Ezekiel 12:2 Cross References
Ezekiel 12:2
2: "Son of man, you live among rebels who could see the truth if they wanted to, but they don't want to. They could hear me if they would listen, but they won't listen because they are rebellious.
Psalms 78:40
- Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the desert and grieved his heart in the wilderness.
Mark 4:12
- so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled: 'They see what I do, but they don't perceive its meaning. They hear my words, but they don't understand. So they will not turn from their sins and be forgiven.'
John 12:40
- "The Lord has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts--so their eyes cannot see, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them."
Ezekiel 2:5
- And whether they listen or not--for remember, they are rebels--at least they will know they have had a prophet among them.
- "Son of man, do not fear them. Don't be afraid even though their threats are sharp as thorns and barbed like briers, and they sting like scorpions. Do not be dismayed by their dark scowls. For remember, they are rebels!
- You must give them my messages whether they listen or not. But they won't listen, for they are completely rebellious!
- Son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not join them in being a rebel. Open your mouth, and eat what I give you."
Isaiah 1:23
- Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them take bribes and refuse to defend the orphans and the widows.
Ezekiel 2:3
- "Son of man," he said, "I am sending you to the nation of Israel, a nation that is rebelling against me. Their ancestors have rebelled against me from the beginning, and they are still in revolt to this very day.
Jeremiah 5:21
- Listen, you foolish and senseless people--who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
Matthew 13:13
- That is why I tell these stories, because people see what I do, but they don't really see. They hear what I say, but they don't really hear, and they don't understand.
- This fulfills the prophecy of Isaiah, which says: 'You will hear my words, but you will not understand; you will see what I do, but you will not perceive its meaning.
John 9:39
- Then Jesus told him, "I have come to judge the world. I have come to give sight to the blind and to show those who think they see that they are blind."
- The Pharisees who were standing there heard him and asked, "Are you saying we are blind?"
- "If you were blind, you wouldn't be guilty," Jesus replied. "But you remain guilty because you claim you can see.
Isaiah 6:9
- And he said, "Yes, go. But tell my people this: `You will hear my words, but you will not understand. You will see what I do, but you will not perceive its meaning.'
- Harden the hearts of these people. Close their ears, and shut their eyes. That way, they will not see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn to me for healing."
Luke 8:10
- He replied, "You have been permitted to understand the secrets of the Kingdom of God. But I am using these stories to conceal everything about it from outsiders, so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled: 'They see what I do, but they don't really see; they hear what I say, but they don't understand.'
Deuteronomy 9:24
- Yes, you have been rebelling against the LORD as long as I have known you.
Isaiah 30:1
- "Destruction is certain for my rebellious children," says the LORD. "You make plans that are contrary to my will. You weave a web of plans that are not from my Spirit, thus piling up your sins.
Deuteronomy 29:4
- But to this day the LORD has not given you minds that understand, nor eyes that see, nor ears that hear!
Jeremiah 5:23
- "But my people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned against me and have chosen to practice idolatry.
Deuteronomy 31:27
- For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Even now, while I am still with you, you have rebelled against the LORD. How much more rebellious will you be after my death!
Deuteronomy 9:7
- "Remember how angry you made the LORD your God out in the wilderness. From the day you left Egypt until now, you have constantly rebelled against him.
Jeremiah 4:17
- They surround Jerusalem like watchmen surrounding a field, for my people have rebelled against me,'" says the LORD.
Ephesians 4:18
- Their closed minds are full of darkness; they are far away from the life of God because they have shut their minds and hardened their hearts against him.
Ezekiel 3:26
- And I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so you won't be able to pray for them, for they are rebellious.
- But whenever I give you a message, I will loosen your tongue and let you speak. Then you will say to them, `This is what the Sovereign LORD says!' Some of them will listen, but some will ignore you, for they are rebels.
2 Corinthians 3:14
- But the people's minds were hardened, and even to this day whenever the old covenant is being read, a veil covers their minds so they cannot understand the truth. And this veil can be removed only by believing in Christ.
Mark 8:17
- Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he said, "Why are you so worried about having no food? Won't you ever learn or understand? Are your hearts too hard to take it in?
- 'You have eyes--can't you see? You have ears--can't you hear?' Don't you remember anything at all?
Ezekiel 3:9
- I have made you as hard as rock! So don't be afraid of them or fear their angry looks, even though they are such rebels."
Ezekiel 24:3
- Then show these rebels an illustration; give them a message from the Sovereign LORD. Put a pot of water on the fire to boil.
2 Thessalonians 2:10
- He will use every kind of wicked deception to fool those who are on their way to destruction because they refuse to believe the truth that would save them.
- So God will send great deception upon them, and they will believe all these lies.
Jeremiah 9:1
- Oh, that my eyes were a fountain of tears; I would weep forever! I would sob day and night for all my people who have been slaughtered.
- Oh, that I could go away and forget them and live in a shack in the desert, for they are all adulterous and treacherous.
- "My people bend their tongues like bows to shoot lies. They refuse to stand up for the truth. And they only go from bad to worse! They care nothing for me," says the LORD.
- "Beware of your neighbor! Beware of your brother! They all take advantage of one another and spread their slanderous lies.
- They all fool and defraud each other; no one tells the truth. With practiced tongues they tell lies; they wear themselves out with all their sinning.
Isaiah 42:19
- Who in all the world is as blind as my own people, my servant? Who is as deaf as my messengers? Who is as blind as my chosen people, the servant of the LORD?
- You see and understand what is right but refuse to act on it. You hear, but you don't really listen."
Isaiah 30:9
- For these people are stubborn rebels who refuse to pay any attention to the LORD's instructions.
Isaiah 29:9
- Are you amazed and incredulous? Do you not believe it? Then go ahead and be blind if you must. You are stupid, but not from wine! You stagger, but not from beer!
- For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries.
- All these future events are a sealed book to them. When you give it to those who can read, they will say, "We can't read it because it is sealed."
- When you give it to those who cannot read, they will say, "Sorry, we don't know how to read."
Acts 7:51
- "You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? But your ancestors did, and so do you!
- Name one prophet your ancestors didn't persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One--the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.
Isaiah 65:2
- "I opened my arms to my own people all day long, but they have rebelled. They follow their own evil paths and thoughts.
Romans 11:7
- So this is the situation: Most of the Jews have not found the favor of God they are looking for so earnestly. A few have--the ones God has chosen--but the rest were made unresponsive.
- As the Scriptures say, "God has put them into a deep sleep. To this very day he has shut their eyes so they do not see, and closed their ears so they do not hear."
2 Corinthians 4:3
- If the Good News we preach is veiled from anyone, it is a sign that they are perishing.
- Satan, the god of this evil world, has blinded the minds of those who don't believe, so they are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News that is shining upon them. They don't understand the message we preach about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
Ezekiel 17:12
- "Say to these rebels of Israel: Don't you understand the meaning of this riddle of the eagles? I will tell you, says the Sovereign LORD. The king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took away her king and princes, and brought them to Babylon.
Acts 28:26
- 'Go and say to my people, You will hear my words, but you will not understand; you will see what I do, but you will not perceive its meaning.
- For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes--so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them.'
Ezekiel 44:6
- And give these rebels, the people of Israel, this message from the Sovereign LORD: O people of Israel, enough of your disgusting sins!
Daniel 9:5
- But we have sinned and done wrong. We have rebelled against you and scorned your commands and regulations.
- We have refused to listen to your servants the prophets, who spoke your messages to our kings and princes and ancestors and to all the people of the land.
- "Lord, you are in the right; but our faces are covered with shame, just as you see us now. This is true of us all, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far, wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you.
- O LORD, we and our kings, princes, and ancestors are covered with shame because we have sinned against you.
- But the Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.