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

And the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, "Say, 'thus says Yahweh: "This is what you think, house of Israel, and I myself know them, the thoughts of your spirit.

" 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{And then} on that day, things will come up on your mind, and you will devise evil plans.

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought from afar.

Many plans [are] in the heart of a man, but the purpose of Yahweh will be established.

{Who can speak} and it will happen [if] the Lord has not commanded [it]?

We will

They said to him, "Look, you are old and your sons do not follow in your ways. So then appoint a king for us to judge us, like all the nations.

But certainly we will do {everything} that went out from our mouths, to make smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out to her libations just as we did, we, and our ancestors, our kings, and our officials, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, [for] then {we had enough to eat}, and we were well-off, and we did not see disaster.

And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what [is] the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

To serve

And you will there serve gods {made by human hands}, [of] wood and stone, [gods] that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell.

Yahweh will bring you and your king whom you set up over you to a nation that you or your ancestors have not known, and there you will serve other gods [of] wood and stone.

And you have seen their detestable things and their idols of wood and stone, silver, and gold that [were] among them,

to {set} their gods in the fire, for they [were] not gods, but [the] work of human hands, wood and stone, and they destroyed them.

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

And the rest of humanity who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, {in order not to worship} the demons and the gold and silver and bronze and stone and wooden idols, which are able neither to see nor to hear nor to walk,

General references

[Am] I a God from near," {declares} Yahweh, "and not a God from far?