Ezekiel 20:32

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“‘What you plan will never happen. You say,“We will be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.”

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  • Jer 44:17 : 17 Instead we will do everything we vowed we would do. We will sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the goddess called the Queen of Heaven just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders previously did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and had no troubles.
  • Ezek 11:5 : 5 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon me and said to me,“Say: This is what the LORD says:‘This is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; I know what goes through your minds.
  • Dan 5:4 : 4 As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
  • Rev 9:20 : 20 The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood– idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.
  • Deut 4:28 : 28 There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.
  • Deut 28:36 : 36 The LORD will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.
  • Deut 28:64 : 64 The LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.
  • Deut 29:17 : 17 You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)
  • 1 Sam 8:5 : 5 They said to him,“Look, you are old, and your sons don’t follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead us, just like all the other nations have.”
  • Ps 139:2 : 2 You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.
  • Prov 19:21 : 21 There are many plans in a person’s mind, but it is the counsel of the LORD which will stand.
  • Isa 37:19 : 19 They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God– what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
  • Ezek 38:10 : 10 “‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
  • Jer 44:29 : 29 Moreover the LORD says,‘I will make something happen to prove that I will punish you in this place. I will do it so that you will know that my threats to bring disaster on you will prove true.
  • Lam 3:37 : 37 מ(Mem) Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it?

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    12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

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    4Do not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the LORD your God.

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