Ezekiel 2:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

For they are impudent children and hardhearted. I do send you to them; and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD.

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  • Ezek 3:7 : 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hardhearted.
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
  • Jer 6:15 : 15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
  • Ps 95:8 : 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
  • Isa 48:4 : 4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow as bronze;
  • Jer 3:3 : 3 Therefore, the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
  • Prov 21:29 : 29 A wicked man hardens his face, but as for the upright, he directs his way.
  • Deut 10:16 : 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.
  • Deut 31:27 : 27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
  • 1 Kgs 22:14 : 14 And Micaiah said, As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that will I speak.
  • 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 Now do not be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD, and enter into His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.
  • 2 Chr 36:13 : 13 And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning to the LORD God of Israel.
  • Jer 8:12 : 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore, they shall fall among those that fall: when I punish them, they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
  • Jer 26:2-3 : 2 Thus says the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD's house and speak to all the cities of Judah, who come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not omit a word: 3 Perhaps they will listen and each man will turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the evil I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: therefore, be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
  • Acts 20:26-27 : 26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. 27 For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 3And he said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even to this very day.

  • Ezek 3:4-11
    8 verses
    80%

    4And he said to me, Son of man, go, get yourself to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

    5For you are not sent to a people of a strange language and hard speech, but to the house of Israel;

    6Not to many people of a strange language and hard speech, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

    7But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hardhearted.

    8Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.

    9Like an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: do not fear them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

    10Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

    11And go, get to those of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they refuse.

  • Ezek 2:5-8
    4 verses
    79%

    5And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse, (for they are a rebellious house,) will yet know that there has been a prophet among them.

    6And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell among scorpions: do not be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

    7And you shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse: for they are most rebellious.

    8But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat what I give you.

  • Jer 1:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6Then I said, Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

    7But the LORD said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for you shall go to all to whom I shall send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.

  • Ezek 3:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    26And I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

    27But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; He that hears, let him hear; and he that refuses, let him refuse: for they are a rebellious house.

  • Ezek 12:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1The word of the LORD also came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see but do not see; and ears to hear but do not hear: for they are a rebellious house.

    3Therefore, son of man, prepare your belongings for departure, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall move from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

  • 9That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD:

  • Ezek 14:2-4
    3 verses
    72%

    2And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    3Son 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 be inquired of at all by them?

    4Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Every man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him who comes according to the multitude of his idols;

  • Ezek 12:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What are you doing?

    10Say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel who are among them.

  • 13Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, look, it is a stiff-necked people:

  • Jer 7:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26Yet they did not listen to me, nor incline their ear, but stiffened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

    27Therefore you shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.

  • 4Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

  • 27Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

  • 4And you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

  • 11Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 17Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.

  • 4Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Make them know the abominations of their fathers:

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

  • 17Therefore prepare yourself, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: do not be dismayed at their faces, lest I confound you before them.

  • 2Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

  • 1Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

  • 14Nevertheless they would not listen, but stiffened their necks, like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God.

  • 6And you shall say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; O house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,

  • 26Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 7So you, O son of man, I have set you a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

  • 10To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

  • 10They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

  • 14Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 1The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

  • 12The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

  • 9And He said, Go and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and you see indeed, but do not perceive.

  • 1The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,