Ezekiel 24:3

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Summary

And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:

Utter

Luke 8:10

The rebellious

Set

Ezekiel 24:6

Ezekiel 11:3

Jeremiah 50:13

Bible References

Utter

"Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;

and say: What was your mother? A lioness! Among lions she crouched; in the midst of young lions she reared her cubs.

Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! They are saying of me, 'Is he not a maker of parables?'"

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,

In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, "We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields."

And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.

he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

The rebellious

And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.

Like emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house."

"Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house.

"Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: "Childrenhave I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.

"Ah, stubborn children," declares the LORD, "who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

Set

"Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.

who say, 'The time is not near to build houses. This city is the cauldron, and we are the meat.'

Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited but shall be an utter desolation; everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled, and hiss because of all her wounds.