Ezekiel 40:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel.

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  • Ezek 44:5 : 5 And the Lord said to me, Son of man, take to heart, and let your eyes see and your ears be open to everything I say to you about all the rules of the house of the Lord and all its laws; and take note of the ways into the house and all the ways out of the holy place.
  • Jer 26:2 : 2 This is what the Lord has said: Take your place in the open square of the Lord's house and say to all the towns of Judah, who come into the Lord's house for worship, everything I give you orders to say to them: keep back not a word;
  • Ezek 2:7-8 : 7 And you are to give them my words, if they give ear to you or if they do not: for they are uncontrolled. 8 But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.
  • Isa 21:10 : 10 O my crushed ones, the grain of my floor! I have given you the word which came to me from the Lord of armies, the God of Israel.
  • Ezek 43:10 : 10 You, son of man, give the children of Israel an account of this house, so that they may be shamed because of their evil-doing: and let them see the vision of it and its image.
  • Acts 20:27 : 27 For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.
  • 1 Cor 11:23 : 23 For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread,
  • Ezek 3:17 : 17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel: so give ear to the word of my mouth, and give them word from me of their danger.
  • Ezek 2:1 : 1 And he said to me, Son of man, get up on your feet, so that I may say words to you.
  • Matt 10:27 : 27 What I say to you in the dark, say in the light: and what comes to your ear secretly, say publicly from the house-tops.
  • Matt 13:9 : 9 He who has ears, let him give ear.
  • Matt 13:51-52 : 51 Are all these things now clear to you? They say to him, Yes. 52 And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.

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  • Ezek 40:1-3
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    1 In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there.

    2 In the visions of God he took me into the land of Israel, and put me down on a very high mountain, on which there was, as it seemed, a building like a town opposite me.

    3 He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway.

  • Ezek 44:4-5
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    4 And he took me to the north doorway in front of the house; and, looking, I saw that the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord; and I went down on my face.

    5 And the Lord said to me, Son of man, take to heart, and let your eyes see and your ears be open to everything I say to you about all the rules of the house of the Lord and all its laws; and take note of the ways into the house and all the ways out of the holy place.

  • Ezek 3:10-11
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    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.

  • 5 And there was a wall on the outside of the house all round, and in the man's hand there was a measuring rod six cubits long by a cubit and a hand's measure: so he took the measure of the building from side to side, one rod; and from base to top, one rod.

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

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    10 You, son of man, give the children of Israel an account of this house, so that they may be shamed because of their evil-doing: and let them see the vision of it and its image.

    11 And they will be shamed by what they have done; so give them the knowledge of the form of the house and its structure, and the ways out of it and into it, and all its laws and its rules, writing it down for them: so that they may keep all its laws and do them.

  • 6 And the voice of one talking to me came to my ears from inside the house; and the man was by my side.

  • 6 And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then he took me to the river's edge.

  • Ezek 12:1-3
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    1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    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.

    3 And you, O son of man, by day, before their eyes, get ready the vessels of one who is taken away, and go away from your place to another place before their eyes: it may be that they will see, though they are an uncontrolled people.

  • Ezek 2:1-2
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    1 And he said to me, Son of man, get up on your feet, so that I may say words to you.

    2 And at his words the spirit came into me and put me on my feet; and his voice came to my ears.

  • Ezek 8:4-9
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    4 And I saw the glory of the Lord there, as in the vision which I saw in the valley.

    5 Then he said to me, Son of man, now let your eyes be lifted up in the direction of the north; and on looking in the direction of the north, to the north of the doorway of the altar, I saw this image of envy by the way in.

    6 And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing? even the very disgusting things which the children of Israel are doing here, causing me to go far away from my holy place? but you will see other most disgusting things.

    7 And he took me to the door of the open place; and looking, I saw a hole in the wall.

    8 And he said to me, Son of man, make a hole in the wall: and after making a hole in the wall I saw a door.

    9 And he said to me, Go in and see the evil and disgusting things which they are doing here.

  • 7 So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel; and you are to give ear to the word of my mouth and give them news from me of their danger.

  • 17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel: so give ear to the word of my mouth, and give them word from me of their danger.

  • 27 Son of man, see, the children of Israel say, The vision which he sees is for the days which are a long way off, and his words are of times still far away.

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    12 And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.

    13 Then he said to me, You will see even more disgusting things which they do.

  • 2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • 15 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? you will see even more disgusting things than these.

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    4 For this cause be a prophet against them, be a prophet, O son of man.

    5 And the spirit of the Lord came on me, and he said to me, Say, These are the words of the Lord: This is what you have said, O children of Israel; what comes into your mind is clear to me.

  • Ezek 2:8-9
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    8 But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.

    9 And looking, I saw a hand stretched out to me, and I saw the roll of a book in it;

  • 17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? is it a small thing to the children of Judah that they do the disgusting things which they are doing here? for they have made the land full of violent behaviour, making me angry again and again: and see, they put the branch to my nose.

  • 1 And you, son of man, take a back and put it before you and on it make a picture of a town, even Jerusalem.

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

  • 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • 17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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    1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    2 Son of man, let your face be turned to Jerusalem, let your words be dropped in the direction of her holy place, and be a prophet against the land of Israel;

  • 11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.

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    1 And lifting up my eyes I saw four horns.

    2 And I said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have sent Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem in flight.

  • 2 And he made me go past them round about: and I saw that there was a very great number of them on the face of the wide valley, and they were very dry.

  • 3 And the vision which I saw was like the vision I had seen when he came for the destruction of the town: and like the vision which I saw by the river Chebar; and I went down on my face.

  • 1 And he said to me, Son of man, take this roll for your food, and go and say my words to the children of Israel.

  • 24 Then the spirit came into me and put me on my feet; and he had talk with me and said to me, Go and keep yourself shut up inside your house.

  • 17 So he came and took his place near where I was; and when he came, I was full of fear and went down on my face: but he said to me, Let it be clear to you, O son of man; for the vision has to do with the time of the end.