-68Deut 32:26-27Deut 32:40Ezek 20:15Jer 15:4Ps 106:27Rev 10:5-6

Ezekiel 20:24²⁴I did this because they did not observe my regulations, they rejected my statutes, they desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers’ idols.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:16Ezek 6:9Amos 2:4Ezek 20:13Deut 4:19Ezek 18:12Ezek 18:15Ezek 18:6Job 31:26-27

Ezekiel 20:25²⁵I also gave them decrees that were not good and regulations by which they could not live.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 81:12Ezek 20:39Isa 66:42 Thess 2:9-11Deut 28:36Deut 4:27-28Ezek 14:9-11Ezek 20:26Rom 1:21-28

Ezekiel 20:26²⁶I declared them to be defiled because of their sacrifices —they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire —so that I might devastate them, so that they would know that I am the Lord.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 6:7Isa 63:17Lev 18:212 Kgs 17:17Ezek 16:20-21Ezek 20:312 Chr 28:32 Chr 33:62 Kgs 21:6Exod 13:12

Ezekiel 20:27²⁷“Therefore, speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In this way too your fathers blasphemed me when they were unfaithful to me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 2:24Ezek 2:7Ezek 3:11Ezek 3:27Ezek 3:4Ezek 18:24Rev 13:5

Ezekiel 20:28²⁸I brought them to the land that I swore to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offerings that provoked me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 6:13Isa 57:5-7Jer 2:7Jer 3:6Josh 23:14Neh 9:22-26Ezek 16:19Ezek 20:15Ezek 20:6Gen 15:18-21

Ezekiel 20:29²⁹So I said to them, “What is this high place you go to?”’ (So it is called “High Place” to this day.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 16:24-25Ezek 16:31

Ezekiel 20:30³⁰“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Will you defile yourselves like your fathers and engage in prostitution with detestable idols?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 16:12Jer 7:26Judg 2:19Acts 7:51Jer 9:14Matt 23:32Num 32:14

Ezekiel 20:31³¹When you present your sacrifices —when you make your sons pass through the fire—you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will not allow you to seek me!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:26Jer 7:31Ps 106:37-391 Sam 28:5-62 Kgs 3:13-14Deut 18:10-12Ezek 14:3-4Ezek 16:20Ezek 20:3Isa 1:15

Ezekiel 20:32³²“‘What you plan will never happen. You say, “We will be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 11:5Jer 44:17Dan 5:4Deut 4:28Ps 139:2Rev 9:201 Sam 8:5Deut 28:36Deut 28:64Deut 29:17

Ezekiel 20:33³³As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm and with an outpouring of rage, I will be king over you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 21:5Ezek 8:18Jer 42:18Jer 44:6Dan 9:11-12Lam 2:4

Ezekiel 20:34³⁴I will bring you out from the nations and will gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm and with an outpouring of rage!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 9:9-10Ezek 20:38Ezek 34:16Isa 27:9-13Jer 44:6Lam 2:4

Ezekiel 20:35³⁵I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 2:14Ezek 17:20Ezek 19:13Ezek 20:36Jer 2:35Rev 12:14Ezek 38:22Ezek 38:8Hos 4:1Jer 2:9

Ezekiel 20:36³⁶Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Sovereign Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:5-10Num 11:1-35Ezek 20:13Ezek 20:21Exod 32:7-35Num 14:1-45Num 16:1-50Num 25:1-18Ps 106:15-48

Ezekiel 20:37³⁷I will make you pass under the shepherd’s staff, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 33:13Lev 27:32Matt 25:32-33Ezek 16:59-60Ps 89:30-32Amos 3:2Lev 26:25Ezek 34:17

Ezekiel 20:38³⁸I will eliminate from among you the rebels and those who revolt against me. I will bring them out from the land where they have been residing, but they will not come to the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 9:9-10Ezek 13:9Ps 95:11Ezek 6:7Jer 44:14Mal 3:3Mal 4:1-3Zech 13:8-9Ezek 11:21Ezek 15:7

Ezekiel 20:39³⁹“‘As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Each of you go and serve your idols, if you will not listen to me. But my holy name will not be profaned again by your sacrifices and your idols.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:25-26Ezek 43:7Hos 4:17Isa 1:13-15Judg 10:142 Kgs 3:132 Thess 2:11Amos 4:4-5Ezek 23:37-39Isa 66:3

Ezekiel 20:40⁴⁰For there on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord, all the house of Israel will serve me, all of them in the land. I will accept them there, and there I will seek your contributions and your choice gifts, with all your holy things.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 56:7Isa 60:7Mal 3:41 Pet 2:5Ezek 17:23Ezek 43:27Isa 66:23Ezek 37:22-28Heb 12:20-22Heb 13:15

Ezekiel 20:41⁴¹When I bring you out from the nations and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, I will accept you along with your soothing aroma. I will display my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 28:25Ezek 11:17Ezek 38:23Ezek 28:22Ezek 36:23-24Ezek 39:27-29Isa 27:12-13Isa 5:16Jer 23:3Jer 30:3

Ezekiel 20:42⁴²Then you will know that I am the Lord when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore to give to your fathers.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 34:13Ezek 38:23Ezek 36:23-241 John 5:20Ezek 11:17-20Ezek 20:38Ezek 20:44Ezek 24:24Ezek 26:13Ezek 37:21

Ezekiel 20:43⁴³And there you will remember your conduct and all your deeds by which you defiled yourselves. You will despise yourselves because of all the evil deeds you have done.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 6:9Hos 5:15Ezek 36:31Jer 31:182 Cor 7:11Ezek 16:61-63Job 42:6Lev 26:39-41Luke 18:13Neh 1:8-10

Ezekiel 20:44⁴⁴Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I deal with you for the sake of my reputation and not according to your wicked conduct and corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 24:24Ezek 20:14Ezek 20:22Ezek 20:9Ps 115:11 Tim 1:16Eph 1:6Ezek 36:21-22Ezek 20:38Ps 79:9

Ezekiel 20:45⁴⁵(21:1) The Lord’ s message came to me:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Ezekiel 20:46⁴⁶“Son of man, turn toward the south, and speak out against the south. Prophesy against the open scrub land of the Negev,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 7:16Ezek 21:2Jer 13:19Deut 32:2Ezek 4:7Ezek 6:2Isa 30:6Jer 22:7Job 29:22Mic 2:6

Ezekiel 20:47⁴⁷and say to the scrub land of the Negev, ‘Listen to the Lord ’s message! This is what the Sovereign Lord has said: Look here, I am about to start a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The flaming fire will not be extinguished, and the whole surface of the ground from the Negev to the north will be scorched by it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 21:14Ezek 17:24Isa 24:1-6Isa 9:18-19Luke 23:31Deut 32:22Ezek 15:6-7Ezek 19:14Ezek 21:3-4Ezek 22:20-21

Ezekiel 20:48⁴⁸And everyone will see that I, the Lord, have burned it; it will not be extinguished.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 7:20-22Deut 29:24-28Isa 26:11Jer 40:2-3Jer 7:20Lam 2:16-17

Ezekiel 20:49⁴⁹Then I said, “O Sovereign Lord! They are saying of me, ‘Does he not simply speak in eloquent figures of speech?’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 16:25Acts 17:18Ezek 17:2Matt 13:13-14