Ezekiel Chapter 14

• Ezekiel 14:1
  Ezekiel.
• Ezekiel 14:2
  Then some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me.
• Ezekiel 14:3
  The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
• Ezekiel 14:4
  “Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired ...
• Ezekiel 14:5
  Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling...
• Ezekiel 14:6
  that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”’
• Ezekiel 14:7
  “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations...
• Ezekiel 14:8
  “‘“For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me and takes his idols into his heart, and ...
• Ezekiel 14:9
  I will set my face against that man and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people. Then you...
• Ezekiel 14:10
  “‘“If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the LORD, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him ...
• Ezekiel 14:11
  They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him,
• Ezekiel 14:12
  that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my peop...
• Ezekiel 14:13
  The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
• Ezekiel 14:14
  “Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread and send famine o...
• Ezekiel 14:15
  though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord GOD.
• Ezekiel 14:16
  “If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals—
• Ezekiel 14:17
  though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only would be delivered, but th...
• Ezekiel 14:18
  “Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off from it man and animal’—
• Ezekiel 14:19
  though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only would be delivered the...
• Ezekiel 14:20
  “Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal—
• Ezekiel 14:21
  though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their o...
• Ezekiel 14:22
  For the Lord GOD says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence—to...
• Ezekiel 14:23
  Yet, behold, there will be left a remnant in it that will be carried out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they will come out to you, and you will see...
• Ezekiel 14:24
  They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; then you will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause,” say...