Ezekiel 14 (NET)

Ezekiel 14:1¹Then some men from Israel’s elders came to me and sat down in front of me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 8:12 Kgs 6:32Ezek 20:1Isa 29:13Ezek 33:31Acts 4:5Acts 22:3Acts 4:8Luke 10:39

Ezekiel 14:2²The Lord’ s message came to me:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 3:71 Kgs 14:4

Ezekiel 14:3³“Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek me?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 14:7Ezek 7:19Ezek 20:16Ezek 20:3Isa 1:15Ezek 14:4Prov 28:9Ezek 20:31Ezek 44:121 Pet 2:8

Ezekiel 14:4⁴Therefore speak to them and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When anyone from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 14:7Isa 66:4Ezek 3:17-21Isa 3:111 Kgs 21:20-252 Kgs 1:16Ezek 2:7Ezek 3:4

Ezekiel 14:5⁵I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:4Zech 11:82 Thess 2:9-11Col 1:21Deut 32:15-16Eph 4:18Ezek 14:9-10Gal 6:7Heb 3:12Hos 10:2

Ezekiel 14:6⁶“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Return! Turn from your idols, and turn your faces away from your abominations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 18:30Ezek 36:31-32Isa 2:20Isa 30:22Jas 4:8-10Lam 3:39-411 Kgs 8:47-491 Sam 7:3Acts 17:30Acts 26:20

Ezekiel 14:7⁷For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the resident foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:48Isa 58:1-22 Kgs 8:8-15Exod 20:10Ezek 14:3-4Ezek 14:7-8Ezek 33:30-32Hos 4:14Hos 9:10Jer 21:1-2

Ezekiel 14:8⁸I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 15:7Ezek 5:15Jer 44:11Deut 28:37Ezek 6:7Isa 65:15Lev 17:101 Cor 10:11Ezek 13:23Jer 21:10

Ezekiel 14:9⁹“‘As for the prophet, if he is made a fool by being deceived into speaking a prophetic word—I, the Lord, have made a fool of that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:25Jer 4:101 Kgs 22:20-232 Sam 12:11-122 Thess 2:9-12Ezek 16:27Isa 10:4Isa 5:25Isa 63:16Isa 66:4

Ezekiel 14:10¹⁰They will bear their punishment; the punishment of the one who sought an oracle will be the same as the punishment of the prophet who gave itCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 23:49Deut 13:1-10Deut 17:2-7Ezek 14:4Ezek 14:7-8Ezek 17:18-20Gal 6:5Gen 4:13Jer 14:15Jer 6:14-15

Ezekiel 14:11¹¹so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people, and I will be their God, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 37:23Ezek 44:10Ezek 48:11Rev 21:7Ezek 11:18-20Ezek 39:22Ezek 44:15Heb 11:16Jer 11:4Jer 31:33

Ezekiel 14:12¹²The Lord’ s message came to me:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Ezekiel 14:13¹³“Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 4:16Lev 26:26Ezek 14:17Ezek 14:19Ezek 14:21Ezek 15:8Ezek 5:16Isa 24:20Isa 3:1Jer 32:43

Ezekiel 14:14¹⁴Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would save only their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 14:20Jer 15:1Ezek 28:3Gen 7:1Ezek 14:18Job 1:1Dan 10:11Gen 6:8Heb 11:7Job 1:5

Ezekiel 14:15¹⁵“Suppose I were to send wild animals through the land and kill its children, leaving it desolate, without travelers due to the wild animals.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 5:17Lev 26:22Jer 15:31 Kgs 20:362 Kgs 17:25

Ezekiel 14:16¹⁶Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters; they would save only their own lives, and the land would become desolate.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 19:29Acts 27:24Ezek 14:14Ezek 14:18Ezek 14:20Ezek 18:20Ezek 33:11Gen 18:23-33Heb 11:7Jas 5:16

Ezekiel 14:17¹⁷“Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 21:3-4Lev 26:25Ezek 5:12Zeph 1:3Ezek 14:13Ezek 25:13Jer 47:6Ezek 21:9-15Ezek 29:8Ezek 38:21-22

Ezekiel 14:18¹⁸Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters—they would save only their own lives.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Ezekiel 14:19¹⁹“Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 38:222 Sam 24:15Ezek 5:12Ezek 7:8Jer 14:121 Kgs 8:372 Chr 20:92 Chr 6:282 Chr 7:132 Sam 24:13

Ezekiel 14:20²⁰Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, they could not save their own son or daughter; they would save only their own lives by their righteousness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 14:141 John 3:101 John 2:291 John 3:7Acts 10:35Ezek 14:16Ezek 18:22Hos 10:12Isa 3:10Job 5:19-24

Ezekiel 14:21²¹“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments—sword, famine, wild animals, and plague—to Jerusalem to kill both people and animals!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 33:27Ezek 5:17Ezek 14:13Ezek 14:15Ezek 14:17Ezek 14:19Amos 4:6-12Ezek 5:12Ezek 6:11-12Jer 15:2-3

Ezekiel 14:22²²Yet 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 behavior and their deeds, you will be consoled about the catastrophe I have brought on Jerusalem—for everything I brought on it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 12:16Ezek 20:43Heb 12:6-112 Chr 36:20Deut 4:31Ezek 16:54Ezek 16:63Ezek 36:31Ezek 6:8-10Isa 10:20-22

Ezekiel 14:23²³They will console you when you see their behavior and their deeds, because you will know that it was not without reason that I have done everything that I have done in it, declares the Sovereign Lord.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 22:8-9Dan 9:14Dan 9:7Deut 8:2Ezek 8:6-18Ezek 9:8-9Gen 18:22-33Jer 7:17-28Neh 9:33Prov 26:2