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Ezekiel 14:7 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “‘“For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me, I the LORD will answer him by myself. "

Ezekiel 14:7

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5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”’

6 “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations.

7 “‘“For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me, I the LORD will answer him by myself.

8 I will set my face against that man and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

9 “‘“If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the LORD, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.

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From This Chapter

Ezekiel 14:1

"Then some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me."

Ezekiel 14:2

"The LORD’s word came to me, saying,"

Ezekiel 14:3

"“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?"

Ezekiel 14:4

"Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him there according to the multitude of his idols,"

Ezekiel 14:5

"that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”’"

Ezekiel 14:6

"“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations."

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