Bible Cross References
in the land
Ezekiel 13:14-23
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I intend to break down the wall they whitewashed, to shatter it, and to leave the foundation stones bare. It will collapse and kill you all. Then everyone will know that I am the LORD.
15
"The wall and those who covered it with whitewash will feel the force of my anger. Then I will tell you that the wall is gone and so are those who whitewashed it---
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those prophets who assured Jerusalem that all was well, when all was not well!" The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
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The LORD said, "Now, mortal man, look at the women among your people who make up predictions. Denounce them
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and tell them what the Sovereign LORD is saying to them: "You women are doomed! You sew magic wristbands for everyone and make magic scarves for everyone to wear on their heads, so that they can have power over other people's lives. You want to possess the power of life and death over my people and to use it for your own benefit.
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You dishonor me in front of my people in order to get a few handfuls of barley and a few pieces of bread. You kill people who don't deserve to die, and you keep people alive who don't deserve to live. So you tell lies to my people, and they believe you."
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Now this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "I hate the wristbands that you use in your attempt to control life and death. I will rip them off your arms and set free the people that you were controlling.
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I will rip off your scarves and let my people escape from your power once and for all. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
22
"By your lies you discourage good people, whom I do not wish to hurt. You prevent evil people from giving up evil and saving their lives.
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So now your false visions and misleading predictions are over. I am rescuing my people from your power, so that you will know that I am the LORD."
Judges 2:12-19
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They stopped worshiping the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the God who had brought them out of Egypt, and they began to worship other gods, the gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and made the LORD angry.
13
They stopped worshiping the LORD and served the Baals and the Astartes.
14
And so the LORD became furious with Israel and let raiders attack and rob them. He let the enemies all around overpower them, and the Israelites could no longer protect themselves.
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Every time they would go into battle, the LORD was against them, just as he had said he would be. They were in great distress.
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Then the LORD gave the Israelites leaders who saved them from the raiders.
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But the Israelites paid no attention to their leaders. Israel was unfaithful to the LORD and worshiped other gods. Their fathers had obeyed the LORD's commands, but this new generation soon stopped doing so.
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Whenever the LORD gave Israel a leader, the LORD would help that leader and would save the people from their enemies as long as that leader lived. The LORD would have mercy on them because they groaned under their suffering and oppression.
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But when the leader died, the people would return to the old ways and behave worse than the previous generation. They would serve and worship other gods, and stubbornly continue their own evil ways.
2 Kings 21:9
But the people of Judah did not obey the LORD, and Manasseh led them to commit even greater sins than those committed by the nations whom the LORD had driven out of the land as his people advanced.
unto
Ezekiel 23:14-21
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"She sank deeper and deeper in her immorality. She was attracted by the images of high Babylonian officials carved into the wall and painted bright red, with sashes around their waists and fancy turbans on their heads.
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(SEE 23:14)
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As soon as she saw them, she was filled with lust and sent messengers to them in Babylonia.
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The Babylonians came to have sex with her. They used her and defiled her so much that finally she became disgusted with them.
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She exposed herself publicly and let everyone know she was a whore. I was as disgusted with her as I had been with her sister.
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She became more of a prostitute than ever, acting the way she did as a young woman, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
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She was filled with lust for oversexed men who had all the lustfulness of donkeys or stallions."
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(Oholibah, you wanted to repeat the immorality you were guilty of as a young woman in Egypt, where men played with your breasts and you lost your virginity.)