Ezekiel - At A Glance

Theme: The book of Ezekiel chronicles the prophet's life and ministry. He fearlessly preached the word of God to the exiled Jews. Because of the nation's sins God allowed Judah to be destroyed. But there was still hope. God promised to restore the land to those who remained faithful to Him.

Ezekiel 1
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1-3_In the thirtieth year on the fifth day of the fourth month I was by the river Chebar with the exiles. The heavens were opened and I saw visions of God. It was the fifth month of the fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile that the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest in the land of the Chaldeans.

__4-7_As I looked, a north wind was bringing a storm. Fire flashed continually in a great cloud with what appeared to be glowing metal in its midst. Four living creatures with human form were in the fire. Their legs were straight and their feet were calves hooves. They appeared like burnished bronze.

__8-11_They had wings on four sides with human hands under them. Each being had four faces looking straight ahead. Each had the face of a man, a lion, a bull and an eagle. Their wings spread out with two used to touch another being's wings. With two of their wings they covered their bodies.

__12-14_Each being went straight forward according to where the spirit was about to go. In the midst of the four beings there was something like burning coals of fire. This fire was like torches darting back and forth between them. Lightning flashed from the fire. And the living beings ran to and for like bolts of lightning.

__15-17_As I looked at the living beings I saw a wheel on the earth beside each of the four. The appearance of the wheels was like sparkling beryl. It seemed as though each wheel was within another wheel. When they moved they moved in any of four directions. They did this without turning.

__18-21_Their rims were lofty and filled with eyes all around. Wherever the living beings moved the wheels followed. Wherever the spirit was about to go the living beings went in that direction. The spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.

__22-25_There was something like crystal extending over the heads of the beings. As they stretched out two of their wings toward each other their other two wings covered their bodies. The sound of their wings made a sound like rushing waters. When they stood still they dropped their wings. A voice came from the expanse over their heads.

__26-27_Above the expanse above their heads there was something like a throne, sapphire in appearance. On it was a figure with the appearance of a man. From His waist up He looked like glowing metal with fire within. From His waist down He appeared something like fire. There was radiance all around Him.

__28_The surrounding radiance was as a rainbow in the clouds. Such was the glory of the LORD. When I saw it I fell on my face. Then I heard a voice speaking.

Ezekiel 2
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1-3_He said to me, Son of Man, stand up so that I may speak with you. As He spoke the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet and I listened to Him. He said, I am sending you to the children of Israel, a rebellious people. They and their fathers have sinned against me to this very day.

__4-6_They are stubborn and obstinate like children. I am sending you to tell them what I have to say. Whether they listen or not, they will know that a prophet has been among them. Do not fear them or their words. You will be among thistles and thorns. You will sit on scorpions. They are a rebellious lot.

__7-10_No matter how they react, you must speak My words to them. Now you, Son of Man, listen to Me. Do not be rebellious as they are. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you. I looked and saw a hand extended to me with a scroll in it. He spread it out and I saw Lamentations, mourning and woe, written on it front and back.

Ezekiel 3
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1-7_Then He said to me, Son of Man, eat this scroll and then speak to the house of Israel. So I ate it and it was sweet as honey in my mouth. Then He said, you are being sent to a people who are intelligent and whose language you know. They should listen to you. But they will not listen because they are stubborn.

__8-13_Behold, I have made your face and forehead like emery, harder than flint because they are hard. They are a rebellious house. You must tell them everything I have said whether they listen or not. Then the Spirit of the LORD lifted me up and I heard a great sound of wings behind me and the sound of the wheels.

__14-17_So the Spirit lifted me up and carried me away, His hand was strong upon me. Then I came to the exiles living beside the river Chebar at Tel-Abib. I sat there seven days and this caused consternation among them. At the end of the seven days the word of the LORD came to me saying, whatever I tell you, that you must say to them.

__18-21_When I say to the wicked you shall surely die, if you do not tell them this, you will be held accountable for their sin. Whether or not they respond to my words, if you faithfully relay My words to them, you will have delivered yourself.

__22-24_And the hand of the LORD was on me telling me to come out to the plain where He would speak to me. So I went there and the glory of the LORD was there like it had been by the river Chebar. I fell on my face. The Spirit entered me and stood me on my feet. He said, go shut yourself in your house.

__25-27_As for you Son of Man, they will bind you with ropes so that you cannot go out among them. Besides this, I will keep you from speaking for they are a rebellious house. But when I speak to you I will open your mouth. Then you are to tell them what I have said. If they refuse to listen, you have at least done as I asked.

Ezekiel 4
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1-3_Now, Son of Man, get a brick. Inscribe the name Jerusalem on it and place it before you. Then build a siege wall against it, pitch camps around it and place battering rams all around it. Set up an iron plate between you and the city. It being under siege is to be a sign to the house of Israel.

__4-6_You are to lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. You shall do this three hundred and ninety days, one day for each year of their iniquity. When you have completed these days you shall lie down on your right side for forty days, a day for each year.

__7-9_Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared to prophecy against it. I will keep you from turning one way or the other until you have completed the days of your siege. Prepare a vessel of wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt as food for the three hundred and ninety days.

__10-13_Each time you eat you are to eat eight ounces of your food. From time to time you will drink two or three cups of water. The barley cake you eat you shall bake over human excrement while they watch. Thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread, being unclean among the nations where I shall banish them.

__14-17_I protested to the LORD that I had never eaten what is defiled from my youth until now. So He allowed me to use cow's dung in place of human excrement to prepare my bread. Then he added, Son of Man, I am going to make bread and water so scarce in Jerusalem that they will measure out their allowance day by day and they will not waste away.

Ezekiel 5
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1-3_As for you, Son of Man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber's razor on your head and beard. Divide the hair by weight. Burn one third in the city when the siege is complete. Strike one third with the sword and scatter the remaining third to the wind. Take just a few and bind them to the edges of your robes.

__4-6_Then throw even some of those into the fire. From these fire will spread to all the house of Israel. Thus says the LORD God. This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations. She rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than other nations. She has rejected My ordinances and not walked in My statutes.

__7-11_Therefore I am against you and will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations. What I will do to you I have never done before, and I will I do it again. Things will be so bad that fathers will eat sons and sons will eat fathers. You have defiled My sanctuary with your idols. My eye will have no pity. I will not spare.

__12-17_One third of you will die by plague or famine, one third will fall by the sword and one third I will scatter to the wind with a sword unsheathed behind them. In this way My anger will be spent and they will know that I am the LORD. You will be a desolation and a reproach among the nations. I will severely chastise you.

Ezekiel 6
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1-7_Son of man, prophesy against the mountains of Israel. Tell them that the LORD is bringing a sword to destroy them and their high places. Their incense altars will be smashed and He will slay them in front of their idols. Their cities will be destroyed and their accomplishments blotted out. Then you will know that He is the LORD.

__8-10_However, He will let a remnant escape the sword. They will be scattered in the nations. These will remember how they hurt the LORD with their adulterous hearts. They will know that I am the LORD, and I will not have inflicted this disaster in vain.

__11-14_Thus says the LORD God, clap your hand, stamp your foot, because all the abominations of the LORD's house will fall by the sword, famine and plague. You will know that I am the LORD when you see the slain among their idols. Wherever they are I will stretch out My hand against them. The land will be a desolate waste.

Ezekiel 7
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1-9_Son of man, tell the land of Israel that God says, the end is coming to every corner of the land. My anger shall judge you according to your ways. I will have no pity on you. Then you will know that I am the LORD. A unique disaster is coming. Your doom has come. I will repay you according to your ways. I will do the smiting.

__10-19_Your doom is eminent. The time has come for wrath against everyone. There will be no point in going to battle for My wrath is against you. Between sword, plague and famine, destruction is sure. None will feel able to do anything. They will throw their silver and gold aside for it cannot help them either.

__20-25_They transformed My blessings into images and detestable things. I shall give it all to foreigners and I will turn My face from these people. The land is full of violence. So I will bring the worst of the nations to possess their houses and land. Though they look for peace, they will not find it.

__26-27_Disaster will follow disaster. Rumors will be rife. They will wish for a vision from a prophet but the law has been lost to the priest and elder. According to their conduct I shall deal with them. I will judge them by their own judgments. And they will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 8
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1-4_In the sixth year I sat in my house with the elders of Judah and the hand of the LORD fell upon me. I saw the likeness of a man. The top half of His body looked like glowing metal. He reached out and caught me by the hair of my head and the Spirit carried me to Jerusalem to an inner court where I saw the glory of God.

__5-9_He said, Son of Man, look up toward the north. There I saw an idol of jealousy. He said, see this idol. This abomination should be far from My sanctuary. Then He brought me to the entrance of the court where there was a hole in the wall. He said, dig through the wall. So I did and when I looked through I saw wicked abominations.

__10-13_So I entered and looked around. I saw every sort of unclean thing carved on the walls and idols were everywhere. Seventy elders stood in front of them, each with a censer in his hand a cloud of incense rising around them. They think I do not see them because I have forsaken the land. I can show you even greater abominations.

__14-16_He brought me to the entrance to the LORD's house were women sat weeping for Tammuz. He said, do you see this Son of Man? I will show you even greater abominations. He brought me to the inner court of the LORD's house. Between the porch and the altar there were about twenty five men facing the sun with their backs to the temple.

__17-18_He said, Son of Man, do you see the things they do to repeatedly provoke Me? In My wrath I will deal with them and without pity.

Ezekiel 9
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1-3_Then He cried with a loud voice, draw near, O executioners. Six men came from the direction of the upper gate carrying weapons of destruction. One of them carried a writing case. They went in and stood before the bronze altar. The glory of the LORD went up to the threshold of the temple and called to the man with the writing case.

__4-6_The LORD said, go through the city putting a mark on the forehead of any who are distressed by the abominations committed here. All the rest you are to strike without pity. Slay young and old alike but do touch any man with the mark. Start in My sanctuary. So they started with the elders who were before the temple.

__7-8_He said, defile the temple by filling it with the slain. So they went out and struck down the people in the city. As I watched it seemed as though I alone was left alive. I said, Lord, will you destroy the whole remnant of Israel as you pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem?

__9-11_He said, the iniquity of Israel and Judah is very, very great. The city is full of perversion. They think I have forsaken the land do not see. But I shall bring their conduct on their heads. Then the man with the writing case reported that he had done just as he had been commanded.

Ezekiel 10
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1-2_Then I looked at the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim and I saw something like sapphire stone that appeared to be a throne. He said to the man clothed in linen, enter between the whirling wheels under the cherubim and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim. And then scatter them over the city.

__3-6_As the man entered a cloud filled the inner court. The glory of the LORD went up and the cloud filled the temple. The court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD. The wings of the cherubim could be heard like the voice of God Almighty. The man in linen stood beside a wheel.

__7-11_Then the cherub took some of the coals and placed them in the hands of the one clothed in linen and he took them and went out. I saw four wheels, one for each cherub. The wheels gleamed like Tarshish stone. It appeared as though one wheel was within another wheel. When they moved they went in any of four directions without turning.

__12-14_Their whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings and the wheels were full of eyes. I heard them called whirling wheels. Each had four faces. The first was of a cherub. The second face was of a man. The third was the face of a lion. The fourth face was of an eagle.

__15-22_Then the four living beings rose up. As they moved the wheels stayed right beside them. Then the glory of the LORD moved from the threshold of the temple over to the cherubim and continued to hover over them as they moved. These were the same as I had seen by the river Chebar.

Ezekiel 11
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1-4_After this the Spirit took me to the east gate of the LORD's house where I saw twenty five men, some of them leaders of the people. He said to me, Son of Man, these men devise iniquity and give evil advice in this city. They say to people, this is a good time to be building houses. But you must prophecy against them.

__5-12_Then the Spirit of God fell upon me and said, tell them thus saith the LORD, you are responsible for the death of many. I shall bring judgment upon you. I shall deliver you into the hands of strangers and you will fall by the sword. Thus you will know that I am the LORD, for you have not kept My commandments.

__13-17_When I prophesied and Pelatiah died, I fell on my face and said, O LORD God, will you bring a complete end to the remnant of Israel? And the word of the LORD came to me saying, Son of Man, everyone, does not have a right to the land I gave to them. I shall gather those I have scattered and bring them back.

__18-21_When they come they will remove all the detestable things. I shall give them one heart and put a new spirit within them. I will replace their heart of stone with a heart of flesh. This way they will be able to keep My commandments and I shall be their God. But I will destroy those who go after detestable things and abominations.

__22-25_Then the cherubim went up with the wheels beside them and the glory of the LORD hovered over them before it left the city and stood over the mountain to the east of the city. The Spirit of God then brought me to the exiles in Chaldea. While there I told them all the things the LORD had shown me.

Ezekiel 12
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1-6_The LORD said to me, Son of Man, live in the midst a rebellious people who have eyes but do not see, and ears but do not hear. While they watch, prepare your baggage to go into exile. Dig a hole through the wall and take your baggage out through it. Then carry your baggage away in the dark without looking at the land.

__7-12_So I did just as the LORD had told me. The next morning the LORD said to me, when they asked you what you are doing, say to them, this is a message from God for all Israel as well as the prince. Just as I have done, so you will go into captivity and exile. Prince and common man alike will leave and no longer see the land.

__13-16_I will spread my net over him and bring him to Babylon and he will die there. Those who are taken there will be scattered to the wind. A sword shall follow them and they will know that I am the LORD. But I shall spare a few of them from the sword and the pestilence and these will know that I am the LORD.

__17-20_Again the word of the LORD came to me saying, Son of Man, eat your bread and drink you water with anxiety. So shall the inhabitants of Jerusalem eat and drink with anxiety because their land will be stripped of its fullness on account of the all the violence in the land. Everything will be laid waste. Know that I am the LORD.

__21-25_Again the word of the LORD came to me saying, Son of Man, the people have said, the days are long and every prophesy has failed. The LORD says, the day draws near when there will no longer be any unfulfilled vision within Israel. I will no longer delay in what I perform against this rebellious house.

__26-28_Once more the word of the LORD came to me saying, Son of Man, Israel thinks the fulfillment of this prophecy is many years away. Thus says the LORD. None of my words will be delayed any longer. Whatever I say I will perform.

Ezekiel 13
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1-7_Then the word of the LORD came to me saying, Son of Man, prophesy against those in Israel who speak under their own inspiration. Say, woe to the foolish prophets speaking from their own spirit. They use lying divination when they claim to give a message from the LORD. Their words will not come true.

__8-10_The LORD says, My hand will be against these false prophets. They will have no place in the council of My people, and neither will their words be recorded. They have misled My people by saying, peace, when there is no peace. They are like a person building a wall and plastering over it with whitewash.

__11-14_Tell those plastering the wall that the wall will fall. A great rain, hail and wind will come against the wall and it will fall. What then becomes of your whitewash? Thus says the LORD, I will tear down the wall which you plastered over with whitewash. The foundation will be laid bare. And you will know that I am the LORD.

__15-16_Thus I will spend My wrath on the wall and on those who plastered it over with whitewash. The wall will be gone and the plaster with it. The LORD declares that there will be no peace for those who make such prophesies.

__17-21_Thus says the LORD God, woe to the women who sew magic bands for their wrists and care only for themselves and no one else. For a little barley and a little bread you profane My name. You are willing to watch people die while the unworthy continue to live. I am against these magic bands. I am going to let you die.

__22-23_Because you have discouraged the righteous and have not encouraged the wicked to turn from his wickedness, thus preserving his life, you will no longer see false visions. I will deliver My people out of your hand you will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 14
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1-6_Then some of the elders came and sat down with me. The word of the LORD came to me, saying, Son of Man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts. Should I listen to them at all? Tell them, thus says the LORD, repent and turn from your idols and all your abominations.

__7-11_I will set my face against anyone who comes to inquire of Me without first getting rid of the abomination he has set up. I will cut off such men from among My people and preserve My people by destroying those who defile themselves. I shall be their God.

__12-20_Then the word of the LORD came to me saying, Son of Man, if a country sins against Me I stretch our My hand against it and send a famine or some kind of pestilence. Even though Noah, Daniel and Job were in their midst, their righteousness would not save the inhabitants.

__21-23_Thus says the LORD, when I send my four severe judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, wild beasts and plague, you will see some survivors of whom I approve. You will know that what I have done has not been in vain.

Ezekiel 15
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1-8_Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Son of Man, how is the wood of the vine better than the wood of a tree branch? Can you make anything from it? I have set My face against Jerusalem. I have given them to be fuel for the fire. They will be consumed because of their unfaithfulness and I will make the land desolate.

Ezekiel 16
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1-4_The word of the LORD came to me saying, Son of Man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations. Thus says the LORD, you were born in the land of Canaan. You father was an Amorite and your Mother a Hittite. On the day of your birth your naval cord was not cut and you were not washed with water, rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

__5-8_No one had compassion on you. You were thrown into an open field and abhorred on the day you were born. When I passed by and saw you squirming in your blood, and I said, you are going to live. I made you to prosper. You grew tall and were cared for. I clothed you and made a covenant with you to become mine, says the LORD God.

__9-13_I washed away the blood with water and anointed you with oil. I clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet. I wrapped you in fine linen and silk. I adorned you with ornaments and placed a crown on your head. You ate of the very best foods and you became royalty.

__14-21_You became famous for your beauty because of the splendor I bestowed on you, says the LORD God. But you came to trust your beauty and played the harlot with everyone who was willing. The fine things I gave you were then used to advance your unfaithfulness. The sons and daughters you bore to Me you sacrificed to idols.

__22-27_And now you have not remembered your youth and how I rescued you. Woe to you for you have perfected and multiplied your unfaithfulness. You have consorted with the Egyptians and made Me angry. So I am reducing your rations to get your attention. Even the daughters of the Philistines are ashamed of your conduct.

__28-34_You have also played the harlot with the Assyrians. But you are still not satisfied. Your harlotry has extended all the way to Chaldea and this has not satisfied you. Your heart languishes from your misconduct and poor choices. Usually a harlot gets money from her lovers but you pay them.

__35-42_Because of your lewdness poured out through your harlotries with your lovers, and because of the blood of your sons given to idols, I will gather your lovers against you and expose you to them for what you really are. You will be destroyed along with everything you have taken or burned. Thus My anger with you will be assuaged.

__43-45_Because you have not remembered where you came from or how I rescued you, I am bringing your conduct down on your own head, declares the LORD God. I am bringing an end to your abominations. The proverb says, like mother, like daughter. Your mother loathed her husband children and so it was with your sisters.

__46-52_Your older sister is Samaria and your younger sister Sodom. You have acted even more corruptly then them. You saw what I did to Sodom for her abominations, and you have seen what I have done to Samaria. You have multiplied your abominations even more than your sisters. Compared to you your sisters seem righteous.

__53-63_You will share their humiliation and shame. You have become a reproach to the surrounding nations. I will deal with you for breaking the covenant and you will be ashamed of what you have done. Nevertheless, I will remember the covenant I made with you in your youth and I will once again establish an everlasting covenant with you.

Ezekiel 17
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1-6_Then the word of the LORD came to me saying, Son of Man, present a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel. Thus says the LORD God, a great eagle came to Lebanon and took away the top most twigs of the cedar and brought it to the land of merchants. He planted it beside the water and it became a vine with branches.

__7-10_The vine was planted in well watered good soil. It appeared that it would be very fruitful. Thus says the LORD God, will it thrive? Will he not pull it up by the roots to never grow again? What will be the future of this vine?

__11-15_Again the word of the LORD came to me saying, say to the rebellious house, don't you understand? See how the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took its king and princes and brought them to Babylon. He made a covenant that he expected them to keep. But they rebelled by sending an envoy to Egypt hoping for military backing.

__16-21_As I live, says the LORD God, the one who has broken this covenant shall die. Pharaoh and his mighty army will not help him in this war. Thus says the LORD, because of his unfaithful act toward Me, I have brought him to Babylon and there he shall be judged. The best will fall by the sword. I the LORD have spoken.

__22-24_Thus says the LORD, I shall take a sprig from the top of the lofty cedar and plant it on a high mountain. My intention is for it to grow and bear fruit. Birds of every kind will nest in its shade. And all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring down and I exalt as I see fit. I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 18
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1-9_Then the word of the LORD came to me saying, what do mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel saying, the fathers eat the sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge? You shall no longer use this proverb in Israel. Only the soul that sins will die. The man who practices righteousness shall live.

__10-20_If a righteous man has a son who does wrong and deserves death, the son will die and his father will live. If a son observes all his father's sins but does not do them himself, he will not die because of his father's iniquity. Only the person who sins will die for his iniquity.

__21-29_If the wicked man turns from his evil ways and practices justice and righteousness, he shall surely live. His transgressions will not be remembered. I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Let him turn from his ways and live. And when the righteous man turns from his righteousness, he will die.

__30-32_Therefore, I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his conduct. Repent and turn from your transgression. Make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit, for why will you die? I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Repent and live.

Ezekiel 19
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1-5_Take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel. Say, your mother was a lioness. One of her cubs became a lion and learned to tear his prey. The nations heard of him and captured him in their pit. They brought him with hooks to Egypt. She saw no hope for this cub so she took another cub and made him a young lion.

__6-9_He learned to tear his prey. He devoured men. He destroyed their fortified towers and laid waste their cities. The land was appalled at the sound of his roaring. The nations spread a net over him and captured him. With hooks they brought him to Babylon.

__10-14_Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard having been planted by the waters. She was very fruitful. This vine grew higher than the clouds, but was plucked up in fury and cast to the ground. It withered in the east wind and then fire consumed it. Now it is planted in the wilderness in a dry and thirsty land. The fire has gone out.

Ezekiel 20
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1-4_In the seventh year and the fifth month some of the elders were sitting before me to inquire of the LORD. The word of the LORD came to me saying, Son of Man, speak to the elders of Israel. You are coming to inquire of Me but I will not be inquired of. Son of Man, make know to them the abominations of their fathers.

__5-7_Thus says the LORD, on the day I chose Israel I made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore to be their God and bring them out of Egypt into a land flowing with milk and honey. I said to them, cast away the detestable things from you. Do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

__8-11_But they rebelled against Me and would not listen. They did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath on them. I acted for the sake of My name that it should not be profaned before the surrounding nations. I took them out of Egypt and gave them My statutes and ordinances which are a help to man.

__12-14_I also gave them My Sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them. But the house of Israel rebelled against Me. They ignored My statutes and ordinances and profaning My Sabbaths. I decided to annihilate them in the wilderness. I did this for the sake of My name.

__15-18_I swore to them that I would not bring them into the land of milk and honey, the best of all lands. Then I changed My mind and did not destroy them in the wilderness. I said to their children, do not follow the ways of your fathers or defile yourselves with their idols.

__19-21_I am the LORD. Walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances. Sanctify My Sabbaths that they shall be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God. But the children rebelled against Me. They did none of the things I asked them to do, things to help them live. So I decided to pour out My wrath on them.

__22-26_I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations because they rejected My statutes, profaned My Sabbaths and reverenced the idols of their fathers. I pronounced them unclean when they made their firstborn to pass through the fire.

__27-31_Speak to the house of Israel and say, the LORD says, your fathers acted treacherously blaspheming My name. They looked at every high hill as a place to offer sacrifices to their pagan gods. Will you continue to do as your fathers did? O house of Israel, as long as you continue in your sins, I will not be inquired of by you.

__32-36_Whatever you imagine will happen as you serve wood and stone like the other nations will not come to pass. I will pour out my wrath on you and scatter you among the nations. As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the LORD God.

__37-40_I will make you pass under the rod. Those who have rebelled shall not again enter the land of Israel. Go serve your idols until you are ready to listen to Me. On My holy mountain in Israel the whole house of Israel will serve Me. There I will seek your contributions and the choicest of your gifts.

__41-44_I will gather you from the lands where you were scattered. You will know that I am Lord when I bring you into the land of Israel which I swore to give to your forefathers. You shall loathe yourselves for the evil things you did. There you will know that I am the LORD and I have dealt with you for My name's sake.

__45-49_Now the word of the LORD came to me saying, Son of Man, speak against the south and the forest land of the Negev. Say, God says, Behold, I am about to kindle a fire against you to consume every green and dry tree. It shall not be quenched. Then I said, ah LORD God, they are asking me if I am just speaking in parables?

Ezekiel 21
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1-4_And the word of the LORD came to me saying, Son of Man, set your face toward Jerusalem, speak against the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel. Say to them, thus says the LORD, Behold I am against you. I shall draw My sword out of its sheath and cut you off, all flesh from south to north.

__5-13_Thus all flesh will know that I, the LORD, have done this to you. As for you, Son of Man, groan with a breaking heart and bitter grief as they watch. When they ask why you are groaning tell them it is because of what is coming to them. The word of the LORD came to me again saying cry and wail for the sharp sword that is coming.

__14-27_Son of man, prophesy and clap your hands to get their attention. Make a signpost to show the king of Babylon the way into the city. Impress the people that this is surely going to happen. The king of Babylon will use divination to decide how to attack. Yet, he will prevail over you because of your sins against Me.

__28-32_And you, Son of Man, prophesy, thus says the LORD God, I will also judge Ammon pouring out My indignation on them. You will be no more. Neither will you be remembered.

Ezekiel 22
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1-7_The LORD said to me, Son of Man, remind the people of all their abominations. Tell them the LORD says, you have shed blood and have been defiled by idols. I have made you a reproach to the nations. Everyone mocks you. You have treated father and mother without respect, and have oppressed the alien, the fatherless and the widow.

__8-10_You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths. Slanderous men among you have shed blood, eaten at mountain shrines and committed acts of lewdness. Some have uncovered their father's nakedness and approached her who was unclean in her monthly cycle.

__11-12_Some have committed abomination with his neighbor's wife and another with his daughter-in-law. Yet another has humbled his own sister. Some have taken bribes to shed blood. Others have taken interest and oppressed their neighbors. And you have forgotten Me, declares the LORD.

__13-18_I will smite you for your dishonest gain and scatter you among the nations. I shall consume your uncleanness from you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

The word of the LORD came to me, saying, Son of Man, tell the house of Israel they have become dross to Me. They are what is thrown away when metals are purified.

__19-26_Therefore, says the LORD, I am going to put you in the furnace and melt you. Your prophets have used their position to make widows, and the priests have done violence to My law. They have profaned My holy things. They have not taught the difference between the clean and unclean. And they hide their eyes from My Sabbaths.

__27-31_The princes are like wolves that tear their prey and destroying for dishonest gain. The people of the land practice oppression, commit robbery, wrong the poor and oppress the sojourner without justice. I looked for a good man so I would not destroy the land. I found no one. In My wrath I have brought their ways on their own heads.

Ezekiel 23
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1-4_Then the word of the LORD came to me once more, saying, Son of Man, there were two sisters. They played the harlot in Egypt and lived loosely. The oldest was named Oholah and her younger sister was named Oholibah. They became Mine and bore Me sons and daughters. Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah.

__5-10_Oholah played the harlot while she belonged to Me. She lusted after Assyria and her officials. She defiled herself by bestowing her favors on them. Ever since she was in Egypt she has defiled herself. So I gave her over to her lovers. They used her as they saw fit and then killed her. Thus she became a byword among women.

__11-21_Her sister Oholibah saw all that happened to Oholah and yet she was even more corrupt. She lusted after Assyria defiling herself with them. Then she increased her harlotries with the Chaldeans and afterwards became disgusted with them. Even the Egyptians were a part of her lewdness.

__22-28_Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the LORD God, I will arouse your lovers against you, both Chaladea and Assyria. They will attack you from every side. They will remove your beauty and take your sons and daughters. They will strip you of everything you value and I will give you into the hand of those you hate.

__29-35_Because you have defiled yourself with idols you will be stripped of everything and your lewdness will be uncovered. You have walked in the way your sister walked. Therefore, I will give you her cup to drink. It is a cup of horror and desolation. Because you have forgotten Me you are to bear the punishment of your lewdness.

__36-39_Son of man, declare to Oholah and Oholibah their abominations. They committed adultery with their idols and caused their sons whom they bore to Me to pass through the fire. They have defiled My sanctuaries and profaned My Sabbaths. They have slaughtered their children to their idols and entered My sanctuary on the same day.

__40-45_They have invited those from far away to come to them. They painted their eyes and adorned themselves for them and provided a splendid couch and music, and then committed adultery with them. They have been lewd women. Righteous men will judge them for what they are. Judgment will come because of the blood on their hands.

__46-49_The LORD says, they will be given over to terror and plunder. They will be stoned and cut with swords. Their sons and daughters will be slain and their houses will be burned with fire. I will cause lewdness to cease from the land. You will bear the penalty for worshiping idols. Thus you will know that I am the LORD God.

Ezekiel 24
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1-3_The word of the Lord came to Me in the ninth year and the tenth month, saying, son of man, the king of Babylon has laid siege on Jerusalem on this very day. Speak a parable to the rebellious house. Here is what you shall say to them. Thus says the Lord God, put on the pot and pour water in it.

__4-5_Put in the various pieces of good meat and some choice bones. Use the choicest of the flock and pile wood under the pot. Boil it vigorously so that the bones rise and fall in the liquid.

__6-11_Therefore, thus says the Lord God, woe to the bloody city, to the pot in which there is rust. Take each piece out of the pot without making a choice. Woe to the bloody city. I will pile fire around the pot and burn it inside and out. The bronze pot will glow and the filthiness will be melted and the rust consumed.

__12-14_She has wearied Me with toil. I would have cleansed you from your filthiness but you are not clean. I will spend My wrath on you. I the Lord have spoken. It is coming. I shall act and not relent. I will be without pity. I will judge you according to your deeds, declares the Lord God.

__15-19_And the word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man, I am about to take from you the desire of your eyes but you are not to mourn or weep. Mourn quietly and do not eat the foods supplied for a funeral. That evening my wife died. The following day I did as commanded. The people said to me, tell us the meaning of your actions.

__20-22_Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Tell the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, that which has been everyone's delight. When it happens you will do as Ezekiel has done. You will not mourn or eat the foods provided for a funeral.

__23-27_Neither mourn nor weep. Let Ezekiel be a sign to you. He will help you to understand that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 25
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1-4_And the word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man, set your face towards the sons of Ammon and prophesy against them. Say, the Lord God says, because you have been so happy to see Judah's demise, I am going to give you to the sons of the east as a possession. They will take the best of what is yours.

__5-7_I am going to make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the sons of Ammon a resting place for flocks. This way you will know that I am the Lord. Because you have rejoiced over Israel's troubles I have stretched out My hand against you. I will destroy you giving you as spoil to the nations. This way you will know that I am the Lord.

__8-11_Thus says the Lord, because Moab and Seir see Judah as no different than other nations, I will deprive it of its cities. It will not be remembered among the nations. In this way I will execute judgment on Moab and they will know that I am the Lord.

__12-17_And because Edom has acted against Judah I will stretch my hand against them and cut them off, man and beast. They will know My vengeance, says the Lord.

And because the Philistines have acted with vengeance I will cut them off and execute great vengeance on them so that they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 26
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1-6_In first month of the eleventh year the word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man, because Tyre has been so happy to see Jerusalem's demise, she too shall be laid waste. I will bring many nations against her. They will break down her towers and make her a bare rock. They will know that I am the Lord.

__7-21_Thus says the Lord, I will bring Nebuchadnezzar from the north against Tyre. He will slay you with the sword and completely destroy you. I will make you as a bare rock you will be a place for the spreading of nets. I will make you a desolate city and you will never be built again, for I the Lord have spoken.

Ezekiel 27
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1-5_Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me saying, take up a lamentation over Tyre. They dwell at the entrance to the sea. They buy and sell to many people of the coast lands. O Tyre, you have said, I am perfect in beauty. You make beautiful boats from fir and cedars of Lebanon.

__6-11_Your oars you made from oak and you have inlaid ivory in your decks. Your sails are fine linen from Egypt. Your awnings are purple. You have wise men for pilots.

Persia, Lud and Put were in your army. They were protected with shield and helmet. The sons of Arvad were with your army on your walls.

__12-18_Tarshish was your customer trading silver, iron, tin, and lead. You traded for war horses and mules. You brought ivory tusks, and ebony. You dealt in emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral and rubies. You traded with Judah for wheat, cakes, honey, oil, and balm. Damascus traded fine wines and white wool.

__19-36_You traded all kinds of other wares with others. You were renowned for your wealth and wares. All the coastlands will be appalled at you. And you will be no more.

Ezekiel 28
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1-5_Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, thus says the Lord God, your heart is lifted up and you have said that you are a God. Behold you are wiser than Daniel. You have used your wisdom and understanding to acquire riches. Your heart is lifted up because of this.

__6-10_The Lord God says that because you have made your heart like the heart of God, strangers will defile your splendor. You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers. I the Lord have spoken.

__11-13_Again the word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre. Thus says the Lord God, you had the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering. They were prepared on the day you were created.

__14-16_You were the anointed cherub who covers. I placed you on the holy mountain of God and you walked through the stones of fire. You were blameless from the day you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you. Violence then filled you and you sinned to the extent of your abilities. Then I cast you from the mountain of God.

__17-19_Your beauty caused your heart to be lifted up. Your splendor corrupted you. I cast you to the ground. You have profaned your sanctuaries by your many iniquities. Therefore I have brought fire from your midst. And I have turned you to ashes on the earth for everyone to see. You will be no more.

__20-24_And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against her. Thus says the Lord, I am against you, O Sidon. I will glorify Myself when I send judgments in her. I shall send pestilence and the sword from every side. Sidon will no longer be a painful thorn to Israel.

__25-26_Thus says the Lord God, I will gather the house of Israel from wherever they have been scattered. I will manifest My holiness in them for the nations to see. They will live in their land which I gave to My servant Jacob, living securely, building houses and planting vineyards. I will execute judgment on surrounding nations.

Ezekiel 29
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1-5_On the twelfth month of the tenth year the word of the Lord came to me, saying, prophesy against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, saying, thus says the Lord, the Nile is Mine. I made it. I shall put hooks in your jaws. I shall abandon you in the wilderness. You shall be food for the beasts of the earth and the birds of the sky.

__6-12_All Egypt will know that I am the Lord. I shall cause it to become a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord. Because you said, the Nile is mine and I made it, I will show everyone that you are powerless. Egypt will be desolate for forty years. I shall scatter the Egyptians among the nations.

__13-16_Thus says the Lord, at the end of the forty years I shall gather the Egyptians from wherever they are scattered. I shall turn their fortunes and bring them back to their land. There they will be a lowly kingdom. They shall never again rule over other nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.

__17-21_Now in the twenty seventh year in the first month the word of the Lord came to me. Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon labored without reward against Tyre. Therefore I will give Egypt to him and he will carry off her wealth as wages for his army. So they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 30
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1-12_Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man, prophesy saying that the day of the Lord is near. A sword will come upon Egypt and her and take away her wealth. Indeed, those who support Egypt will fall. They will know that I am the Lord when I set fire to Egypt. I will bring Nebuchadnezzar to destroy the land.

__13-19_Thus says the Lord God, I will also destroy the idols. There will be no prince in Egypt. I will execute judgment on Pathros, Zoan, Thebes, Sin, Memphis, On, Pibeseth, and Tahpanhes. Thus I will execute judgment on Egypt and they will know that I am the Lord.

__20-26_In the eleventh year in the first month the word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his other arm as well. I will strengthen Babylon as I scatter the Egyptians among the nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 31
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1-14_In the third month of the eleventh year the Lord said, son of man, say to Pharaoh and all of Egypt, so you think you are great? Look at Assyria. It was like a cedar in Lebanon. It flourished. I made it great and all the nations were jealous. But its heart became haughty. I will cause it to be ruined.

__15-18_Thus says the Lord, on the day that it went down to Sheol I caused Lamentations. I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall. Its strong men were slain. Pharaoh and his entire multitude shall be like Assyria, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 32
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1-3_In the twelfth month of the twelfth year the Lord said to me, son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt. Say to him, you compare yourself to a young lion of the nations, yet you are like the monster of the seas. You muddy the waters with your feet and foul the rivers.

__4-10_Thus says the Lord, I shall catch you in My net. I will bring an end to you and throw you in the open field for the birds and the beasts to devour. I will set darkness on your land. Many people will be troubled at the sight of your destruction and be appalled on the day of your fall.

__11-16_Thus says the Lord, the king of Babylon shall come upon you. His mighty ones shall cause your multitude to fall. I will cause a multitude to be destroyed along with your cattle. Your waters shall be muddied. The land of Egypt will be a desolation. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

__17-23_It came about that same year that the Lord spoke to me saying, son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt. You had surpassing beauty and you were powerful. You will be brought down to Sheol. Assyria is there, too. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror among the living.

__24-29_Elam is also there because they caused terror among the living. Meshech, Tubal and their entire multitude are there, though they instilled their terror in the land of the living. They are being punished for their iniquity. And Edom, its kings and princes, for all their might are slain and in the grave.

__30-32_All the chiefs of the north and the Sidonians, in spite of their might, are slain. These Pharaoh will see and may not feel so bad having witnessed the demise of the surrounding nations. He will be made to lie down among the slain of those nations. He and his multitude will be slain by the sword, declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 33
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1-9_The word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man, speak to the sons of your people. If people are warned of what is coming and do not pay attention, their blood is on their own heads. Now, Son of man, I have appointed you the watchman. You are to warn them. If they will not listen, they will die in their own iniquity.

__10-12_Son of man, say, surely our transgressions are upon us and we are rotting away. As I live, says the Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked. I want him to turn and live. Why will you die? Son of man, tell the people that their righteousness will not deliver them in the day when they commit sin.

__13-16_No matter how righteous he has been, when he commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered. When I tell the wicked that he shall surely die, and he turns and practices justice and righteousness, and rights the wrongs he has done, he shall surely live.

__17-22_Some of your people say this is not fair. O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.

It came about in the tenth month of the twelfth year of our exile that I was told that Jerusalem had been taken. Then the hand of the Lord was upon me and I was able to speak.

__23-29_The word of the Lord came to me, saying, tell the people of Israel, you think that because I gave the land to Abraham that you have a right to it. But you eat meat with the blood. You worship idols and defile your neighbor's wife. I shall make the land desolate and you will know that I am the Lord.

__30-33_But as for you, son of man, hear the message I have for those who talk about you. They listen to your words but do not follow them. They say they like your words, but they do not practice them. So when your words come to pass, as they surely will, then they will know that a prophet has been among them.

Ezekiel 34
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1-6_Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Woe to you for feeding yourselves instead of the flock. You take all the advantages and yet you do not care for the flock. Rather than healing them you dominate them with severity. My flock is scattered in the mountains.

__7-19_Therefore, because My flock has not been cared for, I am against the shepherds. I will remove my flock from them so that they are no longer food for the shepherds. I will search for my sheep, seeking them out. I will deliver them from their calamities, feed them on good pasture and lead them to rest.

__20-26_I will judge between the sheep and set my servant David as shepherd over the flock. I the Lord will be their God and My servant David will be prince among them. I the Lord have spoken. I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate the beasts of prey from the land. I will cause showers of blessings on the land.

__27-31_The tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth its increase. They will no longer be prey to the nations. They will never again be victims of famine nor endure the insults of the nations. They will know that I am the Lord their God and the house of Israel is My people. I have used sheep as an example of your condition.

Ezekiel 35
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1-15_The word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, that is Edom. Say to them, I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolation. Then you will know that I am the Lord. You caused much trouble for Israel and Judah. You wanted what they had, forgetting that I gave it to them.

Ezekiel 36
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1-10_And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, saying, hear the word of the Lord. For a good cause you have been made desolate. Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against Edom who appropriated My land. Israel will again cultivate the land. The cities will be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt.

__11-21_I will multiply man and beast in the land. It will once again be fruitful, even better than before. Son of man, when Israel was living in their own land they defiled it. So I poured out My wrath on them and for the sake of their idols I judged them. I had concern for My holy name which the house of Israel profaned even in exile.

__22-26_O Israel, when I act in your behalf, I am not doing it for you but for My holy name. I will vindicate My great name which you have profaned. I will bring you back from all the nations into your own land. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and idols. I will remove the heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh.

__27-32_I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes. You will be My people and I will be your God. I will multiply your grain and the fruit of the trees. You will remember your evil deeds and loathe all your abominations. And remember, I am not doing this for your sake. Be ashamed of your previous ways.

__33-36_On the day that I cleanse you from your iniquities I will cause your cities to be inhabited and waste places rebuilt. People will remark how the land has become like the garden of Eden. Then the nations around you will know that I am the Lord and that I have rebuilt the ruined places. I the Lord have spoken and will do it.

__37-38_The house of Israel may ask of Me and I will increase their men like a flock. They will be multiplied like a flock at her appointed feasts. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 37
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1-4_The hand of the Lord brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in a valley of dry bones. There were many bones and they were very dry. He said to me, son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, You know the answer. Then He said to me, son of man, prophesy to these bones.

__5-8_Thus says the Lord, I will cause breath to come into you. I will cause sinews and flesh to grow back on you and cover you with skin. You will come alive and know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied and as I did this, there was a sound of rattling as the bones came together in the correct order. But there was no breath in them.

__9-11_Then He said, prophesy to the breath. Thus says the Lord, come from the four winds, O breath, breath on these slain that they may live. I prophesied and the breath came into them and they came to life and stood up. They were an exceedingly great army. He said, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They feel cut off.

__12-14_Therefore tell them, thus says the Lord, Behold, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves. I will bring you to Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord. And I will put My Spirit within you. You will come to life and live in your own land. Then you will know that I am the Lord and I have done this.

__15-22_The word of the Lord came to me again saying, take a stick and write on it, for Judah and Israel. Take another stick and write on it, for Joseph, Ephraim and all the house of Israel. Join them into one stick. Tell them the Lord says, I will make the two of them one nation. They will no longer be two kingdoms.

__23-24_And they will no longer defile themselves with their idols. I will deliver them from all the ways in which they have sinned. I will cleanse them and they will be My people and I will be their God. My servant David will be king over them and they will all have one shepherd. They will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes.

__25-27_They shall live in the land I gave to Jacob and David My servant shall be their prince forever. I will make an everlasting covenant of peace with them. I will multiply them and set My sanctuary in their midst forever. My dwelling place shall be with them. I will be their God and they shall be My people.

__28_And the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel when they see My sanctuary in their midst forever.

Ezekiel 38
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1-8_The word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man, set your face toward Gog and Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him. Say, thus says the Lord, I am against you. I will take you and your splendid army captive. In the latter years you will be summoned along with many nations to Israel.

__9-13_You and your troops as well as many other people will go up like a storm and cover the land. In that day you will make evil plans to go up against a land with unwalled villages. Sheba and Dedan and Tarshish will say, have you come to capture much spoil and to carry away silver and gold and carry away cattle?

__14-17_Prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, the Lord says, on that day when My people Israel are living securely you will come from your place out the remote parts of the earth with your mighty army. I will bring you against My land in order that the nations may know Me. In former days My prophets prophesied against you.

__18-23_In that day when Gog comes against the land of Israel My fury will mount up. There will be a great earthquake in Israel. Everyone and everything will shake at My presence. Every man's sword will be against his brother. I will enter into judgment with each one with hail, fire and brimstone. Thus I will magnify Myself.

Ezekiel 39
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1-4_Son Of man, prophesy against Gog. Say, the Lord says, I am against you, O Gog. I am going to bring you from the remotest parts of the earth and bring you against the mountains of Israel. I will strike your weapons from your hand and you shall fall on the mountains of Israel. You shall become food for every scavenger.

__5-10_You will fall, declares the Lord God. I shall send fire on Magog and those who inhabit the coastlands in safety. They will know that I am the Lord. I will not let My holy name be profaned any more. Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will go out and make fires and burn up the weapons and seize their plunder.

__11-21_In that day I will give Gog a burial in Israel. It will be called Hamon-Gog. Israel will bury the dead for seven months and the land will be cleansed. As for you, O son of man, speak to every kind of bird and beast of the field to eat the flesh of their mighty men. All the nations shall see My judgment against them.

__22-25_The house of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward. The nations will know that I have no longer hid My face from them which I did to deal with their uncleanness. I shall restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the house of Israel. I have been jealous for My holy name.

__26-29_They shall forget their disgrace and dwell securely in their own land. No one will make them afraid. They will know that I am the Lord because I sent them into exile and I have brought them back. I will no longer hide My face from them. I plan to pour My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord God.

Ezekiel 40
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1-3_At the beginning of the twenty fifth year of our exile and the fourteenth year after Jerusalem was taken, the Lord brought me there in vision and set me on a high mountain south of the city. A man with the appearance of bronze stood in the gateway holding a flax line and a measuring rod.

__4-5_He said to me, son of man, use your eyes and ears to take in everything I will show you. You are to tell the house of Israel what you see.

There was a wall around the outside of the temple. The measuring rod was twelve feet long, or twice the height of a man. The wall was one rod thick and one rod high.

__6-16_He went up to the east gate and measured its threshold. It was one rod wide. So was the other gate. The guard room was one rod long and one rod wide. There was almost six feet between guardrooms. There were three guardrooms on the east side. All were of the same measurements. The gate's side pillars were ninety feet high.

__17-37_The outer court had thirty chambers. The inner court was one hundred and fifty feet square. The outer court had three guardrooms on each side. Its length was seventy five feet by thirty seven and a half feet. It was the same for the east, north, south and west sides.

__38-45_Near the side pillars the burnt offerings were rinsed. Two tables were on each side where the slaughtering took place for the burnt offerings as well as the sin and guilt offerings. From the outside to the inner gate there were chambers for the singers. Then he showed me chambers for the priests in charge of the temple.

__46-49_Chambers facing north were for the priests in charge of the altar. The court was a perfect square, one hundred and fifty feet long and the same in width. Each pillar on the porch was seven and one half feet tall and four and one half feet in width. The porch was thirty feet long and sixteen and one half feet wide.

Ezekiel 41
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1-3_He measured the side pillars of the nave. Each one was nine feet wide and the width of the entrance was fifteen feet. The length of the nave was sixty feet by thirty feet wide. He went inside and measured each side pillar of the doorway which was three feet wide. The doorway was nine feet high and ten and one half feet wide.

__4-6_He measured the length and width of the most holy place. It was thirty feet long and thirty feet wide. The wall of the temple was nine feet and the width of the side chambers was six feet square. These were set all around the house on every side. The side chambers were in three stories with thirty chambers in each story.

__7-11_The width of the temple increased with each successive story. The foundation of the side chambers was a raised platform nine feet high. The side chambers' outer walls were seven and one half feet thick. The outer chambers were thirty cubits wide around the temple on every side with a door to south and the north.

__12-14_There was a building in front on the west side. It was one hundred and five feet wide and one hundred and twenty feet long. It had a wall seven and one half feet thick. He measured the temple and the separate area. Both were a hundred and fifty feet long. The width of the front of the temple and the separate area were the same.

__15-21_The thresholds, the latticed windows and the galleries around the three stories were paneled with wood. There were carved cherubim and palm trees. Each cherub was carved with two faces. One was the face of a man and the other of a lion. The door posts of the nave were square.

__22-26_The altar was of wood, four and one half feet high and three feet long. He said, this is the table that is before the Lord. The nave and the sanctuary each had a double door of two swinging leaves. Cherubim and palm trees were carved on them as well. Palm trees were carved on each side of the latticed windows.

Ezekiel 42
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1-9_Then he brought me to the outer court on the north. Its length was one hundred and fifty feet and its width seventy five feet. There was a door on the north side of the outer court. It was thirty feet wide. There was an inner walk fifteen feet wide its full length. Chambers were in all three stories along its length.

__10-20_There were chambers in the wall on the east. The chambers on the north and the south were where the priests would eat the most holy things. When the priest come and go they are to change garments.

He then measured all around the temple complex. It was five hundred reeds on each side which divide between the holy and profane.

Ezekiel 43
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1-5_Then I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters and the earth shown with His glory. It was like another vision where I saw Him as he came to destroy the city. The Spirit of the Lord brought me to the inner court where the glory of the Lord filled the house.

__6-9_A man stood beside me while I heard someone speaking to me. He said to me, son of man, this is where My throne is and where I place My feet. I will dwell here among the sons of Israel forever. Israel will not again defile My holy name with their abominations. Let them put away their harlotry and I will dwell among them.

__10-12_As for you, son of man, describe to Israel the temple I have shown you. Let them carefully consider all its measurements and the design of everything I have shown you. They are to follow the design carefully. They are to think of the plan as exactly how I want it built.

__13-17_He gave measurements for the altar. Its base shall be almost two feet square. It is to have a boarder of a hand's span around its top. Its base is to be almost four feet high. There is to be a horn on each of its four corners. It shall be on a raise platform with steps leading up to it.

__18-21_And He said to me, son of man, thus says the Lord God, these are the statutes for the use of the altar of burn offering. The priests are to sacrifice a young bull for a sin offering and put some of its blood on the four horns and on its border. Thus it shall be cleansed. The bull is to be burned as a sin offering.

__22-23_The next day the priests are to offer a male goat without blemish as a sin offering. They are to cleanse the altar the same way they did with the young bull on the previous day. When they have finished cleansing it they are to present a young bull and a ram from the flock. Both are to be without blemish.

__24-26_They are to be presented to the Lord and the priests are to throw salt on them and offer them as burnt offerings to the Lord. For seven days they are to present a goat, a young bull and a ram from the flock, all without blemish. They are to make atonement for the altar for seven days in order to consecrate it.

__27_When the seven days are completed the priests may use the altar to offer burn offerings and peace offerings. These will then be accepted by the Lord God.

Ezekiel 44
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1-3_Then He brought me back to the outer east gate of the sanctuary which was shut. The Lord said, this gate shall remain shut because the Lord God of Israel entered the temple by it. As for the prince, he shall enter by it and eat bread before the Lord and go out the same gate.

__4-5_Then he brought me through the north gate to the front of the house. When I saw that the glory of the Lord filled the house I fell on my face. The Lord said to me, son of man, take note with your eyes and ears everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the house of the Lord.

__6-7_You shall tell those who are rebellious that the Lord says, enough of all your abominations, O house of Israel. When you brought in foreigners who were uncircumsized in heart and in flesh to be in My sanctuary they profaned it, just as you did when you offered My food, the blood and the fat.

__8-10_You have set foreigners to be in charge of My holy things instead of doing it yourself. Thus says the Lord, no foreigner who is uncircumcised in his heart of his flesh shall enter my sanctuary, no matter how long he has been among the sons of Israel. And there were Levites who strayed far from Me with their idols.

__11-14_Yet they shall minister to Me in My sanctuary, keeping the gates and helping the people by slaughtering the sacrifices. When and if they become a stumbling block to the people they shall bear the punishment for their iniquity. Then they shall not be allowed to serve as a priest to Me. Yet I will give them work to do.

__15-18_Those Levitical priests who were in charge of My sanctuary and let Me down will be serving Me. They are to offer to me the fat and the blood. They shall follow the rules I have laid down. They shall wear linen garments and no wool while they minister in the inner court. They shall not to wear anything that makes them sweat.

__19-22_When they go to the outer court to the people they are to take off the garments they ministered in and put on other garments. They are to trim the hair of their heads, neither shaving it off or letting it grow long. None of the priests are to drink wine when they are in the inner court. They are to marry only Israelite virgins.

__23-24_They are to teach the people the difference between the holy and the profane. When they are called to judge a case they shall judge according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and statutes and all My appointed feasts. They are to sanctify My Sabbaths.

__25-27_They are not to defile themselves with the dead except their next of kin. After touching a dead family member they shall be cleansed after seven days. After he is cleansed he shall offer a sin offering to complete his cleansing.

__28-30_The Levite is to have no inheritance in Israel for I am his inheritance. They shall eat the grain offering, the sin and the guilt offerings. Every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. The First Fruits and the contribution of every kind shall be for the priests. Even the first of your dough you shall give to the priest.

__31_And the priests shall not eat anything that has died a natural death or been torn in pieces.

Ezekiel 45
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1-2_And when you divide up the land by lot for inheritance you shall offer an allotment to the Lord that is a holy portion. It shall be seven and one tenth miles long and two and eight tenths miles wide. Everything within its boundaries shall be holy. Within this shall be a seven hundred and fifty foot square for an open space.

__3-5_From this place you shall measure for the sanctuary the large space as previously described. This is to be a holy portion of the land for the sanctuary and the priests and ministers of it. There is also to be an equally large area for the Levites as their possession.

__6-7_You shall make the dimensions of their city one and four tenths miles wide by seven and one tenth miles long. This allotment is to be along side the holy portion set aside for the sanctuary. The prince shall have the land on either side of the aforementioned allotments.

__8-11_The princes will have their portion and shall not oppress My people. The rest of the land belongs to the house of Israel according to their tribes. Enough of violence says the Lord to the princes. Stop your extortion. You shall have just balances and just measures. The ephah and the bath shall be a tenth of a homer.

__12-14_The shekel shall contain twenty gerahs. Fifteen, twenty and twenty five shekels shall be your maneh.

This is the offering you shall make: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley. The prescribed portion of oil will be a tenth of a bath for each kor. Ten baths make a homer.

__15-17_One sheep from each flock of two hundred is to be offered. These offerings are for grain, burnt, and peace offerings to make atonement for them, declares the Lord God. All the people of the land shall give this offering to the prince of Israel. From these the prince will provide the offerings at the feast Sabbaths in Israel.

__18-20_The Lord God says, at the first of the first month you shall take a young bull without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary. The priest shall put some of its blood on the door posts of the house of God, on the four corners of the altar and on the posts of the gate of the inner court. This way you shall make atonement for everyone.

__21-25_On the fourteenth day of the first month you shall begin the seven days of Passover when only unleavened bread is eaten. The prince shall provide the bull for the sin offering along with a ram and a goat each day for a sin offering. He shall provide an ephah of grain and a hin of oil with the bull and also with the ram.

Ezekiel 46
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1-2_Thus says the Lord God, the east gate of the inner court shall be shut during the six working days and opened on the Sabbath day and the day of the new moon. The prince shall enter by the porch and stand by the post of the gate while the priests offer his burnt offering and peace offerings. He shall worship at the doorway.

__3-5_The people shall also worship at the doorway of the gate. The burnt offering the prince shall offer the Lord on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs and a ram, all without blemish. Also an ephah of grain is to be offered with the ram and grain offerings with the lambs such as he is able to give, along with a hin of oil.

__6-10_On the day of the new moon he shall offer the same offerings. As on Sabbath days, the prince is to enter by the porch and leave the same way. But when the people come to worship they are to come in by the north gate and leave by the south gate. The prince and people shall go in and out together.

__11-12_At the festivals and appointed feasts these animal offerings and their accompanying grains offerings are to be observed.

When the prince provides a freewill offering to the Lord, the east gate shall be opened for him. When he goes out the gate shall be shut again.

__13-14_You are to provide a year old lamb without blemish for a daily burnt offering to the Lord every morning. At the same time you are to provide an ephah of grain as an offering and a third of a hin of oil to moistened the fine flour. This grain offering is a perpetual offering to the Lord.

__15-17_A lamb, grain and oil offering are to be offered every morning for a continual offering.

The Lord says, if the prince gives a gift out of his inheritance to any of his sons, it becomes part of the son's inheritance. But if he gives to a servant, it comes back to him at the year of liberty. His inheritance is for his sons.

__18-20_The prince shall not take from the people's inheritance.

Then he brought me to a place in the very back of the holy chambers for the priests, chambers facing north. He said, this is where the priests are to boil the guilt and sin offering and bake the grain offering before taking it out to transmit holiness to the people.

__21-24_Next he brought me out to the court and each of its corners which had a small court. Each was sixty feet by forty five feet. These were places where the ministers were to boil the sacrifices of the people.

Ezekiel 47
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1-2_After this he brought me to the door of the house where I saw water flowing from under the threshold toward the east. It flowed from the right side of the house south of the altar. He took me out through the north gate of the house and then to the outer gate facing east. I could see water trickling from the south side.

__3-5_The man went toward the east with a line measuring fifteen hundred feet. He led me through the water that was ankle deep. He measured another fifteen hundred feet and the water reached my knees. Yet another fifteen hundred feet and the water reached my loins. Another fifteen hundred feet and the river was too deep to walk in.

__6-9_He said, son of man, have you taken notice of this? Then we returned to the bank of the river. It now had a great many trees on both sides. He said, these waters go all the way through Arabah to the sea to make it fresh. It will come to pass that every living creature where the river goes will live and thrive.

__10-12_There will be a great many fish like in the Great Sea. But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh. Next to the river all kinds of trees will grow to provide food. The leaves will not wither or the fruit fail. They will bear fruit every month because of the water that flows from the sanctuary. Their leaves are for healing.

__13-20_The Lord says this river shall be a boundary by which the land is divided for an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions. You shall divide it equally among the tribes. The boundaries of the land are here specified according to the names of the various areas.

__21-23_You shall divide the land among the various tribes of Israel by lot and include the aliens in your midst. Their sons shall be considered as native born along with the sons of Israel. They shall have an inheritance in Israel, too. The Lord says that they shall have an inheritance with the tribe where they are living.

Ezekiel 48
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1-14_A portion is given to Dan in the north. Then portions are given to Asher on the east and Naphtali on the west followed by Manasseh and Ephraim and then Reuben and Judah. The allotment for the sanctuary will be within Judah's portion. The allotment for the priests is not to be sold or exchanged. It is holy to the Lord.

__15-29_Most of the measurements given here are repeats of measurements previously given. The prince has his allotment alongside the holy allotment for the sanctuary, the priests and Levites. The rest of the tribes are listed specifying a portion each for Benjamin, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulun and Gad. Twelve tribes have been listed.

__30-33_The twelve gates of the city are named for the twelve tribes of Israel. There are three gates on each side. The north side has the gates of Reuben, Judah and Levi. The east side has the gates of Joseph, Benjamin and Dan. The south side has the gates of Simeon, Issachar and Zebulun.

__34-35_On the west side of the city there are three gates. These are for Gad, Asher and Naphtali. The city shall be a little over five miles in circumference. The name of the city shall be, the Lord is there.

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