Ezekiel 14:8 Cross References

Ezekiel 14:8

8: I will turn against such people and make a terrible example of them, destroying them. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

And I will see to it that if they escape from one fire, they will fall into another. When this happens, you will know that I am the LORD.

You will become an object of mockery and taunting and horror. You will be a warning to all the nations around you. They will see what happens when the LORD turns against a nation in furious rebuke. I, the LORD, have spoken!

"Therefore, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I have made up my mind to destroy every one of you!

You will become an object of horror, a proverb and a mockery among all the nations to which the LORD sends you.

"And I will turn against anyone, whether an Israelite or a foreigner living among you, who eats or drinks blood in any form. I will cut off such a person from the community,

Your name will be a curse word among my people, for the Sovereign LORD will destroy you and call his true servants by another name.

Their terrible fate will become proverbial, so that whenever the Judean exiles want to curse someone they will say, `May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned alive!'

But you will no longer talk of seeing visions that you never saw, nor will you practice your magic. For I will rescue my people from your grasp. Then you will know that I am the LORD."

Those blessed by the LORD will inherit the land, but those cursed by him will die.

But the earth opened up and swallowed them with Korah, and 250 of their followers were destroyed that day by fire from the LORD. This served as a warning to the entire nation of Israel.

Notice how God is both kind and severe. He is severe to those who disobeyed, but kind to you as you continue to trust in his kindness. But if you stop trusting, you also will be cut off.

"But those who become defiled and do not purify themselves will be cut off from the community, for they have defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Since the water of purification has not been sprinkled on them, they remain defiled.

I will turn against you, and you will be defeated by all your enemies. They will rule over you, and you will run even when no one is chasing you!

For I have decided to bring disaster and not good upon this city, says the LORD. It will be captured by the king of Babylon, and he will reduce it to ashes.'

I myself will turn against them and cut them off from the community, because they have defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name by giving their children to Molech.
And if the people of the community ignore this offering of children to Molech and refuse to execute the guilty parents,
then I myself will turn against them and cut them off from the community, along with all those who commit prostitution by worshiping Molech.
"If any among the people are unfaithful by consulting and following mediums or psychics, I will turn against them and cut them off from the community.

I will make them an object of horror and evil to every nation on earth. They will be disgraced and mocked, taunted and cursed, wherever I send them.

You have caused all our neighbors to mock us. We are an object of scorn and derision to the nations around us.
You have made us the butt of their jokes; we are scorned by the whole world.

All these events happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us, who live at the time when this age is drawing to a close.

But the LORD turns his face against those who do evil; he will erase their memory from the earth.

Remind them that if any of their descendants are ceremonially unclean when they approach the sacred food presented by the Israelites, they must be cut off from my presence. I am the LORD!

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