--- title: Ezekiel 11 slug: kjv/ezekiel-11 createdAt: 2024-08-21T04:57:16.745Z --- **1 **Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. **2 **Then said he unto me, Son of man, these *are* the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: **3 **Which say, *It is* not near; let us build houses: this *city is* the caldron, and we *be* the flesh. **4 **Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. **5 **And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, *every one of* them. **6 **Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain. **7 **Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they *are* the flesh, and this *city is* the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. **8 **Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD. **9 **And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. **10 **Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I *am* the LORD. **11 **This *city* shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; *but* I will judge you in the border of Israel: **12 **And ye shall know that I *am* the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that *are* round about you. **13 **And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel? **14 **Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, **15 **Son of man, thy brethren, *even* thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, *are* they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession. **16 **Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. **17 **Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. **18 **And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. **19 **And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: **20 **That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. **21 **But *as for them* whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD. **22 **Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel *was* over them above. **23 **And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which *is* on the east side of the city. **24 **Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. **25 **Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me.