Why Will You Die, Israel?

Ezekiel 33

10 "And you, f son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: 'Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and g we rot away because of them. h How then can we live?' 11 Say to them, i As I live, declares the Lord God, j I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; k turn back, turn back from your evil ways, k for why will you die, O house of Israel?

12 t "And you, son of man, say to l your people, m The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, n and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, m and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness 1 when he sins. 13 Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet m if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die. 14 Again, o though I say to the wicked, p 'You shall surely die,' yet q if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right, 15 if the wicked r restores the pledge, s gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks t in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 16 u None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.

17 "Yet l your people say, v 'The way of the Lord is not just,' when it is their own way that is not just. 18 w When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it. 19 And x when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this. 20 Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, y I will judge each of you according to his ways."

  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 4:17
    I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment.
  3. Cross References
    Ezekiel 37:11
    Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.
    Isaiah 49:14
    But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.
  4. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:48
    As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
  5. Cross References
    Ezekiel 18:23
    Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?
  6. Cross References
    Ezekiel 18:31
    Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?
  7. Cross References
    Ezekiel 18:31
    Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?
  8. Cross References
    Ezekiel 33:2
    Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman.
  9. Cross References
    Ezekiel 33:2
    Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman.
  10. Cross References
    Ezekiel 33:18
    When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it.
    Ezekiel 18:24
    But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.
  11. Cross References
    Ezekiel 33:18
    When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it.
    Ezekiel 18:24
    But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.
  12. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 7:14
    If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
  13. Cross References
    Ezekiel 33:12
    And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins.
  14. Cross References
    Ezekiel 3:18
    If I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
  15. Cross References
    Genesis 2:17
    But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
  16. Cross References
    Ezekiel 18:27
    Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.
  17. Cross References
    Ezekiel 18:7
    Does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment.
  18. Cross References
    Leviticus 6:2
    If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor
    Leviticus 6:4 - 5
    If he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found
    Luke 19:8
    And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.
  19. Cross References
    Ezekiel 20:11
    I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.
  20. Cross References
    Ezekiel 18:22
    None of the transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done he shall live.
  21. Cross References
    Ezekiel 33:12
    And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins.
  22. Cross References
    Ezekiel 18:25
    Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
    Ezekiel 18:29
    Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
  23. Cross References
    Ezekiel 33:12 - 13
    And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins.
    Ezekiel 18:26
    When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it; for the injustice that he has done he shall die.
  24. Cross References
    Ezekiel 18:27
    Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.
    Ezekiel 33:11 - 12
    Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
  25. Cross References
    Ezekiel 18:30
    Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.
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