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Do you really think the land should be yours? <a href="/esv/ezekiel/33.htm">English Standard Version</a> Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land? <a href="/bsb/ezekiel/33.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land? <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/33.htm">King James Bible</a> Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land? <a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/33.htm">New King James Version</a> “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “You eat meat with blood, you lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land? <a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/33.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “You eat meat with the blood in it, raise your eyes to your idols as you shed blood. Should you then possess the land? <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/33.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220Therefore say to them, &#8216Thus says the Lord GOD, &#8220You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols as you shed blood. Should you then possess the land? <a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/33.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “Therefore, say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols as you shed blood. Should you then possess the land? <a href="/lsb/ezekiel/33.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “You eat meat with the blood in it and lift up your eyes to your idols as you shed blood. Should you then possess the land? <a href="/amp/ezekiel/33.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “You eat meat with the blood in it and raise your eyes to your idols and shed blood. Should you take possession of the land? <a href="/csb/ezekiel/33.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: You eat meat with blood in it, you look to your idols, and you shed blood. Should you then receive possession of the land? <a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/33.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Therefore say to them: This is what the Lord GOD says: You eat meat with blood in it, raise your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then receive possession of the land? <a href="/asv/ezekiel/33.htm">American Standard Version</a> Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land? <a href="/cev/ezekiel/33.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> So, Ezekiel, tell them I am saying: How can you think the land is still yours? You eat meat with blood in it and worship idols. You commit murder <a href="/erv/ezekiel/33.htm">English Revised Version</a> Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land? <a href="/gwt/ezekiel/33.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> So tell them, 'This is what the Almighty LORD says: You eat meat with blood in it. You look to your idols for help. You murder people. Should the land be given to you? <a href="/gnt/ezekiel/33.htm">Good News Translation</a> "Tell them what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: You eat meat with the blood still in it. You worship idols. You commit murder. What makes you think that the land belongs to you? <a href="/isv/ezekiel/33.htm">International Standard Version</a> So tell them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "You keep eating flesh along with its blood, you keep looking to your idols, and you keep shedding blood, and you're going to take possession of the land? <a href="/msb/ezekiel/33.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ?You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land? <a href="/net/ezekiel/33.htm">NET Bible</a> Therefore say to them, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, pray to your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess the land? <a href="/nheb/ezekiel/33.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Therefore tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land? <a href="/wbt/ezekiel/33.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Wherefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes towards your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land? <a href="/web/ezekiel/33.htm">World English Bible</a> Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land? <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/33.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Therefore say to them, Thus said Lord YHWH: You eat with the blood, "" And you lift up your eyes to your idols, "" And you shed blood, "" Should you then inherit the land? <a href="/ylt/ezekiel/33.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Therefore say unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: With the blood ye do eat, And your eyes ye lift up unto your idols, And blood ye shed, and the land ye inherit! <a href="/slt/ezekiel/33.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For this, say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Ye will eat with the bloods, and ye will lift up your eyes to your blocks, and ye will pour out blood: and shall ye possess the land?<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/ezekiel/33.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God, You that eat with the blood and lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and that shed blood: shall you possess the land by inheritance? <a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/33.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Therefore, you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: You who eat even the blood, and who lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and who shed blood: will you possess the land as an inheritance? <a href="/nabre/ezekiel/33.htm">New American Bible</a> Therefore say to them: Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat on the mountains, you raise your eyes to your idols, you shed blood—yet you would keep possession of the land? <a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/33.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat flesh with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/33.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Therefore say to them, Thus says the LORD God: Because you eat meat with the blood and lift up your eyes toward your idols and drink blood, do you expect to inherit the land? <a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/33.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Because of this, say to them, ‘Thus says THE LORD OF LORDS: because you eat blood and you lift up your eyes to your idols and drink blood, do you also seek to inherit the land?<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/ezekiel/33.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Wherefore say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD. Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed blood; and shall ye possess the land? <a href="/sep/ezekiel/33.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> <a href="/parallel/ezekiel/33-25.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=9817" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/33.htm">Word of Jerusalem's Fall</a> …24“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’ 25<a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: lā·ḵên (Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so.">Therefore</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: ’ĕ·mōr (V-Qal-Imp-ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">tell</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’ă·lê·hem (Prep:: 3mp) -- To, into, towards. ">them</a> <a href="/hebrew/3541.htm" title="3541: kōh- (Adv) -- Thus, here. From the prefix k and huw'; properly, like this, i.e. By implication, thus; also here; or now.">that this is what</a> <a href="/hebrew/136.htm" title="136: ’ă·ḏō·nāy (N-proper-ms) -- Lord. Am emphatic form of 'adown; the Lord.">the Lord</a> <a href="/hebrew/3069.htm" title="3069: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- YHWH. A variation of Yhovah.">GOD</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: ’ā·mar (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">says:</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: tō·ḵê·lū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">‘You eat</a> <a href="/hebrew/1818.htm" title="1818: had·dām (Art:: N-ms) -- Blood. From damam; blood of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively bloodshed.">meat with the blood in it,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5375.htm" title="5375: tiś·’ū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- Or nacah ('abad); a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. And rel.">lift up</a> <a href="/hebrew/5869.htm" title="5869: wə·‘ê·nê·ḵem (Conj-w:: N-cdc:: 2mp) -- An eye. Probably a primitive word; an eye; by analogy, a fountain.">your eyes</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/1544.htm" title="1544: gil·lū·lê·ḵem (N-mpc:: 2mp) -- An idol. Or gillul; from galal; properly, a log; by implication, an idol.">your idols,</a> <a href="/hebrew/8210.htm" title="8210: tiš·pō·ḵū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- To pour out, pour. A primitive root; to spill forth; also to expend; intensively, to sprawl out.">and shed</a> <a href="/hebrew/1818.htm" title="1818: wə·ḏām (Conj-w:: N-ms) -- Blood. From damam; blood of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively bloodshed.">blood.</a> <a href="/hebrew/3423.htm" title="3423: tî·rā·šū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- Or yaresh; a primitive root; to occupy; by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin.">Should you then possess</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: wə·hā·’ā·reṣ (Conj-w, Art:: N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">the land?</a> 26You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?’…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/leviticus/18-24.htm">Leviticus 18:24-30</a> Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves. / Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants. / But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you. ... <a href="/deuteronomy/12-16.htm">Deuteronomy 12:16</a> but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water. <a href="/deuteronomy/12-23.htm">Deuteronomy 12:23-25</a> Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. / You must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water. / Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD. <a href="/deuteronomy/15-23.htm">Deuteronomy 15:23</a> But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water. <a href="/isaiah/1-15.htm">Isaiah 1:15-17</a> When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. / Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil! / Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.” <a href="/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Jeremiah 7:9-10</a> Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, / and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’? <a href="/jeremiah/22-3.htm">Jeremiah 22:3</a> This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place. <a href="/hosea/4-1.htm">Hosea 4:1-3</a> Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! / Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another. / Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear. <a href="/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21-24</a> “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. / Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard. / Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. ... <a href="/micah/6-6.htm">Micah 6:6-8</a> With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? / Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? / He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? <a href="/matthew/23-23.htm">Matthew 23:23</a> Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. <a href="/mark/7-21.htm">Mark 7:21-23</a> For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, / greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness. / All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.” <a href="/luke/11-42.htm">Luke 11:42</a> Woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former. <a href="/romans/1-28.htm">Romans 1:28-32</a> Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. / They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, / slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. ... <a href="/romans/2-21.htm">Romans 2:21-24</a> you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? / You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? / You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? ...</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Why say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?Ye eat<a href="/genesis/9-4.htm">Genesis 9:4</a> But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.<a href="/leviticus/3-17.htm">Leviticus 3:17</a> It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.<a href="/leviticus/7-26.htm">Leviticus 7:26,27</a> Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings… lift up<a href="/ezekiel/18-6.htm">Ezekiel 18:6,12,15</a> And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman, … <a href="/deuteronomy/4-19.htm">Deuteronomy 4:19</a> And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.<a href="/psalms/24-4.htm">Psalm 24:4</a> He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.and shed<a href="/ezekiel/9-9.htm">Ezekiel 9:9</a> Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.<a href="/ezekiel/22-6.htm">Ezekiel 22:6,9,27</a> Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood… shall ye<a href="/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Jeremiah 7:9,10</a> Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; … <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/33-8.htm">Blood</a> <a href="/ezekiel/32-26.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/ezekiel/25-4.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/ezekiel/29-16.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/32-6.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/ezekiel/30-13.htm">Idols</a> <a href="/ezekiel/30-13.htm">Images</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-1.htm">Inherit</a> <a href="/ezekiel/32-3.htm">Lift</a> <a href="/ezekiel/29-5.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/ezekiel/33-24.htm">Possess</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-16.htm">Shed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/32-32.htm">Sovereign</a> <a href="/revelation/22-15.htm">Takers</a> <a href="/ezekiel/28-21.htm">Towards</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-6.htm">Wherefore</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/35-5.htm">Blood</a> <a href="/ezekiel/33-28.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/ezekiel/34-3.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/ezekiel/36-23.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/36-26.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/ezekiel/36-18.htm">Idols</a> <a href="/ezekiel/36-25.htm">Images</a> <a href="/ezekiel/46-18.htm">Inherit</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-13.htm">Lift</a> <a href="/ezekiel/34-5.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/ezekiel/33-26.htm">Possess</a> <a href="/ezekiel/35-5.htm">Shed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/34-11.htm">Sovereign</a> <a href="/revelation/22-15.htm">Takers</a> <a href="/ezekiel/40-6.htm">Towards</a> <a href="/ezekiel/36-18.htm">Wherefore</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 33</div>1. <a href="/ezekiel/33-1.htm">According to the duty of a watchman in warning the people</a> 7. <a href="/ezekiel/33-7.htm">Ezekiel is admonished of his duty</a> 10. <a href="/ezekiel/33-10.htm">God shows the justice of his ways toward the penitent and toward revolters</a> 17. <a href="/ezekiel/33-17.htm">He maintains his justice</a> 21. <a href="/ezekiel/33-21.htm">Upon the news of the taking of Jerusalem </a> 25. <a href="/ezekiel/33-25.htm">he prophecies the desolation of the land</a> 30. <a href="/ezekiel/33-30.htm">God's judgment upon the mockers of the prophets</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Ezekiel, as a prophet, serves as a mouthpiece for God, delivering His judgments and instructions. The phrase underscores the seriousness of the message, as it comes directly from the sovereign Lord. This is a common prophetic formula found throughout the Old Testament, establishing the divine source of the prophecy (e.g., <a href="/isaiah/1-10.htm">Isaiah 1:10</a>, <a href="/jeremiah/2-2.htm">Jeremiah 2:2</a>).You eat meat with the blood in it: This refers to a violation of dietary laws given to Israel, specifically the prohibition against consuming blood (<a href="/leviticus/17-10.htm">Leviticus 17:10-14</a>). Eating blood was forbidden as it was considered the life force of the creature, and consuming it was seen as a serious transgression against God's covenant. This practice may also indicate a disregard for God's laws and a tendency towards pagan practices, as consuming blood was common in some ancient Near Eastern rituals.Lift up your eyes to your idols: Idolatry was a persistent issue for Israel, often leading them away from exclusive worship of Yahweh. Lifting up one's eyes to idols suggests not only worship but also reliance on false gods for guidance and provision. This phrase highlights the spiritual adultery of the people, as they turn from the true God to worship created images, a direct violation of the first two commandments (<a href="/exodus/20-3.htm">Exodus 20:3-4</a>). Idolatry is frequently condemned by the prophets (e.g., <a href="/isaiah/44-9.htm">Isaiah 44:9-20</a>, <a href="/jeremiah/10.htm">Jeremiah 10:1-16</a>).And shed blood: This phrase indicates acts of violence and injustice, likely referring to murder and the shedding of innocent blood. Such actions are condemned throughout the Bible and are seen as a grave sin against both God and neighbor (<a href="/genesis/9-6.htm">Genesis 9:6</a>, <a href="/proverbs/6-16.htm">Proverbs 6:16-17</a>). The shedding of blood is often associated with societal breakdown and moral decay, which were prevalent in Israel during times of apostasy.Should you then possess the land?: This rhetorical question challenges the people's expectation of inheriting the land despite their disobedience. The land was a covenant promise to Israel, contingent upon their faithfulness to God (Deuteronomy 28). Their actions—eating blood, idolatry, and violence—demonstrate a breach of covenant, thus jeopardizing their right to the land. This question echoes the conditional nature of God's promises and serves as a warning that possession of the land is tied to obedience and righteousness.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a> A prophet of God who was called to deliver messages of warning and hope to the Israelites during their exile in Babylon. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a> The people of God who were in exile due to their disobedience and idolatry. 3. <a href="/topical/b/babylon.htm">Babylon</a> The place of exile for the Israelites, representing a period of judgment and reflection. 4. <a href="/topical/t/the_land.htm">The Land</a> Refers to the Promised Land, which the Israelites were hoping to return to and possess once again. 5. <a href="/topical/i/idols.htm">Idols</a> Objects of worship that the Israelites turned to instead of the one true God, leading to their spiritual downfall.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/o/obedience_to_god's_commands.htm">Obedience to God's Commands</a> The Israelites' failure to obey God's dietary laws and prohibition against idolatry serves as a reminder of the importance of obedience in our own lives. <a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_idolatry.htm">The Consequences of Idolatry</a> Idolatry leads to spiritual and physical consequences, as seen in the Israelites' exile. We must examine our own lives for modern-day idols. <a href="/topical/t/the_sanctity_of_life.htm">The Sanctity of Life</a> The prohibition against eating blood underscores the value God places on life. We are called to respect and uphold the sanctity of life in all its forms. <a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_restoration.htm">Repentance and Restoration</a> Despite their disobedience, God offers the Israelites a chance for repentance and restoration. This is a message of hope for us today. <a href="/topical/p/possessing_the_promises_of_god.htm">Possessing the Promises of God</a> Just as the Israelites were questioned about their right to possess the land, we must consider our own readiness to receive God's promises based on our faithfulness.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_33.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 33</a> <a href="/q/what_foods_are_mentioned_in_the_bible.htm">What foods are mentioned in the Bible?</a> <a href="/q/why_does_god_cite_jerusalem's_violence.htm">In Ezekiel 22:2-5, why does God single out Jerusalem's bloodshed without clear archaeological evidence of such extensive violence?</a> <a href="/q/why_does_paul_allow_more_freedoms_later.htm">Acts 15:22-29 - If this decree was universally binding, why do Paul's later writings seem to allow more freedoms than this letter implies?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_ezekiel_8's_view_on_idols_compare.htm">How does the severe condemnation of these idolatries in Ezekiel 8 align or conflict with other biblical accounts of tolerating foreign gods?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/33.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(25) Ye eat with the blood.--The people who remained in the land went on as before in their course of sin. The crimes here charged upon them (<a href="/context/ezekiel/33-25.htm" title="Why say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?">Ezekiel 33:25-26</a>) are the same as those all along alleged against them, and Jeremiah gives a sad picture of their open rebellion against the express commands of God (Jeremiah 42, 43). This particular sin of eating flesh with the blood had been repeatedly forbidden, first to Noah (<a href="/genesis/9-4.htm" title="But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat.">Genesis 9:4</a>), and again under the Law (<a href="/leviticus/3-17.htm" title="It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood.">Leviticus 3:17</a>; <a href="/leviticus/7-26.htm" title="Moreover you shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.">Leviticus 7:26</a>; <a href="/context/leviticus/17-10.htm" title="And whatever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eats any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.">Leviticus 17:10-14</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/12-16.htm" title="Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth as water.">Deuteronomy 12:16</a>). . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/33.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 25. - Ye eat with the blood. It is characteristic of Ezekiel that the first offence which he names with horror should be a sin against a positive commandment. He felt, as it were, a sense of loathing at what seemed to him a descent into the worst form of pollution, forbidden, not to the Jews only (<a href="/leviticus/17-10.htm">Leviticus 17:10</a>; <a href="/leviticus/19-26.htm">Leviticus 19:26</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/12-16.htm">Deuteronomy 12:16</a>), but to mankind (<a href="/genesis/9-4.htm">Genesis 9:4</a>); compare the scene in <a href="/1_samuel/14-32.htm">1 Samuel 14:32</a>. The same feeling shows itself in <a href="/zechariah/9-7.htm">Zechariah 9:7</a> and <a href="/acts/15-20.htm">Acts 15:20, 29</a>. The prohibition of blood took its place, in later Judaism, as among the precepts of Noah, which were binding even on the proselytes of the gate, upon whom, as distinct from the proselytes of righteousness, the rite of circumcision was not enforced; and as such were accepted by the council at Jerusalem, as binding also among Christian converts. Not for such as these was the inheritance of Israel, and the prophet asks indignantly, after naming yet . more hateful offenses, Shall ye possess the land? <a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/33-25.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Therefore לָכֵן֩ (lā·ḵên) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3651.htm">Strong's 3651: </a> So -- thus tell אֱמֹ֨ר (’ĕ·mōr) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say them אֲלֵיהֶ֜ם (’ă·lê·hem) Preposition | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to that this is what כֹּֽה־ (kōh-) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3541.htm">Strong's 3541: </a> Like this, thus, here, now the Lord אֲדֹנָ֣י (’ă·ḏō·nāy) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_136.htm">Strong's 136: </a> The Lord GOD יְהֹוִ֗ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel says: אָמַ֣ר ׀ (’ā·mar) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say ‘You eat תֹּאכֵ֛לוּ (tō·ḵê·lū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> To eat meat with the blood [in it], הַדָּ֧ם ׀ (had·dām) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1818.htm">Strong's 1818: </a> Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed lift up תִּשְׂא֥וּ (tiś·’ū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5375.htm">Strong's 5375: </a> To lift, carry, take your eyes וְעֵינֵכֶ֛ם (wə·‘ê·nê·ḵem) Conjunctive waw | Noun - cdc | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5869.htm">Strong's 5869: </a> An eye, a fountain to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to your idols, גִּלּוּלֵיכֶ֖ם (gil·lū·lê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1544.htm">Strong's 1544: </a> A log, an idol and shed תִּשְׁפֹּ֑כוּ (tiš·pō·ḵū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8210.htm">Strong's 8210: </a> To spill forth, to expend, to sprawl out blood. וְדָ֣ם (wə·ḏām) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1818.htm">Strong's 1818: </a> Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed Should you then possess תִּירָֽשׁוּ׃ (tî·rā·šū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3423.htm">Strong's 3423: </a> To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin the land? וְהָאָ֖רֶץ (wə·hā·’ā·reṣ) Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/33-25.htm">Ezekiel 33:25 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/33-25.htm">Ezekiel 33:25 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/ezekiel/33-25.htm">Ezekiel 33:25 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/33-25.htm">Ezekiel 33:25 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/33-25.htm">Ezekiel 33:25 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/33-25.htm">Ezekiel 33:25 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/33-25.htm">Ezekiel 33:25 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/33-25.htm">Ezekiel 33:25 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/33-25.htm">Ezekiel 33:25 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/ezekiel/33-25.htm">Ezekiel 33:25 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/ezekiel/33-25.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 33:25 Therefore tell them Thus says the Lord (Ezek. 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