Ezekiel 3:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.

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  • Ezek 2:4 : 4 And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.
  • 1 Sam 8:7 : 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them.
  • Isa 3:9 : 9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.
  • Jer 3:3 : 3 So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
  • Jer 25:3-4 : 3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, even till this day, for twenty-three years, the word of the Lord has been coming to me, and I have given it to you, getting up early and talking to you; but you have not given ear. 4 And the Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you have not given attention and your ear has not been open to give hearing;
  • Jer 44:4-5 : 4 And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me. 5 But they gave no attention, and their ears were not open so that they might be turned from their evil-doing and from burning perfume to other gods.
  • Jer 44:16 : 16 As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you.
  • Ezek 24:7 : 7 For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 Whoever gives ear to you, gives ear to me; and whoever is against you, is against me; and whoever is against me, is against him who sent me.
  • Luke 13:34 : 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!
  • Luke 19:14 : 14 But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.
  • John 5:40-47 : 40 And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life. 41 I do not take honour from men; 42 But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts. 43 I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval. 44 How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God? 45 Put out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your hopes. 46 If you had belief in Moses you would have belief in me; for his writings are about me. 47 If you have no belief in his writings, how will you have belief in my words?
  • John 15:20-24 : 20 Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours. 21 They will do all this to you because of my name--because they have no knowledge of him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin. 23 He who has hate for me has hate for my Father. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.

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  • Ezek 3:4-6
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    4 And he said to me, Son of man, go now to the children of Israel, and say my words to them.

    5 For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;

    6 Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.

  • Ezek 3:8-11
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    8 See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows.

    9 Like a diamond harder than rock I have made your brow: have no fear of them and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.

    10 Then he said to me, Son of man, take into your heart all my words which I am about to say to you, and let your ears be open to them.

    11 And go now to those who have been taken away as prisoners, to the children of your people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said; if they give ear or if they do not.

  • Ezek 2:3-5
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    3 And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to an uncontrolled nation which has gone against me: they and their fathers have been sinners against me even to this very day.

    4 And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.

    5 And they, if they give ear to you or if they do not give ear (for they are an uncontrolled people), will see that there has been a prophet among them.

  • Jer 7:26-28
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    26 But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.

    27 And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.

    28 And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.

  • Jer 17:23
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    23 But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14
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    14 And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

  • Zech 7:11-13
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    11 But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

    12 And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.

    13 And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:

  • Ezek 3:26-27
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    26 And I will make your tongue fixed to the roof of your mouth, so that you have no voice and may not make protests to them: for they are an uncontrolled people.

    27 But when I have talk with you I will make your mouth open, and you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Let the hearer give ear; and as for him who will not, let him keep his ears shut: for they are an uncontrolled people.

  • Ezek 2:7
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    7 And you are to give them my words, if they give ear to you or if they do not: for they are uncontrolled.

  • Neh 9:16
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    16 But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

  • Jer 11:8
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    8 But they gave no attention and did not give ear, but they went on, every man in the pride of his evil heart: so I sent on them all the curses in this agreement, which I gave them orders to keep, but they did not.

  • Jer 7:24
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    24 But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.

  • Ezek 12:2
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    2 Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people.

  • Jer 6:10
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    10 To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.

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    11 But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.

  • Deut 9:13
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    13 And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:

  • Jer 11:10-11
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    10 They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.

    11 So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.

  • Isa 6:9-10
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    9 And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.

    10 Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

  • Jer 5:3
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    3 O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

  • Ezek 14:5
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    5 So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.

  • Neh 9:29-30
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    29 And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hearts were lifted up, and they gave no attention to your orders and went against your decisions (which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him), and turning their backs on you, made their necks stiff and did not give ear.

    30 Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.

  • Jer 13:11
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    11 For as a band goes tightly round a man's body, so I made all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah tightly united to me; so that they might be a people for me and a name and a praise and a glory: but they would not give ear.

  • Jer 19:15
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    15 The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send on this town and on all her towns all the evil which I have said; because they made their necks stiff, so that they might not give ear to my words.

  • Ezek 12:9
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    9 Son of man, has not Israel, the uncontrolled people, said to you, What are you doing?

  • Jer 5:21
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    21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

  • Acts 7:51
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    51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

  • Jer 7:16
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    16 And as for you (Jeremiah), make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them, make no request for them to me: for I will not give ear.

  • Exod 7:14
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    14 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Pharaoh's heart is unchanged; he will not let the people go.

  • Acts 28:27
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    27 For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

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    10 And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.

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    9 For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:

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    32 Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel.

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    16 Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

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    17 For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, I will send on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem all the evil which I said I would do to them: because I sent my words to them, but they did not give ear; crying out to them, but they gave no answer.