Ezekiel 2:3

God sends Ezekiel to Israel, a nation of rebels who have long transgressed. His mission addresses a stubbornly sinful people.

Cross-references · 33

• Jer 3:25We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
• 1 Sam 8:7–8And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
• Dan 9:5–13We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
• Deut 9:24Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
• Rom 10:15And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
• Deut 9:27Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
• Ezra 9:7Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
• Jer 16:11–12Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
• Ezek 20:1–49And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
• Ezek 23:1–49The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
• Luke 24:47–48And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• Acts 7:51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
• Num 32:13–14And the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
• Jer 26:2–6Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD’s house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD’s house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
• Neh 9:16–18But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
• Num 20:10And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
• Ezek 3:4–8And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
• Ps 106:32–40They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
• Jer 36:2Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
• Neh 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
• Jer 44:21The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?
• Ps 106:16–21They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
• Ezek 16:1–63Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
• Mark 12:2–5And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
• Jer 7:2Stand in the gate of the LORD’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
• Jer 1:7But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
• John 20:21–22Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
• Jer 25:3–7From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
• Ps 106:28They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
• Isa 6:8–10Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
• Neh 9:33–35Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
• 2 Kgs 17:17–20And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
• 2 Chr 36:15–16And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

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