Ezekiel 24:3 Cross References - Thomson

³ and speak a parable against that provoking family, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, Set on the cauldron and pour water into it;

² I will open my mouth with parables; I will utter dark sayings of old;

² Hearken, heaven! and hear earth! what the Lord hath spoken. "I have begotten children and brought them up; and they have rebelled against me.

¹ "AH rebellious children! saith the Lord, you have formed a design, but not by me: and thou hast made convenants, but not by my spirit, that you may add sins to sins.

⁹ Because this is a rebellious people; lying children, who would not hear the law of God,

¹⁰ But they rebelled and provoked his holy spirit; so he became their enemy. He fought against them;

¹³ Again a word of the Lord came to me a second time saying: "What dost thou see?" And I said, "A kettle; its bottom glowing hot; and its mouth from the north.

¹³ a desert because of the wrath of the Lord, she shall not be inhabited; but shall be entirely a desolation. Sorrow will cover the countenance of all who travel through Babylon; and at all their calamity they will express pity. ¹⁴ Set yourselves in array all around against Babylon. All ye who bend the bow shoot at her: spare not your arrows,

³ Son of man, I am about to send thee to the house of Israel, to them who are provoking me; who have provoked me, both they and their fathers even to this day.

⁶ And thou son of man, be not afraid of them nor daunted at their presence. Because they will sting thee and rise up against thee on all sides and thou dwellest in the midst of scorpions, be not afraid of their words nor terrified at their looks; because they are a provoking house,

⁸ Because they are a provoking house, thou therefore, son of man, hear him who is speaking to thee and be not thou rebellious like this rebellious house. Open thy mouth and eat what I give thee.

⁹ and it shall be on all occasions firmer than a rock. Be not afraid of them nor daunted at their countenance, because they are a provoking house.

³ who say, Are not the houses lately rebuilt? This is the cauldron, but we are the flesh.

⁷ therefore thus saith the Lord, your dead men whom you have slain in the midst of it, they are the flesh and it is the cauldron. As for you I will drag you out of the midst of it.

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² Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of these unrighteous men, who have eyes to see but do not see; and have ears to hear, but do not hear. Because they are a rebellious house,

²⁵ for I the Lord will speak my words; I will speak and perform, and no more put off to a distant time; for in these your days, rebellious house, I will speak a word and perform it, saith the Lord.

² Son of man, relate a fable and speak a parable to the house of Israel

¹² Say, When the king of Babylon hath come to Jerusalem, and shall take the king thereof and the chiefs thereof, and hath caused them to be brought to him to Babylon;

² and thou shalt say, What was thy mother? She was a lioness among lions. In the midst of lions she multiplied her young. ³ And one of her young lions sallied forth; he became a lion and learned to prowl. He devoured men ⁴ and the nations heard of him; in their trap he was taken and carried in a cage to the land of Egypt. ⁵ When she saw that her main support was removed from her, was lost; she took another of her young lions and made him lion. ⁶ And he roamed about among lions. He became a lion and learned to seize prey. He devoured men ⁷ and prowled with fierceness, and made their cities a desolation and laid waste the land, and the fulness thereof by the sound of his roaring. ⁸ Then the nations set upon him from the countries around: they spread their nets for him; in their trap he was taken. ⁹ So they chained him and in a cage he came to the king of Babylon, who put him in prison that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Israel. ¹⁰ Thy mother was like a vine or a flowery pomegranate planted by water. It was fruitful and full of buds by being plentifully watered. ¹¹ And it became a sceptre for them who bear rule over tribes, and became distinguished for its greatness among other stocks, and was conscious of its greatness by the multitude of its branches. ¹² But it is broken in wrath and thrown on the ground; and a burning wind hath blasted its choice branches. Vengeance hath been taken on them: and the rod of its strength is withered; a fire hath consumed it. ¹³ And now when they had planted it in a desert, in a land without water, ¹⁴ a fire hath issued forth from a rod of her choice shoots, and consumed her and she hath no more in her a sceptre of power. The tribe is become a parable in the song of Woe and shall be for a subject of lamentation.

⁴⁹ And when I said, "O Lord, Lord, forbid" they said to me, Is not this a parable which is spoken?

⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Ah! bloody city! a kettle, in which there is verdigrease in its very substance, and that verdigrease is not gone out of it. She hath brought it out on every member of her: no lot fell upon her.

⁴ a parable will in that day be taken up against you, and a song of lamentation will be sung, saying, "With affliction we have been afflicted! the portion of my people have been measured with a line, and there was none to hinder or turn it aside." Your fields have been parcelled out,

¹² Upon this they sought to lay hold of him, but were afraid of the people. For they knew that he had spoken the parable against them. So they left him and went away,

¹⁰ he said, To you it is granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, which to others are couched under parables, so that they see and do not see, and they hear and do not understand.

⁵¹ O stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears Ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do ye.