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Ezekiel 14 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Idolaters Condemned

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:1 - Some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat down in front of me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:2 - Then the word of the LORD came to me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:3 - “Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I let them inquire of me at all?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:4 - Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When any of the Israelites set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet, I the LORD will answer them myself in keeping with their great idolatry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:5 - I will do this to recapture the hearts of the people of Israel, who have all deserted me for their idols.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:6 - “Therefore say to the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Repent! Turn from your idols and renounce all your detestable practices!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - “ ‘When any of the Israelites or any foreigner residing in Israel separate themselves from me and set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet to inquire of me, I the LORD will answer them myself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:8 - I will set my face against them and make them an example and a byword. I will remove them from my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:9 - “ ‘And if the prophet is enticed to utter a prophecy, I the LORD have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:10 - They will bear their guilt—the prophet will be as guilty as the one who consults him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:11 - Then the people of Israel will no longer stray from me, nor will they defile themselves anymore with all their sins. They will be my people, and I will be their God, declares the Sovereign LORD.’ ”

Jerusalem’s Judgment Inescapable

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:12 - The word of the LORD came to me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:13 - “Son of man, if a country sins against me by being unfaithful and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its food supply and send famine upon it and kill its people and their animals,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:14 - even if these three men—Noah, Daniel[fn] and Job—were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:15 - “Or if I send wild beasts through that country and they leave it childless and it becomes desolate so that no one can pass through it because of the beasts,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:16 - as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved, but the land would be desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:17 - “Or if I bring a sword against that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass throughout the land,’ and I kill its people and their animals,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:18 - as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:19 - “Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath on it through bloodshed, killing its people and their animals,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:20 - as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, even if Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they could save neither son nor daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 - “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments—sword and famine and wild beasts and plague—to kill its men and their animals!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:22 - Yet there will be some survivors—sons and daughters who will be brought out of it. They will come to you, and when you see their conduct and their actions, you will be consoled regarding the disaster I have brought on Jerusalem—every disaster I have brought on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:23 - You will be consoled when you see their conduct and their actions, for you will know that I have done nothing in it without cause, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
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Or Danel, a man of renown in ancient literature; also in verse 20
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Ezekiel Chapter 14 — Additional Translations:

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