Ezekiel 14:5 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 14:5

so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’

BSB

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ASV

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

KJV

That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart,.... By which they are ensnared, and drawn aside to their ruin; being given up to strong delusions, to believe a lie, and worship idols; God threatening to answer them by righteous judgments, and thereby take the wickedness, the hypocrisy, and idolatry, that were in their hearts, and expose and make it manifest unto others; or, by punishing them, to draw out the corruption and sin that were in them, that it might be seen what a wicked people they were.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

According - According to his desert, I will give answer, but in just judgment. Take - That I may lay open what is in their heart, and discover their hypocrisy, and impiety. Through their idols - It is always through some idol or other, that the hearts of men are estranged from God: some creature has gained that place in the heart, which belongs to none but God.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

That I may take--that is, unveil and overtake with punishment the dissimulation and impiety of Israel hid in their own heart. Or, rather, "That I may punish them by answering them after their own hearts"; corresponding to "according to the multitude of his idols" (see on Eze 14:4); an instance is given in Eze 14:9;

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לְמַ֛עַן	le.Ma.'an	so as	H4616 →
תְּפֹ֥שׂ	te.Fos	to capture	H8610 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
בֵּֽית־	beit-	[the] house of	H1004 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
בְּלִבָּ֑ם	be.li.Bam	by heart their	H3820 →
אֲשֶׁ֤ר	'a.Sher	who	H834 →
נָזֹ֙רוּ֙	na.Zo.ru	they have become estranged	H2114 →
מֵֽעָלַ֔י	me.'a.Lai	from with <the> me	H5921 →
בְּגִלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֖ם	be.gi.lu.lei.Hem	by idols their	H1544 →
כֻּלָּֽם׃ ס	ku.Lam	all of them	H3605 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Colossians 1:21
Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
leads to
- Ephesians 2:12
  remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
- Titus 3:3–7
  For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
- Ephesians 2:1–3
  And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
- Romans 5:9–10
  Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!
- Ephesians 4:18
  They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
Through
Isaiah 1:4
Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on…
leads to
- Isaiah 5:24
  Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected…
- Jeremiah 2:17
  Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
- Jeremiah 2:13
  “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Ezekiel

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Ezekiel