Ezekiel 20:31
When you offer up your gifts—when you cause your sons to pass through the fire—to this day you defile yourselves with all your idols. So why should I let you seek me, house of Israel? As I live—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—I will not allow you to seek me.
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1 Samuel 28:5When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled very much.
Job 27:8For what is the hope of a godless man when God cuts him off, 1 when God takes away his life? 1
Psalms 66:18If I had seen sin within my heart, 1 the Lord would not have listened to me. 1
Proverbs 1:27when your fearful dread comes like a storm 1 and disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, 1 when distress and anguish come upon you. 1
Isaiah 1:15So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; 1 even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen; 1 your hands are full of blood. 1
Jeremiah 7:31Then they built the high place of Topheth that is in the Valley of Ben Hinnom. They did this to burn their sons and daughters in fire—something that I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.
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 →