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  • Ezekiel 23:1-49 | And You Shall Know That I Am YHWH

    Ezekiel's final indictment of Jerusalem is another vulgar portrayal of whoring women: Oholah ("my tent"; Samaria) and Oholibah ("my tent is in her"; Jerusalem). They were corrupted in Egypt; Oholah had met her humiliating fate, and Oholibah was about to join her.

    And You Shall Know That I Am YHWH | Episode 24 | Ezekiel 23:1-49

    22 min
  • Ezekiel 20:27-44 | And You Shall Know That I Am YHWH

    Ezekiel's generation had walked in the ways of their fathers. Judgment was coming. Restoration would come for another generation, but with tears and lamentation for the traumas endured.

    And You Shall Know That I Am YHWH | Episode 21 | Ezekiel 20:27-44

    Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, "Thus saith the Lord YHWH: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. For when I had brought them into the land, which I sware to give unto them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there their drink-offerings. Then I said unto them, 'What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go?'"

    So the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
    "Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord YHWH: Do ye pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play ye the harlot after their abominations? and when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, do ye pollute yourselves with all your idols unto this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live," saith the Lord YHWH, "I will not be inquired of by you; and that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, in that ye say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone."

    "As I live," saith the Lord YHWH, "surely with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, will I be king over you. And I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out; and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face. Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, saith the Lord YHWH. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am YHWH."

    As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord YHWH: "Go ye, serve every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me; but my holy name shall ye no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols. For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord YHWH, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the land: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things. As a sweet savor will I accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations. And ye shall know that I am YHWH, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I sware to give unto your fathers. And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have polluted yourselves; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed. And ye shall know that I am YHWH, when I have dealt with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel," saith the Lord YHWH.

    22 min
  • Ezekiel 19:1-14 | And You Shall Know That I Am YHWH

    Two kings of Judah, Jehoahaz and Jehoiachin, had been taken away into exile. Ezekiel laments for their fate, which is the end of the Davidic kingdom.

    And You Shall Know That I Am YHWH | Episode 19 | Ezekiel 19:1-14

    Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, and say,

    What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps. And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks unto the land of Egypt.
    Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion. And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring. Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit. And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

    Thy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. And it had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches. But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them. And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it hath devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule.

    This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

    16 min
  • Ezekiel 16:1-34 | And You Shall Know That I Am YHWH

    YHWH directed Ezekiel to declare a metaphorical condemnation of Jerusalem. What he uttered proved ribald and vulgar, certainly not suitable for work and remains offensive even to modern sensibilities. But why? To what end?

    And You Shall Know That I Am YHWH | Episode 15 | Ezekiel 16:1-34

    21 min

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