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    Ezekiel · 14 verses

    Ezekiel 6

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    A prophet is told to clap his hands, stomp his feet, and cry “Alas!” while sword, famine, and plague go about their work.

    The mountains hear their sentencevv. 1–7

    The word comes to the prophet with an improbable congregation before him: mountains, hills, ravines, and valleys. He is to set his face against them, for their high places, altars, incense altars, and idols are all to be demolished, with the slain cast down among them. The landscape is made to display the result, and the survivors are to know who has done it.

    A remnant remembersvv. 8–10

    Yet the sword does not take everyone. Some escape and are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands; there, in captivity, the survivors remember the LORD and the grief caused by their adulterous hearts and idolatrous eyes. Their recollection is not flattering: they loathe themselves for what they have done, and learn that the calamity was not declared in vain.

    The gesture and the mapvv. 11–14

    Then comes the prophet's public instruction: clap, stomp, and cry “Alas!” over the wicked abominations of Israel, whose people will fall by three separate calamities. The far-off die by plague, the near fall by sword, and the one who remains dies by famine. Even the dead receive an exact setting—among idols and around altars, on hills and mountaintops, beneath green trees and leafy oaks—while the land itself is stretched into desolation from the wilderness to Diblah.

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    1. Ezek 6:1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    2. Ezek 6:2“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.

    3. Ezek 6:3You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

    4. Ezek 6:4Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

    5. Ezek 6:5I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

    6. Ezek 6:6Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

    7. Ezek 6:7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

    8. Ezek 6:8Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.

    9. Ezek 6:9Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.

    10. Ezek 6:10And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.

    11. Ezek 6:11This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.

    12. Ezek 6:12He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.

    13. Ezek 6:13Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

    14. Ezek 6:14I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

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    Where this is echoed

    Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 200 passages were voted onto 13 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

    • 9Ezekiel 20:43There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.
    • 9Isaiah 7:13Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?
    • 9Isaiah 43:24You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
    • 9Psalms 78:40How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
    • 9Job 42:6Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
    • 9Zechariah 10:9Though I sow them among the nations, they will remember Me in distant lands; they and their children will live and return.
    • 9Deuteronomy 4:29–31But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
    • 9Ezekiel 20:7And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’
    • 14Isaiah 5:25Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
    • 8Ezekiel 14:22Yet, behold, some survivors will be left in it—sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their conduct and actions, you will be comforted regarding the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem—all that I have brought upon it.
    • 9Jeremiah 51:50You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”
    • 13Ezekiel 20:28When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.
    • 42 Chronicles 14:5He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.
    • 92 Peter 2:14Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
    • 11Ezekiel 5:12A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.
    • 13Hosea 4:13They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

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