Ezekiel
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Intolerance in Ezekiel

  1. If a good person does something wrong after God "lays a stumbling block before him," then God will kill him. "He shall die in his sin" and whatever good he has done will be forgotten. 3:20

  2. God will decorate the land with the bones and dead bodies of those who worship a different god. 6:4-5

  3. God shows Ezekiel a group of women weeping for Tammuz. Tammuz was the Sumero-Accadian god of plant life. Each year after the summer solstice there was a period of ritual mourning for the loss of sunlight and the decline of vegetation. God calls it an abomination. 8:14-15

  4. God again vows to destroy those that dare worship something or someone other than him. 14:6-8

  5. God planned to "pour out [his] fury" on the Hebrews in Egypt for worshipping idols. But then he changed his mind, thank God. 20:7-8

  6. God will kill everyone that claps his hands or stamps his feet "against the land of Israel." When he's done with the killing everyone will know that he is the Lord. 25:6-17

  7. God says he will destroy Tyrus. He plans to kill everyone, but he is especially looking forward to killing all of the women. "And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD." 26:1-21

  8. God says that Zidon will know that he is the Lord when he \ sends "pestilence and blood into her streets." 28:22-23

  9. God tells Ezekiel to prophesy against the pharaoh and against all Egypt. God says he will feed the Egyptians to the birds and beasts. 29:2-5

  10. "The day ... of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen." God plans to wipe out the heathen. When? Soon. Really soon. 30:3

  11. God will punish Egypt and her allies by sending Nebuchadrezzar to "fill the land with the slain." Then he will make "the rivers dry," sell the land to "the wicked," make "the land waste," light fires, and kill all their young men with the sword. 30:4-26

    "And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt." (The Divine Pyromaniac) 30:8, 30:14, 30:16

  12. God will treat Pharaoh like a whale fished out of the sea. Every bird and beast in the world will feed upon him. 32:3-6

  13. Pharaoh and all his multitude, along with the uncircumcised, will be killed with the sword. 32:20-32

  14. Worshipping idols and other gods is "detestable." 37:23

  15. God "will send a fire on Magog ... and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord." 39:6-7

  16. No stranger or uncircumcised person may enter the sanctuary. 44:9

  17. Priests who sacrifice to idols will have God's hand against them and "shall bear their iniquity." 44:10-12