Ezekiel 33:26

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?

Stand

Genesis 27:40

Micah 2:1

Zephaniah 3:3

Work

And shall

General references

Numbers 33:56

Bible References

Stand

“By your sword you shall live,
And your brother you shall serve;
But it shall come about when you become restless,
That you will break his yoke from your neck.”

Woe to those who scheme iniquity,
Who work out evil on their beds!

When morning comes, they do it,

For it is in the power of their hands.

Her princes within her are roaring lions,
Her judges are wolves at evening;
They leave nothing for the morning.

Work

oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, but lifts up his eyes to the idols and commits abomination,

But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you

If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and after

Milcom the detestable idol of the Ammonites.

For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles,

having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries.

But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

And shall

For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants.

‘You are therefore to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not spew you out.

“When you become the father of children and children’s children and have remained long in the land, and act corruptly, and make an idol in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord your God so as to provoke Him to anger,

so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

It shall come about that just as all the good words which the Lord your God spoke to you have come upon you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the threats, until He has destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

Therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before Me forever’; but now the Lord declares, ‘Far be it from Me—for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.

But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to tell of My statutes
And to take My covenant in your mouth?

Can a

throne of destruction be allied with You,

One which devises mischief by decree?

General references

And as I plan to do to them, so I will do to you.’”