Ezekiel · Berean Standard Bible
Ezekiel 11 Berean Standard Bible
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1 Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders of the people.
1 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh’s house, which looks eastward. Behold, twenty-five men were at the door of the gate; and I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
2 And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.
2 He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;
3 They are saying, ‘Is not the time near to build houses? The city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.’
3 who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’
4 Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, O son of man!”
4 Therefore prophesy against them. Prophesy, son of man.”
5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me and told me to declare that this is what the LORD says: “That is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; and I know the thoughts that arise in your minds.
5 Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.
6 You have multiplied those you killed in this city and filled its streets with the dead.
6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.”
7 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: The slain you have laid within this city are the meat, and the city is the pot; but I will remove you from it.
7 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Your slain whom you have laid in the middle of it, they are the meat, and this is the cauldron; but you will be brought out of the middle of it.
8 You fear the sword, so I will bring the sword against you, declares the Lord GOD.
8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
9 I will bring you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners, and I will execute judgments against you.
9 “I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
10 You will fall by the sword, and I will judge you even to the borders of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
10 You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
11 The city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be the meat within it. I will judge you even to the borders of Israel.
11 This will not be your cauldron, neither will you be the meat in the middle of it. I will judge you in the border of Israel.
12 Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”
12 You will know that I am Yahweh, for you have not walked in my statutes. You have not executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”’”
13 Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Oh, Lord GOD, will You bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?”
13 When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”
14 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
14 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
15 “Son of man, your brothers—your relatives, your fellow exiles, and the whole house of Israel—are those of whom the people of Jerusalem have said, ‘They are far away from the LORD; this land has been given to us as a possession.’
15 “Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are the ones to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from Yahweh. This land has been given to us for a possession.’
16 Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’
16 “Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.”’
17 Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries to which you have been scattered, and I will give back to you the land of Israel.’
17 “Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”
18 When they return to it, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations.
18 “‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.
19 And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
19 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh,
20 so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
21 But as for those whose hearts pursue detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
22 Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, spread their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.
22 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them. The glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
23 And the glory of the LORD rose up from within the city and stood over the mountain east of the city.
23 Yahweh’s glory went up from the middle of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
24 And the Spirit lifted me up and carried me back to Chaldea, to the exiles in the vision given by the Spirit of God. After the vision had gone up from me,
24 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the captives. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
25 I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.
25 Then I spoke to the captives all the things that Yahweh had shown me.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Azzur
Named as the father of Jaazaniah, a leader of the people.
Cited in the guide: Ezekiel 11:1
Benaiah
Named as the father of Pelatiah, a leader of the people.
Cited in the guide: Ezekiel 11:1
Jaazaniah
Leader of the people seen at the east gate of the temple in Ezekiel's vision, who gave wicked counsel in the city.
Cited in the guide: Ezekiel 11:1
Pelatiah
Leader of the people seen at the east gate of the temple in Ezekiel's vision, who died as Ezekiel prophesied.
Cited in the guide: Ezekiel 11:1; Ezekiel 11:13
Cross references (24)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ezekiel 3:12; Ezekiel 3:14; Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 8:16; Ezekiel 11:24
- 2 Isaiah 30:1; Jeremiah 5:5; Psalm 2:1–2; Psalm 52:2; Isaiah 59:4
- 3 Ezekiel 12:22; Ezekiel 12:27; Ezekiel 24:3–14; Amos 6:5; 2 Peter 3:4
- 4 Isaiah 58:1; Ezekiel 20:46–47; Hosea 6:5; Ezekiel 3:17–21; Ezekiel 25:2
- 5 Jeremiah 17:10; Revelation 2:23; Ezekiel 2:2; Jeremiah 16:17; Ezekiel 8:1
- 6 Ezekiel 7:23; Isaiah 1:15; Ezekiel 22:12; Ezekiel 22:27; Ezekiel 22:2–6
- 7 Micah 3:2–3; Ezekiel 24:3–13; 2 Kings 25:18–22; Jeremiah 52:24–27; Ezekiel 3:9–11
- 8 Proverbs 10:24; Isaiah 66:4; Job 3:25; Isaiah 24:17–18; Jeremiah 38:19–23
- 9 Ezekiel 5:8; Psalm 106:41; Deuteronomy 28:36; Ezekiel 16:41; Deuteronomy 28:49–50
- 10 2 Kings 14:25; Jeremiah 52:9–10; Jeremiah 39:6; Ezekiel 6:7; 2 Kings 25:19–21
- 11 Ezekiel 11:3; Ezekiel 11:7–10
- 12 Ezekiel 8:10; Ezekiel 8:14; Ezekiel 8:16; Psalm 106:35–39; 2 Chronicles 36:14
- 13 Ezekiel 11:1; Ezekiel 9:8; Acts 5:5; Jeremiah 28:15–17; Joshua 7:6–9
- 15 Ezekiel 33:24; Isaiah 66:5; Jeremiah 24:1–5; Isaiah 65:5; John 16:2
- 16 Isaiah 8:14; Psalm 91:1; Psalm 90:1; Deuteronomy 30:3–4; Psalm 31:20
- 17 Ezekiel 28:25; Ezekiel 34:13; Jeremiah 3:18; Ezekiel 36:24; Jeremiah 24:5
- 18 Ezekiel 37:23; Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 42:7–8; Ezekiel 7:20; Isaiah 1:25–27
- 19 Ezekiel 36:26–27; Jeremiah 31:33; Psalm 51:10; Jeremiah 32:39–40; Jeremiah 24:7
- 20 Ezekiel 14:11; Psalm 105:45; Titus 2:11–12; Jeremiah 30:22; Luke 1:6
- 21 Ezekiel 9:10; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Ezekiel 11:18; Ezekiel 22:31; James 1:14–15
- 22 Ezekiel 10:19; Ezekiel 1:19–20
- 23 Zechariah 14:4; Ezekiel 8:4; Ezekiel 43:2; Ezekiel 10:4; Matthew 23:37–24:2
- 24 Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 3:12; Ezekiel 11:1; Acts 10:16; Ezekiel 1:3
- 25 Ezekiel 3:4; Ezekiel 3:17; Ezekiel 3:27; Ezekiel 2:7
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Ezekiel also speaks thus, The Spirit of the Lord came upon me, and said unto me, Thus saith the Lord.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Also thou hast in Ezekiel (if thou be not now weary of listening), what has already been quoted, And the Spirit fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the Lord.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
And again in Ezekiel, And he brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldæa, to them of the captivity.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)