Ezekiel 2:3 Cross References
Ezekiel 2:3
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 3:25
- Let us now lie down in shame and dishonor, for we and our ancestors have always sinned against the LORD our God. We have never obeyed him."
1 Samuel 8:7
- "Do as they say," the LORD replied, "for it is me they are rejecting, not you. They don't want me to be their king any longer.
- Ever since I brought them from Egypt they have continually forsaken me and followed other gods. And now they are giving you the same treatment.
Deuteronomy 9:24
- Yes, you have been rebelling against the LORD as long as I have known you.
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.
Deuteronomy 9:27
- Overlook the stubbornness and sin of these people, but remember instead your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Jeremiah 7:2
- "Go to the entrance of the LORD's Temple, and give this message to the people: `O Judah, listen to this message from the LORD! Listen to it, all of you who worship here!
Numbers 32:13
- "The LORD was furious with Israel and made them wander in the wilderness for forty years until the whole generation that sinned against him had died.
- But here you are, a brood of sinners, doing exactly the same thing! You are making the LORD even angrier with Israel.
Romans 10:15
- And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"
Ezekiel 3:4
- Then he said, "Son of man, go to the people of Israel with my messages.
- I am not sending you to some foreign people whose language you cannot understand.
- No, I am not sending you to people with strange and difficult speech. If I did, they would listen!
- I am sending you to the people of Israel, but they won't listen to you any more than they listen to me! For the whole lot of them are hard-hearted and stubborn.
- But look, I have made you as hard and stubborn as they are.
2 Kings 17:17
- They even sacrificed their own sons and daughters in the fire. They consulted fortune-tellers and used sorcery and sold themselves to evil, arousing the LORD's anger.
- And because the LORD was angry, he swept them from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained in the land.
- But even the people of Judah refused to obey the commands of the LORD their God. They walked down the same evil paths that Israel had established.
- So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He punished them by handing them over to their attackers until they were destroyed.
Psalms 106:32
- At Meribah, too, they angered the LORD, causing Moses serious trouble.
- They made Moses angry, and he spoke foolishly.
- Israel failed to destroy the nations in the land, as the LORD had told them to.
- Instead, they mingled among the pagans and adopted their evil customs.
- They worshiped their idols, and this led to their downfall.
Jeremiah 16:11
- Tell them that this is the LORD's reply: It is because your ancestors were unfaithful to me. They worshiped other gods and served them. They abandoned me. They did not keep my law.
- And you are even worse than your ancestors! You stubbornly follow your own evil desires and refuse to listen to me.
Jeremiah 25:3
- "For the past twenty-three years--from the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, until now--the LORD has been giving me his messages. I have faithfully passed them on to you, but you have not listened.
- "Again and again, the LORD has sent you his prophets, but you have not listened or even tried to hear.
- Each time the message was this: `Turn from the evil road you are traveling and from the evil things you are doing. Only then will I let you live in this land that the LORD gave to you and your ancestors forever.
- Do not make me angry by worshiping the idols you have made. Then I will not harm you.'
- "But you would not listen to me," says the LORD. "You made me furious by worshiping your idols, bringing on yourselves all the disasters you now suffer.
Nehemiah 9:33
- Every time you punished us you were being just. We have sinned greatly, and you gave us only what we deserved.
- Our kings, princes, priests, and ancestors did not obey your law or listen to your commands and solemn warnings.
- Even while they had their own kingdom, they did not serve you even though you showered your goodness on them. You gave them a large, fertile land, but they refused to turn from their wickedness.
Luke 24:47
- With my authority, take this message of repentance to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem: 'There is forgiveness of sins for all who turn to me.'
- You are witnesses of all these things.
Ezekiel 20:1
- On August 14, during the seventh year of King Jehoiachin's captivity, some of the leaders of Israel came to request a message from the LORD. They sat down in front of me to wait for his reply.
- Then this message came to me from the LORD:
- "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!
- "Son of man, bring judgment against them and condemn them. Make them realize how loathsome the actions of their ancestors really were.
- Give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: When I chose Israel and revealed myself to her in Egypt, I swore that I, the LORD, would be her God.
Jeremiah 1:7
- "Don't say that," the LORD replied, "for you must go wherever I send you and say whatever I tell you.
2 Chronicles 36:15
- The LORD, the God of their ancestors, repeatedly sent his prophets to warn them, for he had compassion on his people and his Temple.
- But the people mocked these messengers of God and despised their words. They scoffed at the prophets until the LORD's anger could no longer be restrained and there was no remedy.
Ezekiel 23:1
- This message came to me from the LORD:
- "Son of man, once there were two sisters who were daughters of the same mother.
- They became prostitutes in Egypt. Even as young girls, they allowed themselves to be fondled and caressed.
- The older girl was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. I married them, and they bore me sons and daughters. I am speaking of Samaria and Jerusalem, for Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
- "Then Oholah lusted after other lovers instead of me, and she gave her love to the Assyrians, her neighbors.
Jeremiah 36:2
- "Get a scroll, and write down all my messages against Israel, Judah, and the other nations. Begin with the first message back in the days of Josiah, and write down every message you have given, right up to the present time.
John 20:21
- He spoke to them again and said, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you."
- Then he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
Nehemiah 9:16
- But our ancestors were a proud and stubborn lot, and they refused to obey your commands.
- "They refused to listen and did not remember the miracles you had done for them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to take them back to their slavery in Egypt! But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to become angry, and full of unfailing love and mercy. You did not abandon them,
- even though they made an idol shaped like a calf and said, 'This is your god who brought you out of Egypt!' They sinned and committed terrible blasphemies.
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!
Psalms 106:28
- Then our ancestors joined in the worship of Baal at Peor; they even ate sacrifices offered to the dead!
Ezekiel 16:1
- Then another message came to me from the LORD:
- "Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her loathsome sins.
- Give her this message from the Sovereign LORD: You are nothing but a Canaanite! Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite!
- When you were born, no one cared about you. Your umbilical cord was left uncut, and you were never washed, rubbed with salt, and dressed in warm clothing.
- No one had the slightest interest in you; no one pitied you or cared for you. On the day you were born, you were dumped in a field and left to die, unwanted.
Jeremiah 26:2
- The LORD said, "Stand out in front of the Temple of the LORD, and make an announcement to the people who have come there to worship from all over Judah. Give them my entire message; include every word.
- Perhaps they will listen and turn from their evil ways. Then I will be able to withhold the disaster I am ready to pour out on them because of their sins.
- "Say to them, `This is what the LORD says: If you will not listen to me and obey the law I have given you,
- and if you will not listen to my servants, the prophets--for I sent them again and again to warn you, but you would not listen to them--
- then I will destroy this Temple as I destroyed Shiloh, the place where the Tabernacle was located. And I will make Jerusalem an object of cursing in every nation on earth.'"
Mark 12:2
- At grape-picking time he sent one of his servants to collect his share of the crop.
- But the farmers grabbed the servant, beat him up, and sent him back empty-handed.
- "The owner then sent another servant, but they beat him over the head and treated him shamefully.
- The next servant he sent was killed. Others who were sent were either beaten or killed,
Ezra 9:7
- Our whole history has been one of great sin. That is why we and our kings and our priests have been at the mercy of the pagan kings of the land. We have been killed, captured, robbed, and disgraced, just as we are today.
Nehemiah 9:26
- "But despite all this, they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They threw away your law, they killed the prophets who encouraged them to return to you, and they committed terrible blasphemies.
Psalms 106:16
- The people in the camp were jealous of Moses and envious of Aaron, the LORD's holy priest.
- Because of this, the earth opened up; it swallowed Dathan and buried Abiram and the other rebels.
- Fire fell upon their followers; a flame consumed the wicked.
- The people made a calf at Mount Sinai; they bowed before an image made of gold.
- They traded their glorious God for a statue of a grass-eating ox!
Jeremiah 44:21
- "Do you think the LORD did not know that you and your ancestors, your kings and officials, and all the people were burning incense to idols in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Numbers 20:10
- Then he and Aaron summoned the people to come and gather at the rock. "Listen, you rebels!" he shouted. "Must we bring you water from this rock?"
Isaiah 6:8
- Then I heard the Lord asking, "Whom should I send as a messenger to my people? Who will go for us?" And I said, "Lord, I'll go! Send me."
- 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."