Ezekiel 20:32

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

That which

Lamentations 3:37

We will

1 Samuel 8:5

Jeremiah 44:17

Romans 12:2

To serve

General references

Jeremiah 23:23

Bible References

That which

Then the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and He said to me, “Say, ‘Thus says the Lord, “So you think, house of Israel, for I know your thoughts.

‘Thus says the Lord God, “It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan,

You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.

Many plans are in a man’s heart,
But the counsel of the Lord will stand.

Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has commanded it?

We will

and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.”

But rather we will certainly carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, by burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as we ourselves, our forefathers, our kings and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food and were well off and saw no misfortune.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may

prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

To serve

There you will serve gods, the work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

The Lord will bring you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.

moreover, you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which they had with them);

and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

General references

“Am I a God who is near,” declares the Lord,
“And not a God far off?