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  • EZEKIEL CHAPTER SIXTEEN

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PROPHET - DATE JONAH (825-785BC)? JOEL (800BC)? HOSEA (785-725BC)? MICAH (785-710BC)? AMOS (784BC)? ISAIAH (701-681BC)? NAHUM (700BC)? ZEPHANIAH (630BC)? JEREMIAH (629-588BC)? DANIEL (606-534BC)? HABAKKUK (598BC)? EZEKIEL (597-573BC)? OBADIAH (588-562BC)? EZRA (536-456BC)? HAGGAI (532-512BC)? ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)? ESTHER (485-465BC)? NEHEMIAH (465-424BC)? MALACHI (420-397BC)? KING / EVENT - DATE TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)? HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)? SHALMANESER (727-722BC)? ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)? ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) (597-586BC)? JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)? BELSHAZZAR (541-523BC)? CYRUS (559-529BC)? BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)? DARIUS (511-475BC)?
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OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM V. 1-14
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY V. 15-30
  • JERUSALEM'S ADULTERY V. 31-34
  • JERUSALEM ABUSED BY HER LOVERS V. 35-43
  • JERUSALEMS WICKEDNESS V. 44-59
  • GODS EVERLASTING COVENANT V. 60-63

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READ EZEKIEL 161-3
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 1 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  • 2 "Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her
    abominations,
  • 3 and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem
    "Your birth and your nativity are from the land
    of Canaan your father was an Amorite and your
    mother a Hittite.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 161-3
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 1 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  • 2 "Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her
    abominations,
  • 3 and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem
    "Your birth and your nativity are from the land
    of Canaan your father was an Amorite and your
    mother a Hittite.
  • WHAT DID THE LORD WANT JERUSALEM TO KNOW?
  • WAS THEIR NATIVITY, PLACE OF BIRTH, CANAAN?
  • WAS THEIR FATHER AN AMORITE?
  • WAS THEIR MOTHER A HITTITE?
  • WHY WOULD THE LORD SAY THIS?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 161-2
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 1 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  • 2 "Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her
    abominations,
  • WHAT DID THE LORD WANT JERUSALEM TO KNOW?
  • DID EZEKIEL KNOW OF THEIR ABOMINATIONS?
  • READ EZEKIEL 817
  • 17 And He said to me, "Have you seen this, O son
    of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of
    Judah to commit the abominations which they
    commit here? For they have filled the land with
    violence then they have returned to provoke Me
    to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their
    nose. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • 3 and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem
    "Your birth and your nativity are from the land
    of Canaan your father was an Amorite and your
    mother a Hittite.
  • WAS THEIR NATIVITY, PLACE OF BIRTH, CANAAN?
  • READ GENESIS 1015-19
  • 15 Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth
  • 16 the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite
  • 17 the Hivite, the Arkite, and the Sinite
  • 18 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
    Afterward the families of the Canaanites were
    dispersed.
  • 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from
    Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza
    then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and
    Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • 3 and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem
    "Your birth and your nativity are from the land
    of Canaan your father was an Amorite and your
    mother a Hittite.
  • WAS THEIR NATIVITY, PLACE OF BIRTH, CANAAN?
  • CHALDEA?
  • READ GENESIS 1124-28
  • 24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot
    Terah.
  • 25 After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred
    and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
  • 26 Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot
    Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
  • 27 This is the genealogy of Terah Terah begot
    Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot.
  • 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in his
    native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • 3 and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem
    "Your birth and your nativity are from the land
    of Canaan your father was an Amorite and your
    mother a Hittite.
  • WAS THEIR NATIVITY, PLACE OF BIRTH, CANAAN?
  • CHALDEA?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ABRAM?
  • READ GENESIS 121-3
  • 1 Now the LORD had said to Abram "Get out of
    your country, From your family And from your
    father's house,
  • To a land that I will show you.
  • 2 I will make you a great nation I will bless
    you And make your name great And you shall be a
    blessing.
  • 3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will
    curse him who curses you And in you all the
    families of the earth shall be blessed." NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHO WAS THEIR FATHER MOTHER?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
  • READ ISAIAH 511-2
  • 1 "Listen to Me, you who follow after
    righteousness,
  • You who seek the LORD Look to the rock from
    which you were hewn, And to the hole of the pit
    from which you were dug.
  • 2 Look to Abraham your father, And to Sarah who
    bore you For I called him alone, And blessed him
    and increased him." NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • 3 and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem
    "Your birth and your nativity are from the land
    of Canaan your father was an Amorite and your
    mother a Hittite.
  • WAS THEIR NATIVITY, PLACE OF BIRTH, CANAAN?
  • CHALDEA?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ABRAHAM? WHY?
  • READ GENESIS 1515-16
  • 15 Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers
    in peace you shall be buried at a good old age.
  • 16 But in the fourth generation they shall return
    here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet
    complete."
  • WHAT IS THIS INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • 3 and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem
    "Your birth and your nativity are from the land
    of Canaan your father was an Amorite and your
    mother a Hittite.
  • WAS THEIR NATIVITY, PLACE OF BIRTH, CANAAN?
  • CHALDEA?
  • WHY WOULD THE LORD SAY THIS?
  • WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES?
  • WHAT DID ESAU DO?
  • READ GENESIS 2634-35
  • 34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as
    wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite,
    and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
  • 35 And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and
    Rebekah. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
  • READ EXODUS 3411-16
  • 11 Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I
    am driving out from before you the Amorite and
    the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite
    and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
  • 12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a
    covenant with the inhabitants of the land where
    you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
  • READ EXODUS 3411-16
  • 13 But you shall destroy their altars, break
    their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden
    images
  • 14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the
    LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
  • 15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants
    of the land, and they play the harlot with their
    gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of
    them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice,
  • 16 and you take of his daughters for your sons,
    and his daughters play the harlot with their gods
    and make your sons play the harlot with their
    gods. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
  • READ LEVITICUS 1824-29
  • 24 'Do not defile yourselves with any of these
    things for by all these the nations are defiled,
    which I am casting out before you.
  • 25 For the land is defiled therefore I visit the
    punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land
    vomits out its inhabitants.
  • 26 You shall therefore keep My statutes and My
    judgments, and shall not commit any of these
    abominations, either any of your own nation or
    any stranger who dwells among you

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
  • READ LEVITICUS 1824-29
  • 27 (for all these abominations the men of the
    land have done, who were before you, and thus the
    land is defiled),
  • 28 lest the land vomit you out also when you
    defile it, as it vomited out the nations that
    were before you.
  • 29 For whoever commits any of these
    abominations, the persons who commit them shall
    be cut off from among their people. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
  • READ DEUTERONOMY 71-5
  • 1 "When the LORD your God brings you into the
    land which you go to possess, and has cast out
    many nations before you, the Hittites and the
    Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites
    and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the
    Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier
    than you,
  • 2 and when the LORD your God delivers them over
    to you, you shall conquer them and utterly
    destroy them. You shall make no covenant with
    them nor show mercy to them.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
  • READ DEUTERONOMY 71-5
  • 3 Nor shall you make marriages with them. You
    shall not give your daughter to their son, nor
    take their daughter for your son.
  • 4 For they will turn your sons away from
    following Me, to serve other gods so the anger
    of the LORD will be aroused against you and
    destroy you suddenly.
  • 5 But thus you shall deal with them you shall
    destroy their altars, and break down their sacred
    pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and
    burn their carved images with fire. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
  • READ DEUTERONOMY 1812-14
  • 12 For all who do these things are an abomination
    to the LORD, and because of these abominations
    the LORD your God drives them out from before
    you.
  • 13 You shall be blameless before the LORD your
    God.
  • 14 For these nations which you will dispossess
    listened to soothsayers and diviners but as for
    you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for
    you. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
  • READ DEUTERONOMY 2016-18
  • 16 "But of the cities of these peoples which the
    LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, you
    shall let nothing that breathes remain alive,
  • 17 but you shall utterly destroy them the
    Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the
    Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just
    as the LORD your God has commanded you,
  • 18 lest they teach you to do according to all
    their abominations which they have done for their
    gods, and you sin against the LORD your God.
    NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES?
  • WHAT DID JOSHUA SAY TO ISRAEL?
  • READ JOSHUA 12-4
  • 2 "Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore,
    arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this
    people, to the land which I am giving to them
    the children of Israel.
  • 3 Every place that the sole of your foot will
    tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses.
  • 4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as
    the great river, the River Euphrates, all the
    land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward
    the going down of the sun, shall be your
    territory. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES?
  • WHAT DID JOSHUA SAY TO ISRAEL?
  • READ JOSHUA 2414-15
  • 14 "Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in
    sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods
    which your fathers served on the other side of
    the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD!
  • 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the
    LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you
    will serve, whether the gods which your fathers
    served that were on the other side of the River,
    or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you
    dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve
    the LORD." NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHAT HAPPENED IN THE DAYS OF THE JUDGES?
  • READ JUDGES 35-6
  • 5 Thus the children of Israel dwelt among the
    Canaanites, the Hittites , the Amorites, the
    Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
  • 6 And they took their daughters to be their
    wives, and gave their daughters to their sons
    and they served their gods. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHAT DID SOLOMON DO?
  • READ 1 KINGS 111-3
  • SOLOMON'S HEART TURNS FROM THE LORD
  • 1 But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as
    well as the daughter of Pharaoh women of the
    Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and
    Hittites
  • 2 from the nations of whom the LORD had said to
    the children of Israel, "You shall not intermarry
    with them, nor they with you. Surely they will
    turn away your hearts after their gods." Solomon
    clung to these in love.
  • 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses,
    and three hundred concubines and his wives
    turned away his heart.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES?
  • WHO DESTROYED THE AMORITES? WHY?
  • READ AMOS 29
  • 9 "Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before
    them, Whose height was like the height of the
    cedars,
  • And he was as strong as the oaks Yet I destroyed
    his fruit above And his roots beneath. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES?
  • WHAT DID MANASSEH DO?
  • READ 2 KINGS 2111-13
  • 11 "Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these
    abominations (he has acted more wickedly than all
    the Amorites who were before him, and has also
    made Judah sin with his idols),
  • 12 therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel
    'Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon
    Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it,
    both his ears will tingle.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HOUSE OF ISREAL?
  • READ EZRA 91-2
  • INTERMARRIAGE WITH PAGANS
  • 1 When these things were done, the leaders came
    to me, saying, "The people of Israel and the
    priests and the Levites have not separated
    themselves from the peoples of the lands, with
    respect to the abominations of the Canaanites,
    the Hittites , the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the
    Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the
    Amorites.
  • 2 For they have taken some of their daughters as
    wives for themselves and their sons, so that the
    holy seed is mixed with the peoples of those
    lands. Indeed, the hand of the leaders and rulers
    has been foremost in this trespass. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 163
  • DID THE LORD KEEP HIS PROMISE TO ABRAHAM?
  • READ NEHEMIAH 97-8
  • 7 "You are the LORD God, Who chose Abram, And
    brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, And gave
    him the name Abraham
  • 8 You found his heart faithful before You, And
    made a covenant with him To give the land of the
    Canaanites,
  • The Hittites , the Amorites, The Perizzites, the
    Jebusites,
  • And the Girgashites To give it to his
    descendants. You have performed Your words, For
    You are righteous.

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READ EZEKIEL 164-5
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 4 As for your nativity, on the day you were born
    your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed
    in water to cleanse you you were not rubbed with
    salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.
  • 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things
    for you, to have compassion on you but you were
    thrown out into the open field, when you yourself
    were loathed on the day you were born.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 164-5
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 4 As for your nativity, on the day you were born
    your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed
    in water to cleanse you you were not rubbed with
    salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.
  • 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things
    for you, to have compassion on you but you were
    thrown out into the open field, when you yourself
    were loathed on the day you were born.
  • WHAT WAS THE CUSTOM OF THE DAY?
  • WHAT DID PHARAOH COMMAND THE MID WIVES?
  • WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HEBREW CHILDREN?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 164-5
  • WHAT DID PHARAOH COMMAND THE MID WIVES?
  • READ EXODUS 115-22
  • 15 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew
    midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah
    and the name of the other Puah
  • 16 and he said, "When you do the duties of a
    midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the
    birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill
    him but if it is a daughter, then she shall
    live."
  • 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as
    the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the
    male children alive.
  • 18 So the king of Egypt called for the midwives
    and said to them, "Why have you done this thing,
    and saved the male children alive?"

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 164-5
  • WHAT DID PHARAOH COMMAND THE MID WIVES?
  • READ EXODUS 115-22
  • 19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because
    the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women
    for they are lively and give birth before the
    midwives come to them."
  • 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives,
    and the people multiplied and grew very mighty.
  • 21 And so it was, because the midwives feared
    God, that He provided households for them.
  • 22 So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying,
    "Every son who is born you shall cast into the
    river, and every daughter you shall save alive."
    NKJV

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READ EZEKIEL 166-7
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 6 "And when I passed by you and saw you
    struggling in your own blood, I said to you in
    your blood, 'Live!' Yes, I said to you in your
    blood, 'Live!'
  • 7 I made you thrive like a plant in the field
    and you grew, matured, and became very beautiful.
    Your breasts were formed, your hair grew, but you
    were naked and bare.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 166-7
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 6 "And when I passed by you and saw you
    struggling in your own blood, I said to you in
    your blood, 'Live!' Yes, I said to you in your
    blood, 'Live!'
  • 7 I made you thrive like a plant in the field
    and you grew, matured, and became very beautiful.
    Your breasts were formed, your hair grew, but you
    were naked and bare.
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
  • READ EXODUS 16-7
  • 6 And Joseph died, all his brothers, and all that
    generation.
  • 7 But the children of Israel were fruitful and
    increased abundantly, multiplied and grew
    exceedingly mighty and the land was filled with
    them. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 166-7
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
  • READ ACTS 711-16
  • 11 Now a famine and great trouble came over all
    the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers
    found no sustenance.
  • 12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in
    Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
  • 13 And the second time Joseph was made known to
    his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to
    the Pharaoh.
  • 14 Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob
    and all his relatives to him, seventy-five
    people.
  • 15 So Jacob went down to Egypt and he died, he
    and our fathers.
  • 16 And they were carried back to Shechem and laid
    in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of
    money from the sons of Hamor, the father of
    Shechem. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 166-7
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
  • READ EXODUS 1237-39
  • 37 Then the children of Israel journeyed from
    Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand
    men on foot, besides children.
  • 38 A mixed multitude went up with them also, and
    flocks and herds a great deal of livestock.
  • 39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough
    which they had brought out of Egypt for it was
    not leavened, because they were driven out of
    Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared
    provisions for themselves. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 166-7
  • READ EXODUS 193-6
  • 3 And Moses went up to God, and the LORD called
    to him from the mountain, saying, "Thus you shall
    say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children
    of Israel
  • 4 'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and
    how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you
    to Myself.
  • 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice
    and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special
    treasure to Me above all people for all the
    earth is Mine.
  • 6 And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests
    and a holy nation.' These are the words which you
    shall speak to the children of Israel." NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 166-7
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
  • READ DEUTERONOMY 16-8
  • 6 "The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying
    'You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.
  • 7 Turn and take your journey, and go to the
    mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring
    places in the plain, in the mountains and in the
    lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the
    land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as
    the great river, the River Euphrates.
  • 8 See, I have set the land before you go in and
    possess the land which the LORD swore to your
    fathers to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give
    to them and their descendants after them.' NKJV

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READ EZEKIEL 168
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 8 "When I passed by you again and looked upon
    you, indeed your time was the time of love so I
    spread My wing over you and covered your
    nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and
    entered into a covenant with you, and you became
    Mine," says the Lord GOD.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 168
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 8 "When I passed by you again and looked upon
    you, indeed your time was the time of love so I
    spread My wing over you and covered your
    nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and
    entered into a covenant with you, and you became
    Mine," says the Lord GOD.
  • WHAT COVENANT DID THE LORD MAKE WITH THEM?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 168
  • 8 "When I passed by you again and looked upon
    you, indeed your time was the time of love so I
    spread My wing over you and covered your
    nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and
    entered into a covenant with you, and you became
    Mine," says the Lord GOD.
  • WHAT COVENANT DID THE LORD MAKE WITH THEM?
  • READ GENESIS 1513-14
  • 13 Then He said to Abram "Know certainly that
    your descendants will be strangers in a land that
    is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will
    afflict them four hundred years.
  • 14 And also the nation whom they serve I will
    judge afterward they shall come out with great
    possessions.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 168
  • 8 "When I passed by you again and looked upon
    you, indeed your time was the time of love so I
    spread My wing over you and covered your
    nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and
    entered into a covenant with you, and you became
    Mine," says the Lord GOD.
  • WHAT COVENANT DID THE LORD MAKE WITH THEM?
  • WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HEBREW CHILDREN?
  • READ ACTS 76-7
  • 6 But God spoke in this way that his descendants
    would dwell in a foreign land, and that they
    would bring them into bondage and oppress them
    four hundred years.
  • 7 'And the nation to whom they will be in bondage
    I will judge,' said God, 'and after that they
    shall come out and serve Me in this place.'
    NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 168
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 8 "When I passed by you again and looked upon
    you, indeed your time was the time of love so I
    spread My wing over you and covered your
    nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and
    entered into a covenant with you, and you became
    Mine," says the Lord GOD.
  • WHAT COVENANT DID THE LORD MAKE WITH THEM?
  • WHEN DID THE LORD MAKE THIS COVENANT?
  • READ EXODUS 195
  • 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice
    and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special
    treasure to Me above all people for all the
    earth is Mine.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 168
  • WHAT COVENANT DID THE LORD MAKE WITH THEM?
  • HOW DID THE LORD DEFINE THIS COVENANT?
  • READ ISAIAH 545
  • 5 For your Maker is your husband, The LORD of
    hosts is His name And your Redeemer is the Holy
    One of Israel He is called the God of the whole
    earth. NKJV
  • READ JEREMIAH 22-3
  • 2 "Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem,
    saying, 'Thus says the LORD "I remember you, The
    kindness of your youth, The love of your
    betrothal, When you went after Me in the
    wilderness, In a land not sown.
  • 3 Israel was holiness to the LORD, The
    first-fruits of His increase. All that devour him
    will offend Disaster will come upon them," says
    the LORD.'" NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 168
  • WHAT COVENANT DID THE LORD MAKE WITH THEM?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO?
  • READ JEREMIAH 314
  • 14 "Return, O backsliding children," says the
    LORD "for I am married to you. I will take you,
    one from a city and two from a family, and I will
    bring you to Zion.
  • READ JEREMIAH 1110
  • 10 They have turned back to the iniquities of
    their forefathers who refused to hear My words,
    and they have gone after other gods to serve
    them the house of Israel and the house of Judah
    have broken My covenant which I made with their
    fathers." NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 168
  • WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL?
  • READ HOSEA 27
  • 7 She will chase her lovers, But not overtake
    them
  • Yes, she will seek them, but not find them. Then
    she will say, 'I will go and return to my first
    husband, For then it was better for me than now.'
    NKJV
  • READ HOSEA 219-20
  • 19 "I will betroth you to Me forever Yes, I
    will betroth you to Me In righteousness and
    justice, In loving kindness and mercy
  • 20 I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, And
    you shall know the LORD. NKJV
  • READ HOSEA 111
  • 1 "When Israel was a child, I loved him, And out
    of Egypt I called My son. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 168
  • WHY DID THE LORD MAKE THIS COVENANT?
  • READ MALACHI 12
  • 1 "I have loved you," says the LORD. "Yet you
    say, 'In what way have You loved us? Was not
    Esau Jacob's brother? Says the LORD. "Yet Jacob
    I have loved
  • WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL?
  • READ MALACHI 214
  • 14 Yet you say, "For what reason? Because the
    LORD has been witness Between you and the wife of
    your youth, With whom you have dealt
    treacherously
  • Yet she is your companion And your wife by
    covenant.

48
READ EZEKIEL 169-12
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 9 "Then I washed you in water yes, I thoroughly
    washed off your blood, and I anointed you with
    oil.
  • 10 I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave
    you sandals of badger skin I clothed you with
    fine linen and covered you with silk.
  • 11 I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on
    your wrists, and a chain on your neck.
  • 12 And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in
    your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 169-12
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 9 "Then I washed you in water yes, I thoroughly
    washed off your blood, and I anointed you with
    oil.
  • 10 I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave
    you sandals of badger skin I clothed you with
    fine linen and covered you with silk.
  • 11 I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on
    your wrists, and a chain on your neck.
  • 12 And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in
    your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHY?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 169
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 9 "Then I washed you in water yes, I thoroughly
    washed off your blood, and I anointed you with
    oil.
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
  • READ EXODUS 1914
  • 14 So Moses went down from the mountain to the
    people and sanctified the people, and they washed
    their clothes. NKJV
  • READ PSALMS 457
  • 7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness
  • Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With
    the oil of gladness more than Your companions.
    NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1610
  • 10 I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave
    you sandals of badger skin I clothed you with
    fine linen and covered you with silk.
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
  • WHAT WERE THESE ITEMS USED FOR?
  • READ EXODUS 2614
  • 14 "You shall make a covering of ram skins dyed
    red for the tent, and a covering of badger skins
    above that.
  • READ EXODUS 2636
  • 36 "You shall make a screen for the door of the
    tabernacle, woven of blue, purple, and scarlet
    thread, and fine woven linen, made by a weaver.
    NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1610
  • 10 I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave
    you sandals of badger skin I clothed you with
    fine linen and covered you with silk.
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
  • HOW SHOULD THE PRIEST BE CLOTHED?
  • READ LEVITICUS 610
  • 10 The priest shall put on his linen garment,
    and his linen trousers he shall put on his body,
    and take up the ashes of the burnt offering which
    the fire has consumed on the altar, and he shall
    put them beside the altar.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1610
  • 10 I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave
    you sandals of badger skin I clothed you with
    fine linen and covered you with silk.
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
  • WHAT DID ISAIAH SAY
  • READ ISAIAH 6110
  • 10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, My soul
    shall be joyful in my God For He has clothed me
    with the garments of salvation, He has covered me
    with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom
    decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride
    adorns herself with her jewels

54
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1610
  • WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
  • READ REVELATION 318
  • 18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in
    the fire, that you may be rich and white
    garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame
    of your nakedness may not be revealed and anoint
    your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. NKJV
  • WHAT DID JOHN SAY? WHY?
  • READ REVELATION 197-8
  • 7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory,
    for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His
    wife has made herself ready."
  • 8 And to her it was granted to be arrayed in
    fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen
    is the righteous acts of the saints. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1611-12
  • 11 I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on
    your wrists, and a chain on your neck.
  • 12 And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in
    your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHEN?
  • WHAT DID ABRAHAMS SERVANT DO? WHY?
  • READ GENESIS 2447-48
  • 47 I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are
    you?' And she said, 'The daughter of Bethuel,
    Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put
    the nose ring on her nose and the bracelets on
    her wrists.
  • 48 And I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD,
    and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham,
    who had led me in the way of truth to take the
    daughter of my master's brother for his son.
    NKJV

56
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1611-12
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHEN?
  • WHAT DID JACOB ASK THEM TO DO? WHY?
  • READ GENESIS 352-4
  • 2 And Jacob said to his household and to all who
    were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that
    are among you, purify yourselves, and change your
    garments.
  • 3 Then let us arise and go up to Bethel and I
    will make an altar there to God, who answered me
    in the day of my distress and has been with me in
    the way which I have gone."
  • 4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which
    were in their hands, and the earrings which were
    in their ears and Jacob hid them under the
    terebinth tree which was by Shechem. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1611-12
  • 11 I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on
    your wrists, and a chain on your neck.
  • 12 And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in
    your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHEN?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR JOSEPH?
  • READ GENESIS 4142-43
  • 42 Pharaoh took his signet ring off his hand and
    put it on Joseph's hand and he clothed him in
    garments of fine linen and put a gold chain
    around his neck.
  • 43 And he had him ride in the second chariot
    which he had and they cried out before him, "Bow
    the knee!" So he set him over all the land of
    Egypt. NKJV

58
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1611-12
  • 11 I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on
    your wrists, and a chain on your neck.
  • 12 And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in
    your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHEN?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
  • READ EXODUS 195-6
  • 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice
    and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special
    treasure to Me above all people for all the
    earth is Mine.
  • 6 And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests
    and a holy nation.' ." NKJV

59
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1611-12
  • 11 I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on
    your wrists, and a chain on your neck.
  • 12 And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in
    your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHEN?
  • WHAT DID AARON DO? WHY?
  • READ EXODUS 322-4
  • 2 Aaron said to them, "Break off the golden
    earrings which are in the ears of your wives,
    your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to
    me."
  • 3 So all the people broke off the golden earrings
    which were in their ears, and brought them to
    Aaron.
  • 4 He received the gold from their hand, and he
    fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a
    molded calf. Then they said, "This is your god, O
    Israel, that brought you out of the land of
    Egypt!" NKJV

60
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1611-12
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD TAKE AWAY FROM THEM? WHY?
  • READ ISAIAH 318-23
  • 18 In that day the Lord will take away the
    finery The jingling anklets, the scarves, and
    the crescents
  • 19 The pendants, the bracelets, and the veils
  • 20 The headdresses, the leg ornaments, and the
    headbands The perfume boxes, the charms,
  • 21 and the rings The nose jewels,
  • 22 the festal apparel, and the mantles The
    outer garments, the purses,
  • 23 and the mirrors The fine linen, the turbans,
    and the robes. NKJV

61
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1611-12
  • WHAT DID THE LORD TAKE AWAY FROM THEM? WHY?
  • READ JEREMIAH 430
  • 30 When you are plundered, What will you do?
  • Though you clothe yourself with crimson, Though
    you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, Though
    you enlarge your eyes with paint, In vain you
    will make yourself fair Your lovers will despise
    you They will seek your life. NKJV
  • READ HOSEA 213
  • 13 I will punish her For the days of the Baals
    to which she burned incense. She decked herself
    with her earrings and jewelry, And went after her
    lovers But Me she forgot," says the LORD. NKJV

62
READ EZEKIEL 1613-14
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 13 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver,
    and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and
    embroidered cloth. You ate pastry of fine flour,
    honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful,
    and succeeded to royalty.
  • 14 Your fame went out among the nations because
    of your beauty, for it was perfect through My
    splendor which I had bestowed on you," says the
    Lord GOD.

63
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1613-14
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 13 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver,
    and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and
    embroidered cloth. You ate pastry of fine flour,
    honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful,
    and succeeded to royalty.
  • 14 Your fame went out among the nations because
    of your beauty, for it was perfect through My
    splendor which I had bestowed on you," says the
    Lord GOD.
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR SAUL?
  • READ 1 SAMUEL 101
  • 1 Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his
    head, and kissed him and said "Is it not because
    the LORD has anointed you commander over His
    inheritance? NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1613-14
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHY?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
  • READ DEUTERONOMY 3213-14
  • 13 "He made him ride in the heights of the
    earth,
  • That he might eat the produce of the fields He
    made him draw honey from the rock, And oil from
    the flinty rock
  • 14 Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock,
    With fat of lambs And rams of the breed of
    Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat And
    you drank wine, the blood of the grapes. NKJV

65
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1613-14
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR SOLOMON?
  • READ 1 KINGS 421
  • 121 So Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the
    River to the land of the Philistines, as far as
    the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and
    served Solomon all the days of his life. NKJV
  • READ 1 KINGS 101-2
  • 1 Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame
    of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she
    came to test him with hard questions.
  • 2 She came to Jerusalem with a very great
    retinue, with camels that bore spices, very much
    gold, and precious stones and when she came to
    Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in
    her heart. NKJV
  • (2 CHRONICLES 91-28)

66
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1613-14
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHY?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR SOLOMON?
  • READ 1 KINGS 1024-25
  • 24 Now all the earth sought the presence of
    Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in
    his heart.
  • 25 Each man brought his present articles of
    silver and gold, garments, armor, spices, horses,
    and mules, at a set rate year by year. NKJV
  • READ PSALMS 482-3
  • 2 Beautiful in elevation, The joy of the whole
    earth,
  • Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, The city
    of the great King.
  • 3 God is in her palaces He is known as her
    refuge.

67
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1613-14
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • WHAT SHOULD ALL MEN DO?
  • READ PSALMS 292
  • 2 Give unto the LORD the glory due to His name
  • Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. NKJV
  • READ PSALMS 482-3
  • 2 Beautiful in elevation, The joy of the whole
    earth,
  • Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, The city
    of the great King.
  • 3 God is in her palaces He is known as her
    refuge.

68
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1613-14
  • GOD'S LOVE FOR JERUSALEM
  • 13 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver,
    and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and
    embroidered cloth. You ate pastry of fine flour,
    honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful,
    and succeeded to royalty.
  • 14 Your fame went out among the nations because
    of your beauty, for it was perfect through My
    splendor which I had bestowed on you," says the
    Lord GOD.
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM? WHY?
  • WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR ESTHER? WHY?
  • READ ESTHER 217
  • 17 The king loved Esther more than all the other
    women, and she obtained grace and favor in his
    sight more than all the virgins so he set the
    royal crown upon her head and made her queen
    instead of Vashti. NKJV

69
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1613-14
  • WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM? WHY?
  • READ LAMENTATIONS 215
  • 15 All who pass by clap their hands at you They
    hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of
    Jerusalem
  • "Is this the city that is called 'The perfection
    of beauty,
  • The joy of the whole earth'? NKJV
  • READ EZEKIEL 55-6
  • 5 "Thus says the Lord GOD 'This is Jerusalem I
    have set her in the midst of the nations and the
    countries all around her.
  • 6 She has rebelled against My judgments by doing
    wickedness more than the nations, and against My
    statutes more than the countries that are all
    around her for they have refused My judgments,
    and they have not walked in My statutes.' NKJV

70
READ EZEKIEL 1615-16
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 15 "But you trusted in your own beauty, played
    the harlot because of your fame, and poured out
    your harlotry on everyone passing by who would
    have it.
  • 16 You took some of your garments and adorned
    multicolored high places for yourself, and played
    the harlot on them. Such things should not
    happen, nor be.

71
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1615-16
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 15 "But you trusted in your own beauty, played
    the harlot because of your fame, and poured out
    your harlotry on everyone passing by who would
    have it.
  • 16 You took some of your garments and adorned
    multicolored high places for yourself, and played
    the harlot on them. Such things should not
    happen, nor be.
  • WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM? WHY?

72
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1615-16
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 15 "But you trusted in your own beauty, played
    the harlot because of your fame, and poured out
    your harlotry on everyone passing by who would
    have it.
  • 16 You took some of your garments and adorned
    multicolored high places for yourself, and played
    the harlot on them. Such things should not
    happen, nor be.
  • WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM? WHY?
  • READ ISAIAH 121
  • 21 How the faithful city has become a harlot! It
    was full of justice Righteousness lodged in it,
    But now murderers. NKJV
  • READ JEREMIAH 220
  • 20 "For of old I have broken your yoke and burst
    your bonds And you said, 'I will not
    transgress, When on every high hill and under
    every green tree You lay down, playing the
    harlot. NKJV

73
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1615-16
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 15 "But you trusted in your own beauty, played
    the harlot because of your fame, and poured out
    your harlotry on everyone passing by who would
    have it.
  • 16 You took some of your garments and adorned
    multicolored high places for yourself, and played
    the harlot on them. Such things should not
    happen, nor be.
  • WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM? WHY?
  • READ ISAIAH 577-8
  • 7 "On a lofty and high mountain You have set
    your bed Even there you went up To offer
    sacrifice.
  • 8 Behind the doors and their posts You have set
    up your remembrance For you have uncovered
    yourself to those other than Me, And have gone up
    to them You have enlarged your bed And made a
    covenant with them You have loved their bed,
    Where you saw their nudity.

74
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1615-16
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM? WHY?
  • READ MICAH 311
  • 11 Her heads judge for a bribe, Her priests
    teach for pay, And her prophets divine for money.
    Yet they lean on the LORD, and say, "Is not the
    LORD among us? No harm can come upon us." NKJV

75
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1615-16
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM? WHY?
  • READ JEREMIAH 36
  • 6 The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah
    the king "Have you seen what backsliding Israel
    has done? She has gone up on every high mountain
    and under every green tree, and there played the
    harlot. NKJV
  • WHAT DID JOSIAH DO?
  • READ 2 KINGS 237
  • 7 He tore down the ritual booths of the
    perverted persons that were in the house of the
    LORD, where the women wove hangings for the
    wooden image.

76
READ EZEKIEL 1617-19
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 17 You have also taken your beautiful jewelry
    from My gold and My silver, which I had given
    you, and made for yourself male images and played
    the harlot with them.
  • 18 You took your embroidered garments and covered
    them, and you set My oil and My incense before
    them.
  • 19 Also My food which I gave you the pastry of
    fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you you
    set it before them as sweet incense and so it
    was," says the Lord GOD.

77
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1617-19
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 17 You have also taken your beautiful jewelry
    from My gold and My silver, which I had given
    you, and made for yourself male images and played
    the harlot with them.
  • 18 You took your embroidered garments and covered
    them, and you set My oil and My incense before
    them.
  • 19 Also My food which I gave you the pastry of
    fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you You
    set it before them as sweet incense and so it
    was," says the Lord GOD.
  • WHO DID THE SILVER GOLD BELONG TO?
  • WHAT DID THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL DO WITH IT?
  • WHAT OFFERINGS DID ISRAEL MAKE TO THE LORD?
  • WHAT WERE THEY TO BE USED FOR?
  • WHAT DID THEY DO WITH THEM?

78
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1617
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 17 You have also taken your beautiful jewelry
    from My gold and My silver, which I had given
    you, and made for yourself male images and played
    the harlot with them.
  • WHO DID THE SILVER GOLD BELONG TO?
  • READ HAGGAI 28
  • 8 'The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,'
    says the LORD of hosts. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1617
  • 17 You have also taken your beautiful jewelry
    from My gold and My silver, which I had given
    you, and made for yourself male images and played
    the harlot with them.
  • WHAT DID THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL DO WITH IT?
  • READ EZEKIEL 720
  • 20 'As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it
    in majesty But they made from it The images of
    their abominations Their detestable things
    Therefore I have made it Like refuse to them.
  • READ AMOS 526
  • 26 You also carried Sikkuth your king And Chiun,
    your idols, The star of your gods, Which you made
    for yourselves. NKJV

80
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1618-19
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 18 You took your embroidered garments and covered
    them, and you set My oil and My incense before
    them.
  • 19 Also My food which I gave you the pastry of
    fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you You
    set it before them as sweet incense and so it
    was," says the Lord GOD.
  • WHAT OFFERINGS DID ISRAEL MAKE TO THE LORD?
  • WHAT WERE THEY TO BE USED FOR?
  • WHAT DID THEY DO WITH THEM?

81
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1618-19
  • WHAT OFFERINGS DID ISRAEL MAKE TO THE LORD?
  • READ EXODUS 253-7
  • 3 This is the offering which you shall take from
    them gold, silver, and bronze
  • 4 blue, purple, and scarlet thread, fine linen,
    and goats' hair
  • 5 ram skins dyed red, badger skins, and acacia
    wood
  • 6 oil for the light, and spices for the anointing
    oil and for the sweet incense
  • 7 onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod
    and in the breastplate. NKJV

82
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1618-19
  • 18 You took your embroidered garments and covered
    them, and you set My oil and My incense before
    them.
  • 19 Also My food which I gave you the pastry of
    fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you You
    set it before them as sweet incense and so it
    was," says the Lord GOD.
  • WHAT WERE THEY TO BE USED FOR?
  • INCENSE?
  • READ EXODUS 3034-35
  • 34 The LORD said to Moses "Take sweet spices,
    stacte and onycha and galbanum, and pure
    frankincense with these sweet spices there shall
    be equal amounts of each.
  • 35 You shall make of these an incense, a
    compound according to the art of the perfumer,
    salted, pure, and holy. NKJV (EXODUS 3729)

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1618-19
  • 18 You took your embroidered garments and covered
    them, and you set My oil and My incense before
    them.
  • 19 Also My food which I gave you the pastry of
    fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you You
    set it before them as sweet incense and so it
    was," says the Lord GOD.
  • WHAT WERE THEY TO BE USED FOR?
  • HOLY ANOINTING OIL?
  • READ EXODUS 3023-25
  • 23 "Also take for yourself quality spices five
    hundred shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much
    sweet-smelling cinnamon (two hundred and fifty
    shekels), two hundred and fifty shekels of
    sweet-smelling cane,
  • 24 five hundred shekels of cassia, according to
    the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive
    oil.
  • 25 You shall make from these a holy anointing
    oil, an ointment compounded according to the art
    of the perfumer. It shall be a holy anointing
    oil. (EXODUS 3729)

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1618-19
  • 18 You took your embroidered garments and covered
    them, and you set My oil and My incense before
    them.
  • 19 Also My food which I gave you the pastry of
    fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you You
    set it before them as sweet incense and so it
    was," says the Lord GOD.
  • WHAT WERE THEY TO BE USED FOR?
  • GRAIN OFFERING?
  • READ LEVITICUS 21-2
  • 1 'When anyone offers a grain offering to the
    LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour. And he
    shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.
  • 2 He shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priests,
    one of whom shall take from it his handful of
    fine flour and oil with all the frankincense. And
    the priest shall burn it as a memorial on the
    altar, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to
    the LORD. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1618-19
  • 18 You took your embroidered garments and covered
    them, and you set My oil and My incense before
    them.
  • 19 Also My food which I gave you the pastry of
    fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you You
    set it before them as sweet incense and so it
    was," says the Lord GOD.
  • WHAT DID THEY DO WITH THEM?
  • READ JEREMIAH 445
  • 5 But they did not listen or incline their ear
    to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense
    to other gods.
  • READ HOSEA 28
  • 8 For she did not know That I gave her grain,
    new wine, and oil, And multiplied her silver and
    gold
  • Which they prepared for Baal. NKJV

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READ EZEKIEL 1620-22
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 20 "Moreover you took your sons and your
    daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you
    sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts
    of harlotry a small matter,
  • 21 that you have slain My children and offered
    them up to them by causing them to pass through
    the fire?
  • 22 And in all your abominations and acts of
    harlotry you did not remember the days of your
    youth, when you were naked and bare, struggling
    in your blood.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1620-22
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 20 "Moreover you took your sons and your
    daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you
    sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts
    of harlotry a small matter,
  • 21 that you have slain My children and offered
    them up to them by causing them to pass through
    the fire?
  • 22 And in all your abominations and acts of
    harlotry you did not remember the days of your
    youth, when you were naked and bare, struggling
    in your blood.
  • WHO DID THE CHILDREN BELONG TO?
  • WHAT DID THEY DO WITH THEIR CHILDREN?
  • WHAT DID THEY FAIL TO REMEMBER?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1620
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 20 "Moreover you took your sons and your
    daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you
    sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts
    of harlotry a small matter,
  • WHO DID THE CHILDREN BELONG TO?
  • READ EXODUS 132
  • 2 "Consecrate to Me all the firstborn, whatever
    opens the womb among the children of Israel, both
    of man and beast it is Mine." NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1620
  • 20 "Moreover you took your sons and your
    daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you
    sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts
    of harlotry a small matter,
  • WHO DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM?
  • READ LEVITICUS 1821
  • 21 And you shall not let any of your descendants
    pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you
    profane the name of your God I am the LORD.
    NKJV
  • WHAT DID MICAH ASK?
  • READ MICAH 67
  • 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of
    rams,
  • Ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my
    firstborn for my transgression, The fruit of my
    body for the sin of my soul? NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1620-21
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 20 "Moreover you took your sons and your
    daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you
    sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts
    of harlotry a small matter,
  • 21 that you have slain My children and offered
    them up to them by causing them to pass through
    the fire?
  • WHAT DID ISRAEL DO WITH THEIR CHILDREN?
  • READ 2 KINGS 1717-18
  • 17 And they caused their sons and daughters to
    pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and
    soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in
    the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
  • 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with
    Israel, and removed them from His sight there
    was none left but the tribe of Judah alone. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1620-21
  • WHAT DID JUDAH DO WITH THEIR CHILDREN?
  • READ JEREMIAH 730-34
  • 30 The children of Judah have done evil in My
    sight," says the LORD. "They have set their
    abominations in the house which is called by My
    name, to pollute it.
  • 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet,
    which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to
    burn their sons and their daughters in the fire,
    which I did not command, nor did it come into My
    heart.
  • 32 "Therefore behold, the days are coming," says
    the LORD, "when it will no more be called Tophet,
    or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the
    Valley of Slaughter for they will bury in Tophet
    until there is no room.
  • 33 The corpses of this people will be food for
    the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the
    earth. And no one will frighten them away. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1620-21
  • WHAT DID JUDAH DO WITH THEIR CHILDREN?
  • READ JEREMIAH 194-6
  • 4 "They have forsaken Me and made this an alien
    place, because they have burned incense in it to
    other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor
    the kings of Judah have known, and have filled
    this place with the blood of the innocents
  • 5 (they have also built the high places of Baal,
    to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings
    to Baal, which I did not command or speak, nor
    did it come into My mind),
  • 6 therefore behold, the days are coming," says
    the LORD, "that this place shall no more be
    called Tophet or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom,
    but the Valley of Slaughter. NKJV (JEREMIAH
    3235)

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1622
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 22 And in all your abominations and acts of
    harlotry you did not remember the days of your
    youth, when you were naked and bare, struggling
    in your blood.
  • WHAT DID THEY FAIL TO REMEMBER?
  • THE DAYS OF THEIR YOUTH?
  • READ JEREMIAH 22-3
  • 2 "Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem,
    saying, 'Thus says the LORD "I remember you, The
    kindness of your youth, The love of your
    betrothal, When you went after Me in the
    wilderness, In a land not sown.
  • 3 Israel was holiness to the LORD, The
    first-fruits of His increase. All that devour him
    will offend Disaster will come upon them," says
    the LORD.'" NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1622
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 22 And in all your abominations and acts of
    harlotry you did not remember the days of your
    youth, when you were naked and bare, struggling
    in your blood.
  • WHAT DID THEY FAIL TO REMEMBER?
  • GOD'S MERCY ON HIS PEOPLE?
  • READ HOSEA 214-15
  • 14 'Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will
    bring her into the wilderness, And speak comfort
    to her.
  • 15 I will give her her vineyards from there, And
    the Valley of Achor as a door of hope She shall
    sing there,
  • As in the days of her youth, As in the day when
    she came up from the land of Egypt. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1622
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 22 And in all your abominations and acts of
    harlotry you did not remember the days of your
    youth, when you were naked and bare, struggling
    in your blood.
  • WHAT DID THEY FAIL TO REMEMBER?
  • GOD'S CONTINUING LOVE FOR ISRAEL?
  • READ HOSEA 111-4
  • 1 "When Israel was a child, I loved him, And out
    of Egypt I called My son.
  • 2 As they called them, So they went from them
    They sacrificed to the Baals, And burned incense
    to carved images.
  • 3 "I taught Ephraim to walk, Taking them by
    their arms But they did not know that I healed
    them.
  • 4 I drew them with gentle cords, With bands of
    love,
  • And I was to them as those who take the yoke from
    their neck. NKJV

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READ EZEKIEL 1623-24
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 23 "Then it was so, after all your wickedness
    'Woe, woe to you!' says the Lord GOD
  • 24 that you also built for yourself a shrine, and
    made a high place for yourself in every street.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1623-24
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 23 "Then it was so, after all your wickedness
    'Woe, woe to you!' says the Lord GOD
  • 24 that you also built for yourself a shrine, and
    made a high place for yourself in every street.
  • WHAT WAS THEIR WICKEDNESS?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 1623-24
  • JERUSALEM'S HARLOTRY
  • 23 "Then it was so, after all your wickedness
    'Woe, woe to you!' says the Lord GOD
  • 24 that you also built for yourself a shrine, and
    made a high place for
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