Ezekiel 20:39

God ironically tells the idolaters to go serve their idols if they will not listen, but warns they shall no longer profane His holy name. He will not tolerate divided, hypocritical worship.

Cross-references · 18

• Isa 1:13–15Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me—your New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations. I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.
• Ezek 43:7and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.
• Hos 4:17Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!
• Ezek 20:25–26I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.
• Judg 10:14Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”
• Isa 66:3Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.
• 2 Kgs 3:13Elisha, however, said to the king of Israel, “What have we to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and of your mother!” “No,” replied the king of Israel, “for it is the LORD who has summoned these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
• Rev 3:15–16I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other!
• Jer 7:9–11Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
• Amos 4:4–5“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.
• Ezek 23:37–39For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.
• 2 Th 2:11For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,
• Jer 44:25–26This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Go ahead, then, do what you have promised! Keep your vows!
• Rom 1:24–28Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
• Matt 6:24No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
• Ps 81:12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
• Zeph 1:4–5“I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all who dwell in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the idolatrous and pagan priests—
• Prov 21:27The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!

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