Ezekiel 17:18
He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Take note– he gave his promise and did all these things– he will not escape!
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Referenced Verses
- 1 Chr 29:24 : 24 All the officers and warriors, as well as all of King David’s sons, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.
- 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 Now, don’t be stubborn like your fathers! Submit to the LORD and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the LORD your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.
- Lam 5:6 : 6 We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.
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- Ezek 17:19-202 verses86%
19“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, I will certainly repay him for despising my oath and breaking my covenant!
20I will throw my net over him and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylon and judge him there because of the unfaithfulness he committed against me.
- Ezek 17:13-175 verses82%
13He took one from the royal family, made a treaty with him, and put him under oath. He then took the leaders of the land
14so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.
15But this one from Israel’s royal family rebelled against the king of Babylon by sending his emissaries to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he prosper? Will the one doing these things escape? Can he break the covenant and escape?
16“‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, surely in the city of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke– in the middle of Babylon he will die!
17Pharaoh with his great army and mighty horde will not help him in battle, when siege ramps are erected and siege-walls are built to kill many people.
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59“‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant.
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20He attacks his friends; he breaks his solemn promises to them.
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18I will punish those people who have violated their covenant with me. I will make them like the calf they cut in two and passed between its pieces. I will do so because they did not keep the terms of the covenant they made in my presence.
- Ezek 18:17-182 verses74%
17refrains from wrongdoing, does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; he will surely live.
18As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.
- Ezek 22:13-142 verses74%
13“‘See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.
14Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it!
- Ezek 18:11-144 verses74%
11(though the father did not do any of them). He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,
12oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,
13engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. He will bear the responsibility for his own death.
14“But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father’s example.
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31Because he has despised the LORD’s message and has broken his commandment, that person must be completely cut off. His iniquity will be on him.’”
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2If a man makes a vow to the LORD or takes an oath of binding obligation on himself, he must not break his word, but must do whatever he has promised.
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22It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.
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24“But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing according to all the abominable practices the wicked carry out, will he live? All his righteous acts will not be remembered; because of the unfaithful acts he has done and the sin he has committed, he will die.
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15if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant–
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3Tell them that the LORD, the God of Israel, says,‘Anyone who does not keep the terms of the covenant will be under a curse.
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23But those in Jerusalem will view it as a false omen. They have sworn solemn oaths, but the king of Babylon will accuse them of violations in order to seize them.
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26When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.
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42He will extend his power against other lands; the land of Egypt will not escape.
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22Armies will be suddenly swept away in defeat before him; both they and a covenant leader will be destroyed.
23After entering into an alliance with him, he will behave treacherously; he will ascend to power with only a small force.
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8Highways are empty, there are no travelers. Treaties are broken, witnesses are despised, human life is treated with disrespect.
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11then there will be an oath to the LORD between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods, and its owner will accept this, and he will not have to pay.
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11I gave it over to the leader of the nations. He has judged it thoroughly, as its sinfulness deserves. I have thrown it out.
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18Then he will turn his attention to the coastal regions and will capture many of them. But a commander will bring his shameful conduct to a halt; in addition, he will make him pay for his shameful conduct.
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4or when a person swears an oath, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips, whether to do evil or to do good, with regard to anything which the individual might speak thoughtlessly in an oath, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty with regard to one of these oaths–
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17All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us.
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22None of the sins he has committed will be held against him; because of the righteousness he has done, he will live.
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18The one who lacks sense strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.
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20“When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I set an obstacle before him, he will die. If you have not warned him, he will die for his sin. The righteous deeds he performed will not be considered, but I will hold you accountable for his death.
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39You have repudiated your covenant with your servant; you have thrown his crown to the ground.
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8I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
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3The speaker went on to say,“This is a curse traveling across the whole earth. For example, according to the curse whoever steals will be removed from the community; or on the other hand(according to the curse) whoever swears falsely will suffer the same fate.”
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25Then people will say,“Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
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14It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”
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28Because he considered and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die.
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11For the nations of Israel and Judah have been very unfaithful to me,”says the LORD.
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15Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.
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9“It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.
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11The LORD’s message came to me:
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7Indictments Against the Cities of Israel and Judah At Adam they broke the covenant; Oh how they were unfaithful to me!
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15For you say,“We have made a treaty with death, with Sheol we have made an agreement. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by it will not reach us. For we have made a lie our refuge, we have hidden ourselves in a deceitful word.”