EZEKIEL CHAPTER SIXTEEN

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• EZEKIEL CHAPTER SIXTEEN

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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

46
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.

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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

51
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

52
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

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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

55
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

57
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

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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

79
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)

83
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)

84
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

85
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.

87
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?

88
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

89
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

90
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

91
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)

93
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

95
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.

97
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?

98
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