🔥WEB · Ezekiel 20:42

What does Ezekiel 20:42 mean?

"You will know that I am Yahweh when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your fathers."

— Ezekiel 20:42 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

39

“‘As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.

40

For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.

41

I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

42

You will know that I am Yahweh when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your fathers.

43

There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

44

You will know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

45

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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