Ezekiel 2:5

World English Bible (2000)

They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.

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  • Ezek 33:33 : 33 When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.
  • Ezek 3:27 : 27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
  • Ezek 2:7 : 7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
  • John 15:22 : 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
  • Acts 13:46 : 46 Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
  • Matt 10:12-15 : 12 As you enter into the household, greet it. 13 If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn't worthy, let your peace return to you. 14 Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet. 15 Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
  • Luke 10:10-12 : 10 But into whatever city you enter, and they don't receive you, go out into its streets and say, 11 'Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near to you.' 12 I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.
  • Rom 3:3 : 3 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
  • 2 Cor 2:15-17 : 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish; 16 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? 17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
  • Ezek 3:10-11 : 10 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears. 11 Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
  • Ezek 3:19 : 19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
  • Ezek 33:9 : 9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.

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  • Ezek 2:6-8
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    6 You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

    7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.

    8 But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don't be rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.

  • Ezek 3:26-27
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    26 and I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.

    27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

  • Ezek 2:3-4
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    3 He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.

    4 The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you to them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Ezek 3:9-11
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    9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

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

    11 Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

  • Ezek 33:32-33
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    32 Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don't do them.

    33 When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.

  • Ezek 12:1-3
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    1 The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying,

    2 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house.

    3 Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move 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.

  • Ezek 3:4-7
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    4 He said to me, Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

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

    6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

    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 hard-hearted.

  • Ezek 12:9-10
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    9 Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What are you doing?

    10 Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden [concerns] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are.

  • Jer 7:27
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    27 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.

  • Mic 2:6
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    6 "Don't prophesy!" They prophesy. "Don't prophesy about these things. Disgrace won't overtake us."

  • Ezek 12:25
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    25 For I am Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Jer 6:18
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    18 Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.

  • Jer 28:7
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    7 Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people:

  • 2 Chr 24:19
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    19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

  • Isa 30:9
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    9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;

  • Ezek 11:4-5
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    4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.

    5 The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says Yahweh: Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.

  • Hos 5:2
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    2 The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.

  • Jer 6:10
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    10 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen. Behold, the word of Yahweh has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

  • Ezek 3:17
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    17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.

  • Jer 5:13
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    13 The prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them."

  • Jer 5:15
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    15 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel," says Yahweh. "It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand what they say.

  • Ezek 13:2
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    2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear the word of Yahweh:

  • Jer 26:4-5
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    4 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

    5 to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;

  • Jer 5:20
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    20 "Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

  • Ezek 6:10
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    10 They shall know that I am Yahweh: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.

  • Ezek 14:2
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    2 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • Jer 29:19
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    19 because they have not listened to my words, says Yahweh, with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear, says Yahweh.

  • Ezek 33:7
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    7 So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

  • Neh 9:30
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    30 Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet would they not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

  • Ezek 17:11
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    11 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • Zech 7:12
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    12 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

  • Amos 7:16
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    16 Now therefore listen to the word of Yahweh: 'You say, Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't preach against the house of Isaac.'

  • Ezek 13:16
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    16 [to wit], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Jer 11:10
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    10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone 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.

  • Neh 9:26
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    26 "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.