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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Ezekiel 14 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/14.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/14-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Ezekiel 14</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/13.htm" title="Ezekiel 13">◄</a> Ezekiel 14 <a href="../ezekiel/15.htm" title="Ezekiel 15">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/ezekiel/14.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Idolatrous Elders Condemned</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then certain of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to me: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, I the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will answer him myself. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And I will set my face against that man; I will make him a sign and a byword and cut him off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And they shall bear their punishment<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or iniquity; three times in this verse">a</a></sup></span>—the punishment of the prophet and the punishment of the inquirer shall be alike— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, nor defile themselves anymore with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people and I may be their God, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>.”</p> <p class="heading">Jerusalem Will Not Be Spared</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to me: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew staff">b</a></sup></span> of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>even if these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, and I cut off from it man and beast, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>though these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“For thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But behold, some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out; behold, when they come out to you, and you see their ways and their deeds, you will be consoled for the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I have brought upon it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They will console you, when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i>iniquity</i>; three times in this verse<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Hebrew <i>staff</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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