Ezekiel 20:31

When you sacrifice your children in the fire, you are still continuing to make yourselves unacceptable to me by worshiping your many idols. You Israeli people, should I allow you to inquire what I want you to do? I, Yahweh the Lord, say that as surely as I am alive, I will not answer if you inquire.'

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.

In Context

30Therefore, say this to the Israeli people [MTY]: 'This is what Yahweh the Lord says: “You are going to [RHQ] defile yourselves like your ancestors did by strongly desiring to worship their disgusting statues of idols.

32You say, ‘We want to be like the other nations, like the other people-groups in the world. We want to worship idols made of wood and stone like they do.’ But what you want will never happen.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 28:5When Saul saw the army of Philistia, he became so afraid that his heart pounded/shook.

Job 27:8When it is time for God to get rid of godless/wicked people and to cause them to die, there is absolutely nothing good [RHQ] that they can confidently expect to happen to them.

Psalms 66:18If I had ignored the sins that I had committed, the Lord would not have paid any attention to me.

Proverbs 1:27When calamities strike you like a big storm, when disasters hit you like a violent wind, when all kinds of things distress you and give you trouble, I will ridicule you!

Isaiah 1:15So, when you lift up your hands when you pray to me, I will not even look at you. Even if you pray to me very frequently, I will not listen to you, because it is as though your hands are covered with the blood of people whom you have killed.

Jeremiah 7:31They have built altars at Topheth in Ben-Hinnom Valley outside Jerusalem, and they sacrifice their sons and daughters on those altars. I never commanded them to do that; I never even thought that anyone would do that.

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 →

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