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Ezekiel 14:6

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Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Return you, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

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Ezekiel delivered this message among Judean exiles in Babylon, the Mesopotamian empire that had deported many from Jerusalem. Jerusalem remained Judah’s covenant center, yet its people’s idolatry had provoked God’s judgment, making the call to repent especially urgent.

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Ezekiel 14:6 mentions Babylon and Jerusalem.

Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky
Jerusalem · Godot13

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