Ezekiel 14 · Verse 5

Ezekiel 14:5

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, King James Version

Ezekiel 14:5 in other translations

BSBso that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’
WEBthat I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”’
ASVthat I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
YLTin order to catch the house of Israel by their heart, in that they have become estranged from off me by their idols--all of them.
DARBYthat I may take the house of Israel by their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
BBESo as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.
WebsterThat I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

What does Ezekiel 14:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
5. That I may take--that is, unveil and overtake with punishment the dissimulation and impiety of Israel hid in their own heart. Or, rather, "That I may punish them by answering them after their own hearts"; corresponding to "according to the multitude of his idols" (see on Eze 14:4); an instance is given in Eze 14:9; Ro 1:28; 2Th 2:11, God giving them up in wrath to their own lie. idols--though pretending to "inquire" of Me, "in their hearts" they are "estranged from Me," and love "idols."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 14:1-11

Threatenings against hypocrites. (Ezek 14:1-11) God's purpose to punish the guilty Jews, but a few should be saved. (Ezek 14:12-23) Verses 1-11 No outward form or reformation can be acceptable to God, so long as any idol possesses the heart; yet how many prefer their own devices and their own righteousness, to the way of salvation! Men's corruptions are idols in their hearts, and are of their own setting up; God…

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Ezekiel 14:5 in the original Hebrew

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לְמַ֛עַןle.Ma.'anso asH4616
תְּפֹ֥שׂte.Fosto captureH8610
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
בֵּֽית\־beit-[the] house ofH1004
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
בְּלִבָּ֑םbe.li.Bamby heart theirH3820
אֲשֶׁ֤ר'a.SherwhoH834
נָזֹ֙רוּ֙na.Zo.ruthey have become estrangedH2114
מֵֽעָלַ֔יme.'a.Laifrom with <the> meH5921
בְּגִלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֖םbe.gi.lu.lei.Hemby idols theirH1544
כֻּלָּֽם\׃\ \סku.Lamall of themH3605

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 14:5

  • Isaiah 1:4

    Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

  • Zechariah 11:8

    Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

  • Ezekiel 14:9-10

    And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him;

  • Jeremiah 2:11-13

    Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

  • Deuteronomy 32:15-16

    But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

  • Hebrews 3:12

    Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

  • Colossians 1:21

    And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

  • Romans 8:7

    Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

  • Jeremiah 2:5

    Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

  • Romans 1:30

    Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

  • Galatians 6:7

    Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

  • Ephesians 4:18

    Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I may.
9,10; Ho 10:2; Zec 7:11-14; 2Th 2:9-11
estranged.
De 32:15,16; Isa 1:4; *marg:
Jer 2:5,11-13,31,32; Zec 11:8; Ro 1:21-23,28,30; 8:7; Ga 6:7
Eph 4:18; Col 1:21; Heb 3:12

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Context

  • Ezekiel 14:4

    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;

  • Ezekiel 14:5

    That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

  • Ezekiel 14:6

    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.

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Ezekiel 14:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Para tomar á la casa de Israel en su corazón, que se han apartado de mí todos ellos en sus ídolos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
afin de prendre la maison d’Israël par leur propre cœur, car ils se sont tous séparés de moi par leurs idoles.
German
Elberfelder 1871
damit ich das Haus Israel an seinem Herzen fasse, weil sie allesamt durch ihre Götzen von mir abgewichen sind. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
ut capiatur domus Israël in corde suo, quo recesserunt a me in cunctis idolis suis.