Ezekiel 11:12
“And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.”
Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.
And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Counter-Arguments
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Cross-References
“But did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.”
“And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.”
“Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.”
“Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:”
“Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.”