Ezekiel 20:32

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

That which

Lamentations 3:37

We will

1 Samuel 8:5

Jeremiah 44:17

Romans 12:2

To serve

General references

Jeremiah 23:23

Bible References

That which

Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon me and said to me, "Say: This is what the Lord says: 'This is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; I know what goes through your minds.

"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.

There are many plans in a person's mind, but it is the counsel of the Lord which will stand.

(Mem) Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it?

We will

They said to him, "Look, you are old, and your sons don't follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead us, just like all the other nations have."

Instead we will do everything we vowed we would do. We will sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the goddess called the Queen of Heaven just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders previously did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and had no troubles.

Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God -- what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

To serve

There you will worship gods made by human hands -- wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

The Lord will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.

You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)

They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood -- idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.

General references

Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?" the Lord asks.