Ezekiel:14:1-11

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* And there came certain of the elders of Israel unto me , and sat before me . * And the word of Jehovah came unto me , saying , * Son of man , these men have set up their idols in their heart , and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face : should I be inquired of at all by them ? * Therefore speak to them , and say unto them , Thus saith the Lord Jehovah : Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart , and putteth the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face , and cometh to the prophet , I Jehovah will answer him according to this , according to the multitude of his idols : * that I may take the house of Israel by their own heart , because they are all estranged from me through their idols . * Therefore say unto the house of Israel , Thus saith the Lord Jehovah : Return ye , and turn yourselves from your idols ; and turn away your faces from all your abominations . * For every one of the house of Israel , or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel , who separateth himself from me , and setteth up his idols in his heart , and putteth the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face , and cometh to the prophet to inquire of me by him , I Jehovah will answer him by myself ; * and I will set my face against that man , and will make him desolate , [so that he shall be ] for a sign and for proverbs , and I will cut him off from the midst of my people : and ye shall know that I [am ] Jehovah . * And if the prophet be enticed and shall speak a word , I Jehovah have enticed that prophet ; and I will stretch out my hand against him , and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel . * And they shall bear their iniquity : the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of the inquirer ; * that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me , neither make themselves any more unclean with all their transgressions ; and they shall be my people , and I will be their God , saith the Lord Jehovah .

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