Ezekiel 14:5
New International Version
I will do this to recapture the hearts of the people of Israel, who have all deserted me for their idols.’

New Living Translation
I will do this to capture the minds and hearts of all my people who have turned from me to worship their detestable idols.’

English Standard Version
that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols.

Berean Standard Bible
so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’

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

New King James Version
that I may seize the house of Israel by their heart, because they are all estranged from Me by their idols.” ’

New American Standard Bible
in order to take hold of the hearts of the house of Israel who have turned away from Me due to all their idols.”’

NASB 1995
in order to lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel who are estranged from Me through all their idols."’

NASB 1977
in order to lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel who are estranged from Me through all their idols.”’

Legacy Standard Bible
in order to seize the house of Israel by their heart, those who are estranged from Me through all their idols.”’

Amplified Bible
in order that I may take hold of the heart (mind) of the house of Israel who are all estranged from Me because of their idols.”’

Christian Standard Bible
so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their hearts. They are all estranged from me because of their idols.’

Holman Christian Standard Bible
so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their hearts. They are all estranged from Me because of their idols.”

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because I shall seize the house of Israel in their heart, because they have departed from me by all their idols

Brenton Septuagint Translation
that he should turn aside the house of Israel, according to their hearts that are estranged from me in their thoughts.

Contemporary English Version
When they hear my message, maybe they will see that they need to turn back to me and stop worshiping those idols.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart, with which they have departed from me through all their idols.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I will do this to recapture the hearts of the nation of Israel. They have deserted me because of their disgusting idols.'

Good News Translation
All those idols have turned the Israelites away from me, but by my answer I hope to win back their loyalty.

International Standard Version
I'll do this in order to capture the hearts of Israel's house who have become alienated from me due to all of their idols."'"

JPS Tanakh 1917
that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all turned away from Me through their idols.

Literal Standard Version
in 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.

Majority Standard Bible
so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’

New American Bible
in order to catch the hearts of the house of Israel, estranged from me because of all their idols.

NET Bible
I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.'

New Revised Standard Version
in order that I may take hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, all of whom are estranged from me through their idols.

New Heart English Bible
that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols."'

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

World English Bible
that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”’

Young's Literal Translation
in 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.

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Context
Idolatrous Elders Condemned
4Therefore speak to them and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When any Israelite sets up idols in his heart and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him according to his great idolatry, 5so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’ 6Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Repent and turn away from your idols; turn your faces away from all your abominations.…

Cross References
Isaiah 1:4
Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

Jeremiah 17:10
I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

Zechariah 7:12
They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.

Zechariah 11:8
And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.


Treasury of Scripture

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

I may

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…

Hosea 10:2
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

Zechariah 7:11-14
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear…

estranged

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…

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.

Jeremiah 2:5,11-13,31,32
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? …

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Ezekiel 14
1. God answers idolaters according to their own heart
6. They are exhorted to repent, for fear of judgments, by means of seduced prophets
12. God's irrevocable sentence of famine
15. of wild beasts
17. of the sword
19. and of pestilence
22. A remnant shall be reserved for example of others














Verse 5. - That I may take the house of Israel, etc. The words me a threat rather than a promise. The "double-hearted" shall be taken in the snare which they have made for themselves.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
so that
לְמַ֛עַן (lə·ma·‘an)
Conjunction
Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent

I may take hold
תְּפֹ֥שׂ (tə·p̄ōś)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 8610: To manipulate, seize, chiefly to capture, wield, to overlay, to use unwarrantably

of the hearts
בְּלִבָּ֑ם (bə·lib·bām)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

of the [people]
בֵּֽית־ (bêṯ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

of Israel.
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

For
אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

because of their idols,
בְּגִלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֖ם (bə·ḡil·lū·lê·hem)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1544: A log, an idol

they are all
כֻּלָּֽם׃ (kul·lām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

estranged
נָזֹ֙רוּ֙ (nā·zō·rū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery

from Me.’
מֵֽעָלַ֔י (mê·‘ā·lay)
Preposition-m | first person common singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against


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