Ezekiel 36:20

World English Bible (2000)

When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land.

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  • Isa 52:5 : 5 "Now therefore, what do I here," says Yahweh, "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? those who rule over them mock," says Yahweh, "and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.
  • Rom 2:24 : 24 For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.
  • Jer 33:24 : 24 Don't consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
  • Exod 32:11-13 : 11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
  • Num 14:15-16 : 15 Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, 16 'Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.'
  • Josh 7:9 : 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?"
  • 2 Kgs 18:30 : 30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."
  • 2 Kgs 18:35 : 35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'"
  • 2 Kgs 19:10-12 : 10 'Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, "Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered? 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?
  • Ezek 12:16 : 16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • Dan 3:15 : 15 Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 36:21-23
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    82%

    21 But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went.

    22 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don't do [this] for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went.

    23 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

  • Ezek 36:16-19
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    80%

    16 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

    17 Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

    18 Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols;

    19 and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

  • Ezek 20:13-14
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    76%

    13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

    14 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

  • Lam 4:15
    76%

    15 Depart! they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don't touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more live [here].

  • Jer 2:7
    75%

    7 I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

  • Ezek 20:22-23
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    75%

    22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth.

    23 Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

  • 2 Chr 36:14
    74%

    14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 39:7
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    7 My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel; neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.

  • Ezek 23:38-39
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    74%

    38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

    39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

  • Ezek 20:9-10
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    73%

    9 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

    10 So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

  • Ezek 39:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    26 They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid;

    27 when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.

  • Jer 32:34
    73%

    34 But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

  • Ezek 22:26
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    26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

  • Zech 7:14
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    14 "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."

  • Ezek 11:16
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    16 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they are come.

  • Ezek 22:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you.

    16 You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    72%

    20 then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

  • Ezek 14:11
    72%

    11 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Ezek 44:7
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    7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add] to all your abominations.

  • Ezek 12:15
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    15 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.

  • Ezek 20:16
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    16 because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

  • Ezek 44:10
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    10 But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

  • Lev 26:33
    72%

    33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

  • Ezek 6:9
    72%

    9 Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

  • Ezra 9:11
    72%

    11 which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, 'The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness.

  • Lev 22:15
    72%

    15 The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to Yahweh,

  • Ezek 22:8
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    8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

  • Lev 22:32
    71%

    32 You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,

  • Ezek 43:8
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    8 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their doorpost beside my doorpost, and there was [but] the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have consumed them in my anger.

  • Ezek 28:25
    71%

    25 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.

  • 1 Kgs 9:7
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    7 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

  • Ezek 20:30
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    30 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Do you pollute yourselves in the way of your fathers? and do you play the prostitute after their abominations?

  • Ezek 33:29
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    29 Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.

  • Ezek 39:24
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    24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them.

  • Ezek 5:14
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    14 Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

  • Isa 43:28
    71%

    28 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult."

  • Ezek 36:3
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    3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;

  • Ezek 11:18
    71%

    18 They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of it and all its abominations from there.

  • Lev 18:27
    71%

    27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);