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 3:25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”
• 1 Sam 8:7–8Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.
• Dan 9:5–13we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;
• Deut 9:24You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.
• Rom 10:15And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
• Deut 9:27Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
• Ezra 9:7Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
• Jer 16:11–12Then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh, ‘and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
• Ezek 20:1–49In the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.
• Ezek 23:1–49Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
• Luke 24:47–48and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• Acts 7:51“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
• Num 32:13–14Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in Yahweh’s sight, was consumed.
• Jer 26:2–6“Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.
• Neh 9:16–18“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
• Num 20:10Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”
• Ezek 3:4–8He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.
• Ps 106:32–40They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;
• Jer 36:2“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
• Neh 9:26“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
• Jer 44:21“The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn’t Yahweh remember them, and didn’t it come into his mind?
• Ps 106:16–21They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.
• Ezek 16:1–63Again Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
• Mark 12:2–5When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
• Jer 7:2“Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.’”
• Jer 1:7But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.
• John 20:21–22Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
• Jer 25:3–7From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, Yahweh’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.
• Ps 106:28They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
• Isa 6:8–10I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”
• Neh 9:33–35However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
• 2 Kgs 17:17–20They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
• 2 Chr 36:15–16Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place;

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