King James Version
Ezekiel 14:5 in the King James Version says “That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”
Ezekiel 14:5 · KJV
Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. yourselves: or, others
For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
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properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
“That I may take”
H8610to manipulate, i.e., seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figuratively, to use unwarrantably
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“in their own heart”
H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“because they are all estranged”
H2114to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“from me through their idols”
H1544properly, a log (as round); by implication, an idol
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
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