Ezekiel 20:39

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Summary

As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

Go ye

But

General references

Exodus 20:23

Bible References

Go ye

I myself, indeed, suffered them to walk in statutes which were not good, - And regulations in which they could not live.

Go and make outcry unto the gods whom ye have chosen, - they, must save you, in the time of your tribulation.

And Elisha said unto the king of Israel - What have I and thou in common? get thee unto the prophets of thy father, and unto the prophets of thy mother. But the king of Israel said to him - Nay! for Yahweh hath called together these three kings, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

So then I let them go on in the stubbornness of their own heart, - They might walk in their own counsels!

Mated with idols, is Ephraim, let him alone.

Enter ye Bethel, and transgress, At Gilgal, cause transgression, to abound, - Yea, carry in, every morning, your sacrifices, every three days, your tithes;

Wherefore God gave them up in the covetings of their hearts unto impurity, so as to be dishonouring their bodies among them, -

And, for this cause, God sendeth them an inworking of error, to the end they should believe in the falsehood, -

But

For they have committed adultery. And blood, is one their hands, Yea with their manufactured gods, have they committed adultery. And even their own children whom they bare unto me, have they set apart for them to be devoured.

The sacrifice of the lawless, is an abomination, how much more, when, with wickedness, he bringeth it in!

Ye shall not again bring in an empty, present, Incense, an abomination, is that unto me! New moon, and sabbath calling an assembly - I cannot endure, iniquity and sacred festival!

He that slaughtereth an ox, is as one who smiteth a man, He that sacrificeth a lamb, is as one who beheadeth a dog, he that causeth a meal-offering to ascend, offereth it with the blood of swine, He that maketh a memorial of frankincense, is as one who blesseth iniquity: They indeed, have chosen their own ways, And in their own abominations, their soul hath found delight;

Are ye to steal, commit murder and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, - and walk after other gods whom ye have not known;

And I will stretch out my hand - over Judah, and over all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, - and will cut off out of this place, the name of Baal, the name of the priestlings, with the priests;

No one, unto two masters, can be in service; for either, the one, he will hate, and, the other ,love, or, one, he will hold to, and, the other, despise: Ye cannot be in service, unto God, and, unto Riches.

I know thy works; - that neither, cold, art thou, nor hot: I would that, cold, thou hadst been, or hot.

General references

Ye shall not make aught beside me, - neither gods of silver, nor gods of gold, shall ye make to yourselves.