Ezekiel 20:31
and do ye pollute yourselves with the firstfruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith ye pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit.
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1 Samuel 28:5And Saul saw the camp of the Philistines, and he was alarmed, and his heart was greatly dismayed.
Job 27:8For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? 1 Will he indeed trust in the Lord and be saved? 1
Proverbs 1:27Yea when dismay suddenly comes upon you, 1 And your overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; 1 And when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, 1 Or when ruin shall come upon you. 1
Isaiah 1:15When ye stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and though ye make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 7:31And they have built the altar of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters with fire; which I did not command them to do, neither did I design it in my heart.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 20:28-33
The Rebellions of Israel. ( b. c. 592.) 27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God ; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made… Read the whole commentary →