Ezekiel 20:28 Cross References
Ezekiel 20:28
28: for when I brought them into the land I had promised them, they offered sacrifices and incense on every high hill and under every green tree they saw! They roused my fury as they offered up sacrifices to their gods. They brought their perfumes and incense and poured out their drink offerings to them!
Ezekiel 6:13
- When their dead lie scattered among their idols and altars, on every hill and mountain and under every green tree and great oak where they offered incense to their gods, then they will know that I alone am the LORD.
Nehemiah 9:22
- "Then you helped our ancestors conquer great kingdoms and many nations, and you placed your people in every corner of the land. They completely took over the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan.
- You made their descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and brought them into the land you had promised to their ancestors.
- They went in and took possession of the land. You subdued whole nations before them. Even the kings and the Canaanites, who inhabited the land, were powerless! Your people could deal with them as they pleased.
- Our ancestors captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took over houses full of good things, with cisterns already dug and vineyards and olive groves and orchards in abundance. So they ate until they were full and grew fat and enjoyed themselves in all your blessings.
- "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.
Jeremiah 2:7
- "And when I brought you into a fruitful land to enjoy its bounty and goodness, you defiled my land and corrupted the inheritance I had promised you.
Jeremiah 3:6
- During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what fickle Israel does? Like a wife who commits adultery, Israel has worshiped other gods on every hill and under every green tree.
Isaiah 57:5
- You worship your idols with great passion beneath every green tree. You slaughter your children as human sacrifices down in the valleys, under overhanging rocks.
- Your gods are the smooth stones in the valleys. You worship them with drink offerings and grain offerings. They, not I, are your inheritance. Does all this make me happy?
- You have committed adultery on the mountaintops by worshiping idols there, and so you have been unfaithful to me.
Joshua 23:14
- "Soon I will die, going the way of all the earth. Deep in your hearts you know that every promise of the LORD your God has come true. Not a single one has failed!
Psalms 78:55
- He drove out the nations before them; he gave them their inheritance by lot. He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes.
- Yet though he did all this for them, they continued to test his patience. They rebelled against the Most High and refused to follow his decrees.
- They turned back and were as faithless as their parents had been. They were as useless as a crooked bow.
- They made God angry by building altars to other gods; they made him jealous with their idols.
Ezekiel 16:19
- Imagine it! You set before them as a lovely sacrifice the fine flour and oil and honey I had given you, says the Sovereign LORD.
Joshua 23:3
- You have seen everything the LORD your God has done for you during my lifetime. The LORD your God has fought for you against your enemies.
- I have allotted to you as an inheritance all the land of the nations yet unconquered, as well as the land of those we have already conquered--from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
Psalms 105:8
- He always stands by his covenant--the commitment he made to a thousand generations.
- This is the covenant he made with Abraham and the oath he swore to Isaac.
- He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to the people of Israel as a never-ending treaty:
- "I will give you the land of Canaan as your special possession."
Ezekiel 20:15
- But I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful place on earth.
Genesis 15:18
- So the LORD made a covenant with Abram that day and said, "I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River--
- the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
- Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
- Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."
Ezekiel 20:6
- I promised that I would bring her and her descendants out of Egypt to a land I had discovered and explored for them--a good land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands anywhere.
Genesis 26:3
- Do as I say, and stay here in this land. If you do, I will be with you and bless you. I will give all this land to you and your descendants, just as I solemnly promised Abraham, your father.
- I will cause your descendants to become as numerous as the stars, and I will give them all these lands. And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.