Ezekiel 6

Judgment Against Idolatry

1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 r "Son of man, s set your face toward t the mountains of Israel, and u prophesy against them, 3 and say, v You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to w the mountains and x the hills, to y the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, z and I will destroy your high places. 4 z Your altars shall become desolate, and your a incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols. 5 z And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, b and I will scatter your bones around your altars. 6 Wherever you dwell, c the cities shall be waste and d the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined, 1 your idols broken and destroyed, your a incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out. 7 And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

8 e "Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations f some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries, 9 then those of you who escape g will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how h I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes i that go whoring after their idols. g And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations. 10 And they shall know that I am the Lord. j I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them."

11 Thus says the Lord God: k "Clap your hands l and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, m for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. 12 n He who is far off shall die of pestilence, and he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who is left and is preserved shall die of famine. o Thus I will spend my fury upon them. 13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, p when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, q on every high hill, r on all the mountaintops, s under every green tree, and under t every leafy oak, wherever u they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols. 14 And v I will stretch out my hand against them and w make the land desolate and waste, x in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to y Riblah. 2 Then z they will know that I am the Lord."

  1. Cross References
    Ezekiel 2:1
    And he said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.
  2. Cross References
    Ezekiel 13:17
    And you, son of man, set your face against the ...
    Ezekiel 20:46
    Son of man, set your face toward the southland;...
    Ezekiel 21:2
    Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and ...
    Ezekiel 25:2
    Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites ...
    Ezekiel 28:21
    Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and pro...
    Ezekiel 29:2
    Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king ...
    Ezekiel 35:2
    Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, a...
    Ezekiel 38:2
    Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the la...
    Luke 9:51
    When the days drew near for him to be taken up,...
  3. Cross References
    Ezekiel 19:9
    With hooks they put him in a cage and brought h...
    Ezekiel 33:28
    And I will make the land a desolation and a was...
    Ezekiel 34:13 - 14
    And I will bring them out from the peoples and ...
    Ezekiel 35:12
    And you shall know that I am the Lord. "I have ...
    Ezekiel 36:1
    And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains ...
    Ezekiel 36:4
    Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word...
    Ezekiel 36:8
    But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot for...
    Ezekiel 37:22
    And I will make them one nation in the land, on...
    Ezekiel 38:8
    After many days you will be mustered. In the la...
    Ezekiel 39:2
    And I will turn you about and drive you forward...
    Ezekiel 39:4
    You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you ...
    Ezekiel 39:17
    As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God ...
  4. Cross References
    Ezekiel 37:4
    Then he said to me, "Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
    Ezekiel 37:9
    Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God : Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
    Ezekiel 38:2
    Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him
  5. Cross References
    Ezekiel 36:1
    And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord.
    Ezekiel 36:4
    Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God : Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around.
  6. Cross References
    Ezekiel 36:4
    Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God : Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around.
    Ezekiel 36:6
    Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord God : Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.
  7. Cross References
    Ezekiel 6:13
    And you shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols.
  8. Cross References
    Ezekiel 31:12
    Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it.
    Isaiah 57:5 - 6
    You who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
  9. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:30
    And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.
  10. Cross References
    Ezekiel 6:3
    And say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
  11. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 14:5
    He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.
  12. Cross References
    Ezekiel 6:3
    And say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
  13. Cross References
    2 Kings 23:14
    And he broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.
    2 Kings 23:16
    And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.
  14. Cross References
    Ezekiel 12:20
    And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
    Isaiah 27:10
    For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes; there it lies down and strips its branches.
  15. Cross References
    Ezekiel 6:3 - 4
    And say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
  16. Cross References
    Ezekiel 6:4
    Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
  17. Cross References
    Ezekiel 12:16
    But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the Lord.
    Ezekiel 14:22
    But behold, some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out; behold, when they come out to you, and you see their ways and their deeds, you will be consoled for the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I have brought upon it.
  18. Cross References
    Ezekiel 7:16
    And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.
  19. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:61
    Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you.
    Ezekiel 20:43
    And there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.
    Ezekiel 36:31
    Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.
    Leviticus 26:39 - 40
    And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.
  20. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:61
    Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you.
    Ezekiel 20:43
    And there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.
    Ezekiel 36:31
    Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.
    Leviticus 26:39 - 40
    And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.
  21. Cross References
    Jeremiah 23:9
    Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine, because of the Lord and because of his holy words.
  22. Cross References
    Exodus 34:15
    Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice.
  23. Cross References
    Numbers 23:19
    God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
  24. Cross References
    Ezekiel 21:14
    As for you, son of man, prophesy. Clap your hands and let the sword come down twice, yes, three times, the sword for those to be slain. It is the sword for the great slaughter, which surrounds them.
    Ezekiel 21:17
    I also will clap my hands, and I will satisfy my fury; I the Lord have spoken.
  25. Cross References
    Ezekiel 25:6
    For thus says the Lord God : Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the malice within your soul against the land of Israel.
  26. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:12
    A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
  27. Cross References
    Ezekiel 7:15
    The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour.
  28. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:13
    Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the Lord - that I have spoken in my jealousy - when I spend my fury upon them.
  29. Cross References
    Ezekiel 6:4 - 5
    Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
  30. Cross References
    Ezekiel 20:28
    For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.
  31. Cross References
    Hosea 4:13
    They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and your brides commit adultery.
  32. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:20
    For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, 'I will not serve.' Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.
  33. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:29
    For they shall be ashamed of the oaks that you desired; and you shall blush for the gardens that you have chosen.
  34. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:19
    Also my bread that I gave you - I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey - you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God.
    Ezekiel 20:28
    For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.
    Genesis 8:21
    And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
  35. Cross References
    Ezekiel 25:7
    Therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
    Ezekiel 25:13
    Therefore thus says the Lord God, I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it man and beast. And I will make it desolate; from Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.
    Ezekiel 25:16
    Therefore thus says the Lord God, Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the rest of the seacoast.
    Ezekiel 35:3
    And say to it, Thus says the Lord God : Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a waste.
    Isaiah 5:25
    Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them, and the mountains quaked; and their corpses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
  36. Cross References
    Ezekiel 33:28
    And I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and her proud might shall come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through.
  37. Cross References
    Ezekiel 6:6
    Wherever you dwell, the cities shall be waste and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.
  38. Cross References
    Numbers 34:11
    And the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border shall go down and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east.
  39. Cross References
    Ezekiel 6:7
    And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
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