Ezekiel 20:31

Because they still defile themselves with idols, even child sacrifice, God again refuses to be inquired of by them. Their unrepentant idolatry forfeits any word of guidance.

Cross-references · 20

• Ezek 20:26and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.”’
• Jer 7:31They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.
• Ps 106:37–39Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
• Prov 28:9He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
• Ezek 16:20“‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,
• Ezek 20:3“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will not be inquired of by you.”’
• Deut 18:10–12There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
• Prov 1:27–28when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.
• Jas 4:1–3Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
• Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
• 2 Kgs 3:13–14Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother.” The king of Israel said to him, “No, for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
• 1 Sam 28:5–6When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.
• Ezek 14:3–4“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?
• Matt 25:11–12Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’
• Isa 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
• Job 27:8For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
• Jer 14:12When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.”
• Ps 66:18If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
• Jer 19:5and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn’t command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:
• Zech 7:13It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

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