Whether then indeed they shall hear or fear (for they are a provoking house,) yet they shall know that you are a prophet in the midst of them.

And you, son of man, hear Him that speaks to you; be not provoking, as the provoking house: open your mouth, and eat what I give you.

And it shall be continually stronger than a rock- be not afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their faces, because they are a provoking house.

Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to you, What are you doing?

Hear, O heaven, and hearken, O earth! For the Lord has spoken, [saying], I have begotten and reared up children, but they have rebelled against Me.

And the people said to me, Will you not tell us what these things are that you do?

And it shall come to pass, if your sons say to you, What is this service?

And it shall come to pass, when your son shall ask you at a future time, saying, What are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God has commanded us?

that these may be to you continually for an appointed sign, that when your son asks you in the future, saying, What are these stones to us?

saying, When your sons ask you, saying, What are these stones?

Jesus said to them, "Have you understood all these things?" They said to Him, "Yes, Lord."

So Jesus said, "Are you also still without understanding?

Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach, and is cast out into a latrine?

How is it you do not perceive that I did not speak to you about bread, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?"

And He said to them, "Do you not know this parable? How then will you know all the parables?

But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them so that they did not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask Him about this saying.

And Phillip, running up to it, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, "Indeed, do you know what you are reading?"

and you shall say, Thus says the Lord: A great eagle with large wings, spreading them out very far, with many claws, which has the design of entering into Lebanon- and he took the choice [branches] of the cedar;

On the fifth day of the month; this was the fifth year of the captivity of King Jehoiachin.

At that time Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

And Jehoiachin king of Judah came forth to the king of Babylon, he and his servants, and his mother, and his princes, and his eunuchs; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

And he carried away [the inhabitants of] Jerusalem, and all the captains, and the mighty men, taking captive ten thousand prisoners, and every craftsmen and smith; and only the poor of the land were left.

And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and one thousand craftsmen and smiths; all [were] mighty [men] fit for war; and the king of Babylon carried them captive to Babylon.

Jeconiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

And at the turn of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his father's brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

[As] I live, says the Lord, though Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet ring upon My right hand, yet would I pluck you off;

And I will cast you out, and your mother that bore you, into a land where you were not born; and there you shall die.

Jeconiah is dishonored as a good for nothing vessel; for he is thrown out and cast forth into a land which he knew not.

They shall also take of your children whom you shall beget; and they shall make them eunuchs in the house of the king of the Babylonians.

And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year after that Jehoiakim king of Judah had been carried away captive, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fourth [day] of the month, [that] Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the year in which he began to reign, raised the head of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and shaved him, and brought him out of the house where he was kept,

and changed his prison garments. And he ate bread continually before him all the days that he lived.