Ezekiel 12:6
While they are watching, raise your baggage onto your shoulder and carry it out in the dark. You must cover your face so that you cannot see the ground because I have made you an object lesson to the house of Israel.”
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Referenced Verses
- Ezek 4:3 : 3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.
- Ezek 24:24 : 24 Ezekiel will be an object lesson for you; you will do all that he has done. When it happens, then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.’
- Isa 8:18 : 18 Look, I and the sons whom the LORD has given me are reminders and object lessons in Israel, sent from the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, who lives on Mount Zion.
- 1 Sam 28:8 : 8 So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing and left, accompanied by two of his men. They came to the woman at night and said,“Use your ritual pit to conjure up for me the one I tell you.”
- 2 Sam 15:30 : 30 As David was going up the Mount of Olives, he was weeping as he went; his head was covered and his feet were bare. All the people who were with him also had their heads covered and were weeping as they went up.
- Job 24:17 : 17 For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
- Isa 20:2-4 : 2 At that time the LORD announced through Isaiah son of Amoz:“Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and take your sandals off your feet.” He did as instructed and walked around in undergarments and barefoot. 3 Later the LORD explained,“In the same way that my servant Isaiah has walked around in undergarments and barefoot for the past three years, as an object lesson and omen pertaining to Egypt and Cush, 4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, both young and old. They will be in undergarments and barefoot, with the buttocks exposed; the Egyptians will be publicly humiliated.
- Ezek 12:11-12 : 11 Say,‘I am an object lesson for you. Just as I have done, it will be done to them; they will go into exile and captivity.’ 12 “The prince who is among them will raise his belongings onto his shoulder in darkness, and will go out. He will dig a hole in the wall to leave through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Ezek 12:7-126 verses85%
7 So I did just as I was commanded. I carried out my belongings packed for exile during the day, and at evening I dug myself a hole through the wall with my hands. I went out in the darkness, carrying my baggage on my shoulder while they watched.
8 The LORD’s message came to me in the morning:
9 “Son of man, has not the house of Israel, that rebellious house, said to you,‘What are you doing?’
10 Say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD has said: The prince will raise this burden in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel within it.’
11 Say,‘I am an object lesson for you. Just as I have done, it will be done to them; they will go into exile and captivity.’
12 “The prince who is among them will raise his belongings onto his shoulder in darkness, and will go out. He will dig a hole in the wall to leave through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.
- Ezek 12:2-54 verses84%
2 “Son of man, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house. They have eyes to see, but do not see, and ears to hear, but do not hear, because they are a rebellious house.
3 “Therefore, son of man, pack up your belongings as if for exile. During the day, while they are watching, pretend to go into exile. Go from where you live to another place. Perhaps they will understand, although they are a rebellious house.
4 Bring out your belongings packed for exile during the day while they are watching. And go out at evening, while they are watching, as if for exile.
5 While they are watching, dig a hole in the wall and carry your belongings out through it.
- Ezek 4:3-86 verses75%
3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.
4 “Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity.
5 I have determined that the number of the years of their iniquity are to be the number of days for you– 390 days. So bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 “When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days– I have assigned one day for each year.
7 You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.
8 Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.
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17 Look, the LORD will throw you far away, you mere man! He will wrap you up tightly.
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6 “And you, son of man, groan with an aching heart and bitterness; groan before their eyes.
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4 The man said to me,“Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”
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32 Understand that it is not for your sake I am about to act, declares the Sovereign LORD. Be ashamed and embarrassed by your behavior, O house of Israel.
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7 So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I vow that the nations around you will endure insults as well.
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25 As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and tie you up with them, so you cannot go out among them.
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12 He said to me,“Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? For they think,‘The LORD does not see us! The LORD has abandoned the land!’”
- Ezek 24:22-243 verses70%
22 Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.
23 Your turbans will be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you will not mourn or weep, but you will rot for your iniquities and groan among yourselves.
24 Ezekiel will be an object lesson for you; you will do all that he has done. When it happens, then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.’
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4 The LORD said to him,“Go through the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it.”
- Ezek 39:23-242 verses70%
23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword.
24 According to their uncleanness and rebellion I have dealt with them, and I hid my face from them.
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16 Zion’s Time to Celebrate I commission you as my spokesman; I cover you with the palm of my hand, to establish the sky and to found the earth, to say to Zion,‘You are my people.’”
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8 I will darken all the lights in the sky over you, and I will darken your land, declares the Sovereign LORD.
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54 so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in consoling them.
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20 The sticks you write on will be in your hand in front of them.
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16 “Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.
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10 “As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, so that they will be ashamed of their sins and measure the pattern.
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12 For seven months Israel will bury them, in order to cleanse the land.
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4 “Take the shorts that you bought and are wearing and go at once to Perath. Bury the shorts there in a crack in the rocks.”
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12 Yet do not depart quickly or leave in a panic. For the LORD goes before you; the God of Israel is your rear guard.
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27 The LORD said to me,“I have made you like a metal assayer to test my people like ore. You are to observe them and evaluate how they behave.”
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6 For this is what the Lord has told me:“Go, post a guard! He must report what he sees.
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16 You follow Omri’s edicts, and all the practices of Ahab’s dynasty; you follow their policies. Therefore I will make you an appalling sight, the city’s inhabitants will be taunted derisively, and nations will mock all of you.”
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6 Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads.
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7 “As for you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must warn them on my behalf.
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29 I will no longer hide my face from them, when I pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
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6 Many days later the LORD said to me,“Go at once to Perath and get the shorts I ordered you to bury there.”
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8 You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm and fasten them as symbols on your forehead.
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4 He said to me,“Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.
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11 Go to the exiles, to your fellow countrymen, and speak to them– say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says,’ whether they pay attention or not.”
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1 Death is Imminent Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel:
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8 “I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.