Ezekiel 44:12 Cross References - Rotherham

¹² Because they used to wait upon them, before their manufactured gods, and became to the house of Israel a stumbling–block of iniquity, For this cause, have I lifted up my hand concerning them, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity;

⁴⁰ For I lift up unto the heavens my hand,––And say, Living, am, I, unto times age–abiding: ⁴¹ If I whet my flashing sword, And my hand take hold on justice, I will return vengeance unto mine adversaries, And, them who hate me, will I requite: ⁴² I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And, my sword, shall devour flesh,––With, the blood of the slain, and the captive, With [the flesh of] the chief leader of the foe.

²⁹ Wherefore have ye been kicking at my sacrifices, and my presents, which I commanded, to serve for a home,––and shouldest have honoured thy sons more than me: fattening yourselves, with the first of every present of Israel, before me? ³⁰ Hence, the oracle of Yahweh God of Israel, I, said, that, thy house, and the house of thy father, should go to and fro in my presence, unto times age–abiding: But, now, (is the oracle of Yahweh)––Be it far from me! For, them who honour me, will I honour, but, they who despise me, shall be lightly esteemed.

¹⁰ So then King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, in Damascus, and saw the altar which was in Damascus,––and King Ahaz, sent unto Urijah the priest, a likeness of the altar, and a model thereof, according to all the workmanship thereof; ¹¹ and Urijah the priest built an altar,––according to all that King Ahaz sent from Damascus, so, did Urijah the priest make it, by the time King Ahaz came from Damascus. ¹² And, when the king came from Damascus, then the king saw the altar,––so the king drew near unto the altar, and caused offerings to ascend thereupon. ¹³ And he made perfume with his ascending–sacrifice, and with his meal–offering, and poured out his drink–offering,––and dashed the blood of the peace–offerings which he had, upon the altar. ¹⁴ And, the altar of bronze which was before Yahweh, he brought away from the forefront of the house, from between the altar, and the house of Yahweh,––and put it at the side of the altar northward. ¹⁵ And King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying––Upon the great altar, make thou perfume with the ascending–sacrifice of the morning, and with the meal–offering of the evening, and with the ascending–sacrifice of the king and with his meal–offering, and with the ascending–sacrifice of all the people of the land, and their meal–offering and their drink–offering, and, all the blood of the ascending–offering, and all the blood of the [peace] offering, thereupon, shalt thou dash,––but, the altar of bronze, shall be for me to inquire [into]. ¹⁶ So Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.

²⁶ So he lifted up his hand unto them, that he would let them fall in the desert;

¹⁶ And, they who should have led this people forward, have been causing them to stray,––And, they who are led of them, are destroyed,

³ Son of man, These men, have brought up their manufactured gods, upon their hear, And, their stumbling–block of iniquity, have they set straight before their face,––Shall I be, at all enquired of, by them? ⁴ Therefore, speak unto them and say unto them, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Any man whatsoever of the house of Israel, Who shall bring up his manufactured gods upon his heart, And set, his stumbling–block of iniquity, straight before his face, And then come in unto the prophet, I, Yahweh, have myself answered him, thereby, By the multitude of his manufactured gods:

⁶ In that day, lifted I up my hand to them, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt,––into a land that I had looked out for them, flowing with milk and honey, The beauty, it was, of all lands.

¹⁵ Yet, even I, lifted up my hand to them, in the desert,––That I would not bring them into the land which I had given to them, flowing with milk and honey, The beauty, it was, of all lands:

²³ Even, I, lifted up my hand to them, in the desert,––That I would disperse them throughout the nations, And scatter them throughout the lands;

²⁸ When I brought them into the land, as to which I had lifted up mine hand to give it them, then beheld they every high hill and every tangled tree, And offered, there, their sacrifices, And presented, there, their provoking, gift, And placed, there, their satisfying, odour, And poured out, there, their drink–offerings.

¹⁰ But, as for the Levites, Who went far from me, when Israel went astray, Who went astray from me, after their manufactured gods, Therefore shall they bear their iniquity.

¹³ So then they shall not come near unto me, To minister as priests unto me, Nor come near unto any of my holy things, As regardeth things most holy,––But they shall bear their rebuke, and their abominations which they have committed;

⁶ My people, are destroyed, for lack of knowledge,––Because, thou, hast rejected knowledge, therefore will I reject thee from ministering as priest unto me, and, because thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also, will forget thy children.

¹ Hear ye this––O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, and ye, House of the King, give ear, for, to you, pertaineth the sentence,––for, a snare, have ye been to Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

⁷ Sworn hath Yahweh, by the Excellency of Jacob,––Surely I will never forget any of their doings!

⁸ But, ye, have departed out of the way, ye have caused multitudes to stumble at the deliverance,–– ye have violated the covenant of Levi, saith Yahweh of hosts. ⁹ Therefore, I also, will suffer you to be despised and of no account unto all the people,––in proportion as none of you have been keeping my ways, but have had respect to persons, in giving your deliverance.

⁵ And, the messenger, whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the land, lifted up his right hand unto heaven, ⁶ and sware, by him that liveth unto the ages of ages, who created heaven, and the things that are therein, and the earth, and the things that are therein, [and the sea, and the things that are therein,] Delay, no longer, shall there be;