Discovery Box| (1.00) | Eze 20:39 |
| “‘As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Each of you go and serve your idols, 1 if you will not listen to me. 2 But my holy name will not be profaned 3 again by your sacrifices 4 and your idols. |
| (1.00) | Eze 20:40 |
| For there on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord, all the house of Israel will serve me, all of them 1 in the land. I will accept them there, and there I will seek your contributions and your choice gifts, with all your holy things. |
| (1.00) | Eze 20:41 |
| When I bring you out from the nations and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, I will accept you along with your soothing aroma. I will display my holiness among you in the sight of the nations. |
| (1.00) | Eze 20:45 |
| (21:1) 1 The word of the Lord came to me: |
| (1.00) | Eze 20:46 |
| “Son of man, turn toward 1 the south, 2 and speak out against the south. 3 Prophesy against the open scrub 4 land of the Negev, |
| (1.00) | Eze 20:47 |
| and say to the scrub land of the Negev, ‘Hear the word of the Lord: This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, 1 I am about to start a fire in you, 2 and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The flaming fire will not be extinguished, and the whole surface of the ground from the Negev to the north will be scorched by it. |
| (1.00) | Eze 20:48 |
| And everyone 1 will see that I, the Lord, have burned it; it will not be extinguished.’” |
| (1.00) | Eze 21:1 |
| (21:6) 1 The word of the Lord came to me: |
| (1.00) | Eze 21:2 |
| “Son of man, turn toward 1 Jerusalem 2 and speak out against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel |
| (1.00) | Eze 21:3 |
| and say to them, 1 ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, 2 I am against you. 3 I will draw my sword 4 from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. 5 |
| (1.00) | Eze 21:5 |
| Then everyone will know that I am the Lord, who drew my sword from its sheath – it will not be sheathed again!’ |
| (1.00) | Eze 21:8 |
| The word of the Lord came to me: |
| (1.00) | Eze 21:9 |
| “Son of man, prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Lord says: “‘A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished. |
| (1.00) | Eze 21:10 |
| It is sharpened for slaughter, it is polished to flash like lightning! “‘Should we rejoice in the scepter of my son? No! The sword despises every tree! 1 |
| (1.00) | Eze 21:18 |
| The word of the Lord came to me: |
| (1.00) | Eze 21:22 |
| Into his right hand 1 comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal 2 for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry, 3 to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall. |
| (1.00) | Eze 22:1 |
| The word of the Lord came to me: |
| (1.00) | Eze 22:3 |
| Then say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: O city, who spills blood within herself (which brings on her doom), 1 and who makes herself idols (which results in impurity), |
| (1.00) | Eze 22:4 |
| you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; 1 the end of your years has come. 2 Therefore I will make 3 you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands. |
| (1.00) | Eze 22:9 |
| Slanderous men shed blood within you. 1 Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; 2 they commit obscene acts among you. 3 |
