EZEKIEL CHAPTER FIVE

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1 EZEKIEL CHAPTER FIVE

2 PROPHET - DATE JONAH ( BC)? JOEL (800BC)? HOSEA ( BC)? MICAH ( BC)? AMOS (784BC)? ISAIAH ( BC)? NAHUM (700BC)? ZEPHANIAH (630BC)? JEREMIAH ( BC)? DANIEL ( BC)? HABAKKUK (598BC)? EZEKIEL ( BC)? OBADIAH ( BC)? EZRA ( BC)? HAGGAI ( BC)? ZECHARIAH ( BC)? ESTHER ( BC)? NEHEMIAH ( BC)? MALACHI ( BC)? KING / EVENT - DATE TIGLATH-PILESER ( BC)? HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) ( BC)? SHALMANESER ( BC)? ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? SENNACHERIB ( BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR ( BC)? ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) ( BC)? JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)? BELSHAZZAR ( BC)? CYRUS ( BC)? BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)? DARIUS ( BC)?

3 OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER FIVE JUDGMENTS: FAMINE, SWORD & DISPERSION V. 1-4 VENGEANCE AGAINST THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL V. 5-17

4 READ: EZEKIEL 5:1-2 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 1 "And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber's razor, and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair. 2 You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after them.

5 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:1-2 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 1 "And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber's razor, and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair. 2 You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after them. WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO? WHAT DID THIS REPRESENT?

6 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:1-2 WHAT DID THIS REPRESENT? EZEKIEL - THE JEWISH NATION? HIS HAIR - THE PEOPLE? THE RAZOR - THE CHALDEANS? CUTTING BEARD & HAIR - CALAMITIES & DISGRACE? DIVIDING OF THE HAIR - DEGREES OF PUNISHMENT? THE SCALES - DIVINE JUSTICE? HIS HAIR, DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS? 1/3 BURNT IN THE CITY - FAMINE & PESTILENCE 1/3 CUT IN PIECES - DIED DEFENDING JERUSALEM? 1/3 SCATTER IN THE WIND - TAKEN CAPTIVE?

7 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:1-2 1 "And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber's razor, and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair. 2 You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after them. WHAT DID THIS REPRESENT? WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THE PRIESTS? READ: LEVITICUS 21:5 5 They shall not make any bald place on their heads, nor shall they shave the edges of their beards nor make any cuttings in their flesh. NKJV

8 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:1 1 "And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber's razor, and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair. WHAT DID THIS REPRESENT? WHY DID JOB SHAVE HIS HEAD? READ: JOB 1: Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped. 21 And he said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD." NKJV

9 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:1 1 "And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber's razor, and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair. WHAT DID THIS REPRESENT? WHAT HAPPENED TO DAVID S SERVANTS? READ: 2 SAMUEL 10:4-5 4 Therefore Hanun took David's servants, shaved off half of their beards, cut off their garments in the middle, at their buttocks, and sent them away. 5 When they told David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, "Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return." NKJV

10 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:1-2 1 "And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber's razor, and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair. 2 You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after them. WHAT DID THIS REPRESENT? READ: ISAIAH 7:20 20 In the same day the Lord will shave with a hired razor, With those from beyond the River, with the king of Assyria, The head and the hair of the legs, And will also remove the beard. NKJV

11 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:1-2 1 "And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber's razor, and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair. 2 You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after them. WHAT DID THIS REPRESENT? READ: ZECHARIAH 13:8-9 8 And it shall come to pass in all the land, Says the LORD, "That two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, But one-third shall be left in it: 9 I will bring the one-third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them. I will say, 'This is My people'; And each one will say, 'The LORD is my God.'" NKJV

12 READ: EZEKIEL 5:3-4 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 3 You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment. 4 Then take some of them again and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into all the house of Israel.

13 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:3-4 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 3 You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment. 4 Then take some of them again and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into all the house of Israel. WHAT DID THIS REPRESENT? FEW HAIRS - FEW JEWS LEFT IN THE CITY? PART CAST INTO THE FIRE BONDAGE? WHO WAS LEFT BEHIND? READ: JEREMIAH 40:6 6 Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people who were left in the land. NKJV

14 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:3-4 WHAT HAPPENED TO GEDALIAH? READ: JEREMIAH 41:1-3 INSURRECTION AGAINST GEDALIAH 1 Now it came to pass in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family and of the officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. And there they ate bread together in Mizpah. 2 Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, arose and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land. 3 Ishmael also struck down all the Jews who were with him, that is, with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war. NKJV

15 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:3-4 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 3 You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment. 4 Then take some of them again and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into all the house of Israel. WHAT DID THIS REPRESENT? WHO WAS LEFT BEHIND? WHY? READ: JEREMIAH 52:16 16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers. NKJV

16 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:3-4 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 3 You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment. 4 Then take some of them again and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into all the house of Israel. WHAT DID THIS REPRESENT? WHO WAS LEFT BEHIND? WHY? READ: JEREMIAH 44: For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, 14 so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there shall escape or survive, lest they return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return and dwell. For none shall return except those who escape.'" NKJV

17 READ: EZEKIEL 5:5-6 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 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.'

18 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:5-6 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. WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT JERUSALEM? WHAT WAS JERUSALEM SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT? WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM?

19 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:5 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. WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT JERUSALEM? WHAT WAS JERUSALEM SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT? READ: JEREMIAH 3:17 17 "At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts. NKJV

20 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:5 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. WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT JERUSALEM? WHAT WAS JERUSALEM SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT? READ: JEREMIAH 3:19 19 "But I said: 'How can I put you among the children And give you a pleasant land, A beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations? "And I said: 'You shall call Me, "My Father, And not turn away from Me.' NKJV

21 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:6 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. WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT JERUSALEM? WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM? READ: 2 KINGS 17:33 33 They feared the LORD, yet served their own gods according to the rituals of the nations from among whom they were carried away. NKJV

22 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:6 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. WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT JERUSALEM? WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM? WHAT IS THE MESSAGE FOR US TODAY? READ: HEBREWS 10: Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? NKJV

23 READ: EZEKIEL 5:7-8 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes nor kept My judgments, nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you' 8 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.

24 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:7-8 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes nor kept My judgments, nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you' 8 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL? WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM?

25 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:7 7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes nor kept My judgments, nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you' WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL? WHAT DID THE LORD DO TO EGYPT? WHY? READ: EXODUS 12:12 12 'For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. NKJV

26 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:7 7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes nor kept My judgments, nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you' WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL? WHAT DID THE LORD DO TO EGYPT? READ: NUMBERS 33:4 WHY? 4 For the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had killed among them. Also on their gods the LORD had executed judgments. NKJV

27 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:8 8 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL? WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? READ: JEREMIAH 2:11 11 Has a nation changed its gods, Which are not gods? But My people have changed their Glory For what does not profit. NKJV READ: LAMENTATIONS 4:6 6 The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people Is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, Which was overthrown in a moment, With no hand to help her! NKJV

28 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:8 8 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL? WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? READ: DANIEL 9:12 12 And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem. NKJV

29 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:8 8 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL? WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? READ: ZECHARIAH 14:2 2 For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses rifled, And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city. NKJV

30 READ: EZEKIEL 5:9-10 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 9 And I will do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations. 10 Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds.

31 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:9-10 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 9 And I will do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations. 10 Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? WHY? DID THE LORD WARN THEM ABOUT THIS?

32 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5: And I will do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? WHY? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY? READ: MATTHEW 24: For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened. NKJV

33 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:10 10 Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? WHY? DID THE LORD WARN THEM ABOUT THIS? READ: LEVITICUS 26: 'And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me, 28 then I also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. NKJV

34 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:10 10 Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? WHY? DID THE LORD WARN THEM ABOUT THIS? READ: DEUTERONOMY 28: "They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you. 53 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you. NKJV

35 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:10 10 Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? WHY? WHAT DID THIS WOMAN SAY TO KING OF ISRAEL? READ: 2 KINGS 6: Then the king said to her, "What is troubling you?" And she answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.' 29 So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden her son." NKJV

36 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:10 10 Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? WHY? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH? READ: JEREMIAH 19:9 9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the desperation with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them to despair."' NKJV

37 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:10 WHAT DID JEREMIAH SAY TO THE LORD? READ: LAMENTATIONS 2:20 20 "See, O LORD, and consider! To whom have You done this? Should the women eat their offspring, The children they have cuddled? Should the priest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord? NKJV READ: LAMENTATIONS 4:10 10 The hands of the compassionate women Have cooked their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people. NKJV

38 READ: EZEKIEL 5:11-12 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 11 'Therefore, as I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity. 12 One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

39 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:11-12 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 11 'Therefore, as I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity. 12 One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. WHO DEFILED THE SANCTUARY? HOW? HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THIS?

40 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:11 11 'Therefore, as I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity. HOW DID MANASSEH DEFILE THE SANCTUARY? READ: 2 KINGS 21:7 7 He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

41 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:11 11 'Therefore, as I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity. HOW DID MANASSEH DEFILE THE SANCTUARY? READ: 2 KINGS 21: "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.

42 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:12 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 12 One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THIS? DID THE LORD WARN THEM ABOUT THIS? READ: LEVITICUS 26:33 33 I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. NKJV

43 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:12 12 One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THIS? READ: JEREMIAH 15:2 2 And it shall be, if they say to you, 'Where should we go?' then you shall tell them, 'Thus says the LORD: "Such as are for death, to death; And such as are for the sword, to the sword; And such as are for the famine, to the famine; And such as are for the captivity, to the captivity."' NKJV

44 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:12 12 One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THIS? READ: JEREMIAH 21: "Now you shall say to this people, 'Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death. 9 He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and defects to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be as a prize to him. 10 For I have set My face against this city for adversity and not for good," says the LORD. "It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon

45 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:12 HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THIS? READ: JEREMIAH 42: "The LORD has said concerning you, O remnant of Judah, 'Do not go to Egypt!' Know certainly that I have admonished you this day. 20 For you were hypocrites in your hearts when you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, 'Pray for us to the LORD our God, and according to all that the LORD your God says, so declare to us and we will do it.' 21 And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, or anything which He has sent you by me. 22 Now therefore, know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to dwell." NKJV

46 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:12 12 One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THIS? READ: LAMENTATIONS 26:25 25 And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. NKJV

47 READ: EZEKIEL 5:13-14 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 13 'Thus shall My anger be spent, and I will cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be avenged; and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them. 14 Moreover I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

48 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:13-14 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 13 'Thus shall My anger be spent, and I will cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be avenged; and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them. 14 Moreover I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by. HOW WILL THE LORD BE AVENGED? WHY? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL?

49 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:13 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 13 'Thus shall My anger be spent, and I will cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be avenged; and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them. HOW WILL THE LORD BE AVENGED? WHY? READ: DEUTERONOMY 28:63 63 And it shall be, that just as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess. NKJV

50 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:13 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 13 'Thus shall My anger be spent, and I will cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be avenged; and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them. HOW WILL THE LORD BE AVENGED? WHY? READ: PROVERBS 1: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes, 27 When your terror comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. NKJV

51 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:13 HOW WILL THE LORD BE AVENGED? WHY? READ: ISAIAH 24:1-3 1 Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, Distorts its surface And scatters abroad its inhabitants. 2 And it shall be: As with the people, so with the priest; As with the servant, so with his master; As with the maid, so with her mistress; As with the buyer, so with the seller; As with the lender, so with the borrower; As with the creditor, so with the debtor. 3 The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered, For the LORD has spoken this word. NKJV

52 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:14 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 14 Moreover I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL? READ: LAMENTATIONS 2:15 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

53 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:14 14 Moreover I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL? READ: 1 KINGS 9:8-9 8 And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?' 9 Then they will answer, 'Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore the LORD has brought all this calamity on them.'" NKJV

54 READ: EZEKIEL 5:15-17 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 15 'So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken. 16 When I send against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread. 17 So I will send against you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.'" NKJV

55 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:15-17 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM 15 'So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken. 16 When I send against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread. 17 So I will send against you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.'" NKJV WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? DID THE LORD WARN THEM ABOUT THIS? READ: DEUTERONOMY 32:23-27

56 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:15-17 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM DID THE LORD WARN THEM ABOUT THIS? READ: DEUTERONOMY 32: 'I will heap disasters on them; I will spend My arrows on them. 24 They shall be wasted with hunger, Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, With the poison of serpents of the dust. 25 The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within For the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs. NKJV

57 QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 5:15-17 A SWORD AGAINST JERUSALEM WHY DIDN T THE LORD UTTERLY DESTROY THEM? READ: DEUTERONOMY 32: I would have said, "I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men," 27 Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand, Lest they should say, "Our hand is high; And it is not the LORD who has done all this."' NKJV

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