Ezekiel 33:26 Cross References

Ezekiel 33:26

26: Murderers! Idolaters! Adulterers! Should the land belong to you?

Its leaders are like roaring lions hunting for their victims--out for everything they can get. Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time, who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.

How terrible it will be for you who lie awake at night, thinking up evil plans. You rise at dawn and hurry to carry out any of the wicked schemes you have power to accomplish.
When you want a certain piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone's house, you take it by fraud and violence. No one's family or inheritance is safe with you around!

and you will live by your sword. You will serve your brother for a time, but then you will shake loose from him and be free."

And suppose that son does all the evil things his father would never do--worships idols on the mountains, commits adultery,
oppresses the poor and helpless, steals from debtors by refusing to let them redeem what they have given in pledge, worships idols and takes part in loathsome practices,

and he has not feasted in the mountains before Israel's idols or worshiped them. And suppose he does not commit adultery or have intercourse with a woman during her menstrual period.

"The penalty for homosexual acts is death to both parties. They have committed a detestable act and are guilty of a capital offense.

People accuse others falsely and send them to their death. You are filled with idol worshipers and people who take part in lewd activities.
Men sleep with their fathers' wives and have intercourse with women who are menstruating.
Within your walls live men who commit adultery with their neighbors' wives, who defile their daughters-in-law or who rape their own sisters.

But as surely as the LORD your God has given you the good things he promised, he will also bring disaster on you if you disobey him. He will completely wipe you out from this good land he has given you.
If you break the covenant of the LORD your God by worshiping and serving other gods, his anger will burn against you, and you will quickly be wiped out from the good land he has given you."

"You must carefully obey all my laws and regulations; otherwise the land to which I am bringing you will vomit you out.

Can unjust leaders claim that God is on their side--leaders who permit injustice by their laws?
They attack the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

Nothing evil will be allowed to enter--no one who practices shameful idolatry and dishonesty--but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor's wife.
Should I not punish them for this?" asks the LORD. "Should I not avenge myself against a nation such as this?

As a result, the entire land has become defiled. That is why I am punishing the people who live there, and the land will soon vomit them out.
You must strictly obey all of my laws and regulations, and you must not do any of these detestable things. This applies both to you who are Israelites by birth and to the foreigners living among you.
"All these detestable activities are practiced by the people of the land where I am taking you, and the land has become defiled.
Do not give the land a reason to vomit you out for defiling it, as it will vomit out the people who live there now.
Whoever does any of these detestable things will be cut off from the community of Israel.

Suppose this son refuses to worship idols on the mountains, does not commit adultery,

Solomon worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech, the detestable god of the Ammonites.
Thus, Solomon did what was evil in the LORD's sight; he refused to follow the LORD completely, as his father, David, had done.
On the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, he even built a shrine for Chemosh, the detestable god of Moab, and another for Molech, the detestable god of the Ammonites.

But God says to the wicked: "Recite my laws no longer, and don't pretend that you obey me.
For you refuse my discipline and treat my laws like trash.
When you see a thief, you help him, and you spend your time with adulterers.
Your mouths are filled with wickedness, and your tongues are full of lies.
You sit around and slander a brother--your own mother's son.

The LORD made this covenant with you so that no man, woman, family, or tribe among you would turn away from the LORD our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you would bear bitter and poisonous fruit.
Let none of those who hear the warnings of this curse consider themselves immune, thinking, `I am safe, even though I am walking in my own stubborn way.' This would lead to utter ruin!
The LORD will not pardon such people. His anger and jealousy will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will come down on them, and the LORD will erase their names from under heaven.
The LORD will separate them from all the tribes of Israel, to pour out on them all the covenant curses recorded in this Book of the Law.
"Then the generations to come, both your own descendants and the foreigners who come from distant lands, will see the devastation of the land and the diseases the LORD will send against it.

But cowards who turn away from me, and unbelievers, and the corrupt, and murderers, and the immoral, and those who practice witchcraft, and idol worshipers, and all liars--their doom is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death."

You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy--their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.

"Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, says: The terrible things you are doing cannot continue! I had promised that your branch of the tribe of Levi would always be my priests. But I will honor only those who honor me, and I will despise those who despise me.

"In the future, when you have children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time, do not corrupt yourselves by making idols of any kind. This is evil in the sight of the LORD your God and will arouse his anger.
"Today I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you. If you disobey me, you will quickly disappear from the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy. You will live there only a short time; then you will be utterly destroyed.

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