Ezekiel 20:31

Tree of Life Version

When offering your gifts, making your sons pass through the fire, you keep polluting yourselves with all your idols, up to this day. So should I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“I will not be inquired of by you.

Cross References

Job 27:10

Will he delight in Shaddai? Will he call upon God at all times?

Job 27:8

For what hope has the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes his soul?

Psalm 66:18

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Proverbs 28:9

One who turns his ear from hearing Torah —even his prayer is an abomination.

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. When you multiply prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood!”

Isaiah 57:5

You who burn with lust among the oaks and under every green tree, who sacrifice your children in the wadis and under the clefts of the rocks?

Jeremiah 14:12

If they fast, I will not hear their cry. If they offer burnt offering or grain offering, I will not accept them. Instead I will consume them with sword, with famine and with plague.”

Jeremiah 19:5

They have built high places for Baal, in order to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal—something I never commanded, nor mentioned, nor did it ever come into My mind.’”

Jeremiah 7:31

They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire—which I did not command, nor did it even enter My mind.

Ezekiel 16:20

“You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore for Me, and sacrificed them to be eaten by them. Were your obscene practices not enough?

Ezekiel 16:36

Thus says Adonai Elohim: “Because your filth was poured out and your nakedness exposed through your harlotry with your lovers, because of all the idols of your abominations, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,

Ezekiel 20:26

I let them become polluted in their own gifts, when they offered up all that opened the womb to pass through the fire, so that I might make them desolate, so that they would know that I am Adonai.

Ezekiel 20:3

“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel. Say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live’—it is a declaration of Adonai—‘I will not be inquired of by you.’

Ezekiel 23:37

For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols and even offered their children, whom they bore for Me, to be devoured.

Ezekiel 33:30

“Now as for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses. Each one speaks to one another, each saying to his brother: ‘Come now, hear what message is coming forth from Adonai!’

Amos 8:12

So people will wander from sea to sea and roam from north to east, searching for the word of Adonai, but they will not find it.

Zechariah 7:13

It came about that just as He called and they did not listen, so they would call and I would not listen,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.