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Lexicon :: Strong's H3478 - yiśrā'ēl

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יִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration
yiśrā'ēl
Pronunciation
yis-raw-ale'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'; from H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity:—Israel.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,505x

The KJV translates Strong's H3478 in the following manner: Israel (2,489x), Israelites (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,505x
The KJV translates Strong's H3478 in the following manner: Israel (2,489x), Israelites (16x).

  1. Israel = "God prevails"

    1. the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel

    2. the name of the descendants and the nation of the descendants of Jacob

      1. the name of the nation until the death of Solomon and the split

      2. the name used and given to the northern kingdom consisting of the 10 tribes under Jeroboam; the southern kingdom was known as Judah

      3. the name of the nation after the return from exile

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'; from H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity:—Israel.
STRONGS H3478: Abbreviations
יִשְׂרָאֵל 2507 proper name, masculine and of a people Israel (Ēl persisteth, persevereth (or jussive Let Ēl persist) [usually contendeth (NesEg.60 ff.) or Let Ēl contend (GrayProp. N. 218), but see DrHast. DB JACOB 530]; on vocalization see LagBN 131 f. Kit 1 Chronicles 4:16 (Hpt); MI5, + 5 times ישראל; in Egyptian Y-si-r-'l SteindZAW xvi (1896), 331, compare BreastedBib. World ix (1897), 62 ff. PatonSyr. and Pal. 134; Assyrian Sir-'-lai (= יִשְׂרְאֵלִי) SchrKG 356 ff., 364; COT Genesis 36:31; 1 Kings 16:29. — On a possibly relation of יִשׂ׳ to proper name שָׂרַי, שָׂרָה see RSK 257, 2nd ed. 34; — compare שְׂרָיָה(וּ); — Ισραηλ:
1. proper name, masculine. second name of Jacob Genesis 32:29 + 28 times Genesis (JE), Exodus 32:13 (JE), Hosea 12:13; Judges 18:29; Exodus 6:14; Numbers 1:20; Numbers 26:5 (all P), 2 Kings 17:34; 1 Chronicles 1:34 + 8 times Chronicles, Psalm 105:23; בֵּית יִשׂ׳ Ruth 4:11; בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ (literal) Genesis 42:5 + 3 times E, + 2 times P + Exodus 1:7 (P; transition to wider use), 1 Kings 18:31; 1 Chronicles 2:1 +; = 12 tribes Exodus 28:9 + 7 times P; אֱלֹהֵי אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק וְיִשׂ׳ 1 Kings 18:36; 1 Chronicles 29:18; 2 Chronicles 30:6.
2. proper name, of a people (usually masculineJudges 11:17 f but feminine 1 Samuel 17:21; 2 Samuel 24:9 [not || 1 Chronicles 21:5], compare Dron the passage AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 57 f.): name of Hebrew nation; usually derived from 1, but יִשׂ׳ more common in early usage than בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ (see בֵּן):
a.
(1) undivided kingdom; יִשׂ׳ Genesis 47:27 (J), Genesis 49:7 (poem in J) + 108 times J E, Deuteronomy 1:1; Deuteronomy 18:6; Deuteronomy 33:10 (poem) + 76 times D, Genesis 34:7; Exodus 12:15 + 42 times P; Judges 5:2, 7 (twice in verse) + 104 times Judges; often 1 and 2 Samuel; 1 Kings 1-12; כָּליִֿשׂ׳ of whole people 2 Samuel 8:15 +, of whole army 2 Samuel 11:1 +, opposed to Judah 2 Samuel 2:9 + (so also later).
(2) יִשׂ׳ = Northern tribes, distinguished from Judah, even before disruption, 2 Samuel 2:9, compare 2 Samuel 2:10; 2 Samuel 3:10; 2 Samuel 4:1; 2 Samuel 5:5; 2 Samuel 12:7; 2 Samuel 20:1; 1 Kings 1:35; 1 Kings 4:20; 1 Kings 5:5 +; so at disruption 1 Kings 12:16 (3 times in verse); 1 Kings 12:18, 19; then usually of Northern kingdom, till its fall, 1 Kings 12:28; 1Ki 24:7; 1Ki 24:10 + very often Kings, Amos 1:1; Amos 2:6; Amos 3:14 +, Hosea 1:5; Hosea 4:15 (twice in verse); Hosea 5:3 (twice in verse); Hosea 5:5 +, Micah 1:13, etc.
(3) יִשׂ׳ of Southern kingdom, Judah, rarely before fall of Samaria Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 8:18; Micah 1:14, 15, so בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ 1 Kings 12:17; after fall of Samaria, יִשׂ׳ (less often בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳) occurs of entire people, in reference to past or future 2 Kings 21:8; 2 Kings 23:22; Isaiah 17:9; Psalm 103:7; Jeremiah 2:3; Jeremiah 50:17, 19 +; יִשׂ׳ also = Judah Jeremiah 2:14, 31; Jeremiah 4:1 +, Ezekiel 13:2, 4, 16; Ezekiel 14:1, 7, 9 +, Isaiah 40:27; Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 42:24 +, Ezra 2:59 = Nehemiah 7:61; Ezra 2:70; Ezra 3:11 +, Nehemiah 10:34; Nehemiah 10:3 +, Psalm 14:7 (twice in verse) = Psalm 53:7 [Psalm 53:6] (twice in verse), Psalm 147:2; Psalm 149:2 +, etc.
(4) usage in Chronicles: יִשׂ׳ of whole people 1 Chronicles 2:7 + 110 times, of Northern kingdom 2 Chronicles 11:1 + 16 times, of Judah 2 Chronicles 12:6; 19:8 + 9 times
(5) יִשׂ׳ personified as עֶבֶד י׳, Isaiah 44:1, 21; Isaiah 49:3.
b. בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳,
(1) of undivided people Exodus 1:12 (J), Exodus 3:9 (E) + 72 times J E, Deuteronomy 3:18; Deuteronomy 10:6 + 25 times D, Genesis 32:33 [Genesis 32:32] + 327 times P; Judges 1:1 + 60 times Judges; seldom 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1-12; in 1 Kings 13—2 Kings 25 passive in reference to older history (rarely otherwise).
(2) seldom of Northern kingdom Amos 2:11 + 9 times Amos, Hosea; 2 Chronicles 13:12 + 7 times Chronicles.
(3) of Judah (late) Ezekiel 2:3; Nehemiah 1:6 (twice in verse); Ezra 3:1; Joel 4:16 +, 2 Chronicles 31:5.
c. בֵּית יִשׂ׳ Exodus 16:31; Exodus 40:38 + 142 times (see בַּיִת 5d (δ); + 81 times Ezekiel, where = Judah; see especially Exodus 37:16); שְׁנֵי בָֽתֵּי יִשׂ׳ Isaiah 8:14.
d. other phrases, see sub אִישׁ, אֶרֶץ, בַּת, בְּתוּלָה, גְּבוּל, הַר, כִּסֵּא, מֶלֶךְ, (נטה) מַטֶּה, (יעד) עֵדָה, עַם, שֵׁבֶט; also (in epithet of י׳) below אָבִיר, אוֺר, אֱלֹחִים, I. גָּוֺאל, מֶלֶךְ, מִקְוֶה (I. קוה), I. צוּר (V. צור), קָדוֺשׁ, I. רָעָה 1d (3).
†e. יִשׂ׳ = the laity, opposed to priests, etc. (late): Ezra 10:25; Nehemiah 11:3; 1 Chronicles 9:2; כָּליִֿשׂ׳ Ezra 2:70; Ezra 10:5; הָעָם יִשׂ׳ Ezra 9:1; בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ Nehemiah 10:40, compare שְׁאָר יִשׂ׳ Nehemiah 11:20.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3479.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

32:29; 32:32; 34:7; 36:31; 42:5; 47:27; 49:7

Exodus

1:7; 1:12; 3:9; 6:14; 12:15; 16:31; 28:9; 32:13; 37:16; 40:38

Numbers

1:20; 26:5

Deuteronomy

1:1; 3:18; 10:6; 18:6; 33:10

Judges

1:1; 5:2; 5:7; 11:17; 18:29

Ruth

4:11

1 Samuel

17:21

2 Samuel

2:9; 2:9; 2:10; 3:10; 4:1; 5:5; 8:15; 11:1; 12:7; 20:1; 24:9

1 Kings

1:35; 4:20; 5:5; 12:16; 12:17; 12:18; 12:19; 12:28; 16:29; 18:31; 18:36

2 Kings

17:34; 21:8; 23:22

1 Chronicles

1:34; 2:1; 2:7; 4:16; 9:2; 21:5; 29:18

2 Chronicles

11:1; 12:6; 13:12; 19:8; 30:6; 31:5

Ezra

2:59; 2:70; 2:70; 3:1; 3:11; 9:1; 10:5; 10:25

Nehemiah

1:6; 7:61; 10:3; 10:34; 11:3; 11:20

Psalms

14:7; 53:6; 103:7; 105:23; 147:2; 149:2

Isaiah

1:3; 8:14; 8:18; 17:9; 40:27; 41:8; 42:24; 44:1; 44:21; 49:3

Jeremiah

2:3; 2:14; 2:31; 4:1; 50:17; 50:19

Ezekiel

2:3; 13:2; 13:4; 13:16; 14:1; 14:7; 14:9

Hosea

1:5; 4:15; 5:3; 5:5; 12:13

Amos

1:1; 2:6; 2:11; 3:14

Micah

1:13; 1:14; 1:15

H3478

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Strong's Number H3478 matches the Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yiśrā'ēl),
which occurs 186 times in 169 verses in 'Eze' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Eze 2:3–Eze 14:6)

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:3 - Then He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, H3478 to a rebellious people who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:1 - Then He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:4 - Then He said to me, “Son of man, [fn]go to the house of Israel H3478 and speak with My words to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:5 - “For you are not being sent to a people of [fn]unintelligible speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel, H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:7 - yet the house of Israel H3478 will not be willing to listen to you, since they are not willing to listen to Me. Surely the whole house of Israel H3478 is [fn]stubborn and obstinate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:17 - “Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; H3478 whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:3 - “Then get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:4 - “As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel H3478 on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:5 - “For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:13 - Then the LORD said, “Thus will the sons of Israel H3478 eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will banish them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:4 - “Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will [fn]spread to all the house of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:2 - “Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, H3478 and prophesy against them

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:3 - and say, ‘Mountains of Israel, H3478 listen to the word of the Lord [fn]GOD! Thus says the Lord [fn]GOD to the mountains, the hills, the ravines and the valleys: “Behold, I Myself am going to bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:5 - “I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel H3478 in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:11 - “Thus says the Lord [fn]GOD, ‘Clap your hand, stamp your foot and say, “Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, H3478 which will fall by sword, famine and plague!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:2 - “And you, son of man, thus says the Lord [fn]GOD to the land of Israel, H3478 ‘An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:4 - And behold, the glory of the God of Israel H3478 was there, like the appearance which I saw in the plain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:6 - And He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations which the house of Israel H3478 are committing here, so that I would be far from My sanctuary? But yet you will see still greater abominations.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of creeping things and beasts and detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, H3478 were carved on the wall all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:11 - Standing in front of them were seventy elders of the house of Israel, H3478 with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, each man with his censer in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense rising.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:12 - Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel H3478 are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:3 - Then the glory of the God of Israel H3478 went up from the cherub on which it had been, to the threshold of the [fn]temple. And He called to the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the writing case.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:8 - As they were striking the people and I alone was left, I fell on my face and cried out [fn]saying, “Alas, Lord [fn]GOD! Are You destroying the whole remnant of Israel H3478 [fn]by pouring out Your wrath on Jerusalem?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 - Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel H3478 and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with blood and the city is full of perversion; for they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:19 - When the cherubim departed, they lifted their wings and rose up from the earth in my sight with the wheels beside them; and they stood still at the entrance of the east gate of the LORD’S house, and the glory of the God of Israel H3478 [fn]hovered over them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:20 - These are the living beings that I saw beneath the God of Israel H3478 by the river Chebar; so I knew that they were cherubim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:5 - Then the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and He said to me, “Say, ‘Thus says the LORD, “So you think, house of Israel, H3478 for I know [fn]your thoughts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:10 - “You will fall by the sword. I will judge you to the border of Israel; H3478 so you shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:11 - “This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be flesh in the midst of it, but I will judge you to the border of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:13 - Now it came about as I prophesied, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, “Alas, Lord GOD! Will You bring the remnant of Israel H3478 to a complete end?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:15 - “Son of man, your brothers, your [fn]relatives, [fn]your fellow exiles and the whole house of Israel, H3478 all of them, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far from the LORD; this land has been given us as a possession.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:17 - “Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”’ H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:22 - Then the cherubim lifted up their wings with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel H3478 [fn]hovered over them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:6 - “Load the baggage on your shoulder in their sight and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have set you as a sign to the house of Israel.” H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:9 - “Son of man, has not the house of Israel, H3478 the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:10 - “Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord [fn]GOD, “This [fn]burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem as well as all the house of Israel H3478 who are [fn]in it.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:19 - “Then say to the people of the land, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, H3478 “They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, because [fn]their land will be [fn]stripped of its fullness on account of the violence of all who live in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:22 - “Son of man, what is this proverb you people have concerning the land of Israel, H3478 saying, ‘The days are long and every vision fails’?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:23 - “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “I will make this proverb cease so that they will no longer use it as a proverb in Israel.” H3478 But tell them, “The days draw near as well as the [fn]fulfillment of every vision.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:24 - “For there will no longer be any [fn]false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:27 - “Son of man, behold, the house of Israel H3478 is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for many [fn]years from now, and he prophesies of times far off.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:2 - “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel H3478 who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from their own [fn]inspiration, ‘Listen to the word of the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4 - “O Israel, H3478 your prophets have been like foxes among ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:5 - “You have not gone up into the breaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel H3478 to stand in the battle on the day of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9 - “So My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will [fn]have no place in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, H3478 nor will they enter the land of Israel, H3478 [fn]that you may know that I am the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:16 - along with the prophets of Israel H3478 who prophesy to Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,’ declares the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:1 - Then some elders of Israel H3478 came to me and sat down before me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:4 - “Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord [fn]GOD, “Any man of the house of Israel H3478 who sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will be brought to give him an answer in [fn]the matter in view of the multitude of his idols,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:5 - in order to lay hold of [fn]the hearts of the house of Israel H3478 who are [fn]estranged from Me through all their idols.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:6 - “Therefore say to the house of Israel, H3478 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Repent and turn away from your idols and turn your faces away from all your abominations.

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