Ezekiel 11:19

I will put a new way of thinking [IDM] within you. I will cause you to no longer be stubborn [IDM], and I will enable you to obey me completely [IDM].

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

In Context

18When you return to your country, you will get rid of all the vile statues of gods and detestable idols.

20When I do that, you will carefully obey all my laws [DOU]. You will be my people, and I will be your God.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 30:6Yahweh our God will change [MET] your inner beings, with the result that you will love him more than you love anything else and want to do only what he wants you to do. And then you will continue to live in that land.

2 Chronicles 30:12Also in Judah God motivated the people to be united in wanting to do what Yahweh wanted them to do, which is what the king and his officials had told them to do in the message that they sent.

Isaiah 48:4I knew that you people are very stubborn; I knew that your heads are [MET] as hard as iron or brass [DOU].

Jeremiah 31:33This is what I, Yahweh, say: ‘This is the new agreement that I will make with the people of Israel some day: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their inner beings. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Ezekiel 18:31Get rid of all your wicked behavior, and get a new way of thinking [IDM, DOU]. You Israeli people [MTY], ◄do you really want to be executed for your sins?/you act as though you want to be executed for your sins► [RHQ].

Zephaniah 3:9When that happens, I will cause all people [MTY] to be changed and enable them to speak only what is ◄pure/pleasing to me►, in order that everyone can worship me [MTY] and unitedly/together serve me [MTY].

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 11:15-22

Judgments Predicted; Sufferings and Hopes of Pious Captives. ( b. c. 593.) 14 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the Lord : unto us is this land given in possession. 16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God ; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries,… Read the whole commentary →

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