Ezekiel 20:29-31

Israel's Continuing Rebellion

29 (I said to them, d What is the high place to which you go? So its name is called Bamah 1 to this day.)

30 "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: e Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and go f whoring after their detestable things? 31 When you present your gifts and g offer up your children in fire, 2 you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And h shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? i As I live, declares the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.

  1. Cross References
    Ezekiel 20:40
    For on my holy mountain, the mountain height of Israel, declares the Lord God, there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your sacred offerings.
  2. Cross References
    Ezekiel 20:7
    And I said to them, Cast away the detestable things your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 106:39
    Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.
  4. Cross References
    Ezekiel 20:26
    And I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the Lord.
  5. Cross References
    Ezekiel 14:3
    Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them?
  6. 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.
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