Ezekiel 20:46

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“Son of man, turn toward the south, and speak out against the south. Prophesy against the open scrub land of the Negev,

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  • Ezek 21:2 : 2 “Son of man, turn toward Jerusalem and speak out against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel
  • Amos 7:16 : 16 So now listen to the LORD’s message! You say,‘Don’t prophesy against Israel! Don’t preach against the family of Isaac!’
  • Jer 13:19 : 19 The gates of the towns in southern Judah will be shut tight. No one will be able to go in or out of them. All Judah will be carried off into exile. They will be completely carried off into exile.’”
  • Jer 22:7 : 7 I will send men against it to destroy it with their axes and hatchets. They will hack up its fine cedar panels and columns and throw them into the fire.
  • Ezek 4:7 : 7 You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.
  • Ezek 6:2 : 2 “Son of man, turn toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them:
  • Mic 2:6 : 6 ‘Don’t preach with such impassioned rhetoric,’ they say excitedly.‘These prophets should not preach of such things; we will not be overtaken by humiliation.’
  • Zech 11:1-2 : 1 The History and Future of Judah’s Wicked Kings Open your gates, Lebanon, so that the fire may consume your cedars. 2 Howl, fir tree, because the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees have been destroyed. Howl, oaks of Bashan, because the impenetrable forest has fallen.
  • Deut 32:2 : 2 My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.
  • Job 29:22 : 22 After I had spoken, they did not respond; my words fell on them drop by drop.
  • Isa 30:6 : 6 This is an oracle about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.

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