Ezekiel 20:31 Cross References

Ezekiel 20:31

31: For when you offer gifts to them and give your little children to be burned as sacrifices, you continue to pollute yourselves to this day. Should I listen to you or help you, O people of Israel? As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, I will not give you a message even though you have come to me requesting one.

Ezekiel 20:26

  1. I let them pollute themselves with the very gifts I had given them, and I allowed them to give their firstborn children as offerings to their gods--so I might devastate them and show them that I alone am the LORD.

Jeremiah 7:31

  1. They have built the pagan shrines of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, where they sacrifice their little sons and daughters in the fire. I have never commanded such a horrible deed; it never even crossed my mind to command such a thing!

Psalms 106:37

  1. They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.
  2. They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters. By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan, they polluted the land with murder.
  3. They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the LORD's sight.

1 Samuel 28:5

  1. When Saul saw the vast Philistine army, he became frantic with fear.
  2. He asked the LORD what he should do, but the LORD refused to answer him, either by dreams or by sacred lots or by the prophets.

Deuteronomy 18:10

  1. For example, never sacrifice your son or daughter as a burnt offering. And do not let your people practice fortune-telling or sorcery, or allow them to interpret omens, or engage in witchcraft,
  2. or cast spells, or function as mediums or psychics, or call forth the spirits of the dead.
  3. Anyone who does these things is an object of horror and disgust to the LORD. It is because the other nations have done these things that the LORD your God will drive them out ahead of you.

Jeremiah 14:12

  1. When they fast in my presence, I will pay no attention. When they present their burnt offerings and grain offerings to me, I will not accept them. In return, I will give them only war, famine, and disease."

James 4:1

  1. What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Isn't it the whole army of evil desires at war within you?
  2. You want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous for what others have, and you can't possess it, so you fight and quarrel to take it away from them. And yet the reason you don't have what you want is that you don't ask God for it.
  3. And even when you do ask, you don't get it because your whole motive is wrong--you want only what will give you pleasure.

Job 27:8

  1. For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off and takes away their life?

Ezekiel 16:20

  1. "Then you took your sons and daughters--the children you had borne to me--and sacrificed them to your gods. Was it not enough that you should be a prostitute?

2 Kings 3:13

  1. "I want no part of you," Elisha said to the king of Israel. "Go to the pagan prophets of your father and mother!" But King Joram said, "No! For it was the LORD who called us three kings here to be destroyed by the king of Moab!"
  2. Elisha replied, "As surely as the LORD Almighty lives, whom I serve, I would not bother with you except for my respect for King Jehoshaphat of Judah.

Ezekiel 14:3

  1. "Son of man, these leaders have set up idols in their hearts. They have embraced things that lead them into sin. Why should I let them ask me anything?
  2. Give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: I, the LORD, will punish the people of Israel who set up idols in their hearts so they fall into sin and then come to a prophet asking for help.

Job 27:10

  1. Can they take delight in the Almighty? Can they call to God at any time?

Ezekiel 20:3

  1. "Son of man, give the leaders of Israel this message from the Sovereign LORD: How dare you come to ask for my help? As surely as I live, I will tell you nothing. This is the word of the Sovereign LORD!

Psalms 66:18

  1. If I had not confessed the sin in my heart, my Lord would not have listened.

Zechariah 7:13

  1. "Since they refused to listen when I called to them, I would not listen when they called to me, says the LORD Almighty.

Jeremiah 19:5

  1. They have built pagan shrines to Baal, and there they burn their sons as sacrifices to Baal. I have never commanded such a horrible deed; it never even crossed my mind to command such a thing!

Matthew 25:11

  1. Later, when the other five bridesmaids returned, they stood outside, calling, 'Sir, open the door for us!'
  2. But he called back, 'I don't know you!'

Isaiah 1:15

  1. From now on, when you lift up your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen. For your hands are covered with the blood of your innocent victims.

Proverbs 28:9

  1. The prayers of a person who ignores the law are despised.

Proverbs 1:27

  1. when calamity overcomes you like a storm, when you are engulfed by trouble, and when anguish and distress overwhelm you.
  2. "I will not answer when they cry for help. Even though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me.
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