Ezekiel 12:16
But a small number of them I will keep from the sword, from the need of food, and from disease, so that they may make clear all their disgusting ways among the nations where they come; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.
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17Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Cross References
Leviticus 26:40And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;
1 Kings 9:6But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship:
Isaiah 1:9If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.
Isaiah 10:19And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing.
Isaiah 24:13For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.
Jeremiah 4:27For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 12:2-17
Zedekiah's Captivity Foretold. ( b. c. 593.) 1 The word of the Lord also came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house. 3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house. 4 Then shalt thou… Read the whole commentary →