Ezekiel 14:1-11
Idolatrous Elders Condemned
1Then certain of the aelders of Israel came to me band sat before me. 2And the word of the Lord came to me: 3 c“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set dthe stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. eShould I indeed let myself be consulted by them? 4Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, fI the Lord will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols, 5 gthat I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, hwho are all estranged from me through their idols.6“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: iRepent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 7For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, jwho separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, kI the Lord will answer him myself. 8And lI will set my face against that man; I mwill make him a sign and a byword nand cut him off from the midst of my people, oand you shall know that I am the Lord. 9And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, pI, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10And they shall bear their punishment ▼
▼Or iniquity; three times in this verse
—the punishment of the prophet and the punishment of the inquirer shall be alike— 11that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, nor rdefile themselves anymore with all their transgressions, sbut that they may be my people and I may be their God, declares the Lord God.”
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