Ezekiel 20:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you.

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  • Mic 3:7 : 7 The seers shall be disappointed, And the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; For there is no answer from God."
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • Matt 15:8-9 : 8 'These people draw near to me with their mouth, And honor me with their lips; But their heart is far from me. 9 And in vain do they worship me, Teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"
  • Luke 3:7 : 7 He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • John 4:24 : 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
  • 1 Sam 28:6 : 6 When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn't answer him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
  • Ps 50:15-21 : 15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me." 16 But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, That you have taken my covenant on your lips, 17 Seeing you hate instruction, And throw my words behind you? 18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have participated with adulterers. 19 "You give your mouth to evil. You harnesses your tongue for deceit. 20 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son. 21 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that the "I AM" was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, But the prayer of the upright is his delight.
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: How much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
  • Prov 28:9 : 9 He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.
  • Isa 1:12 : 12 When you come to appear before me, Who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
  • Ezek 14:3-4 : 3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them? 4 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;
  • Ezek 14:7-8 : 7 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself: 8 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • Ezek 20:31 : 31 and when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you;

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    30 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Do you pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play you the prostitute after their abominations?

    31 and when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you;

    32 and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

    33 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, will I be king over you:

  • Ezek 20:1-2
    2 verses
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    1 It happened in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], the tenth [day] of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.

    2 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 14:1-4
    4 verses
    78%

    1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me.

    2 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

    3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

    4 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;

  • 4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers;

  • 3 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, you shall not have [occasion] any more to use this proverb in Israel.

  • 1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 27 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

  • 9 Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What do you?

  • 3 He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you know.

  • 20 Then I said to them, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 17 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 45 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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

  • 7 Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I have not spoken?

  • 11 Go, get you 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.

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

  • 39 As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Go you, serve everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name shall you no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.

  • 1 The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying,

  • 1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 36 Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • 36 Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare to them their abominations.

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    14 I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.

    15 Also the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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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.

    26 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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    10 You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?

    11 Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?

  • 1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 23 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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

  • 12 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 4 He said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them.

  • 7 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself:

  • 17 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for [many] years that I would bring you against them?

  • 1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 21 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 1 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,

  • 32 Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.

  • 12 Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.

  • 28 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: There shall none of my words be deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be performed, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • 26 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: As touching the words which you have heard,

  • 4 For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live;