Ezekiel 20:31

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Summary

For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

Ye offer

Jeremiah 19:5

And shall

Bible References

Ye offer

and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the Lord.”’

There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,

They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,

They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, and it did not come into My mind.

and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My mind;

And shall

“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Do you come to inquire of Me? As I live,” declares the Lord God, “I will not be inquired of by you.”’

“Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and have put right before their faces the stumbling block of their iniquity. Should I be consulted by them at all?

When Saul saw the camp of the Philistines, he was afraid and his heart trembled greatly.

Now Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What do I have to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother.” And the king of Israel said to him, “No, for the Lord has called these three kings together to give them into the hand of Moab.”

“For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off,
When God requires his life?

If I

regard wickedness in my heart,

The Lord will not hear;

When your dread comes like a storm
And your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
When distress and anguish come upon you.

He who turns away his ear from listening to the law,
Even his prayer is an abomination.

“So when you spread out your hands in prayer,

I will hide My eyes from you;

Yes, even though you multiply prayers,
I will not listen.

Your hands are covered with blood.

When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather I am going to make an end of them by the sword, famine and pestilence.”

And just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen,” says the Lord of hosts;

Later the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open up for us.’

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?