Contradictions and Paradoxes in Ezekiel 37:23

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Ezekiel 37:23 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Ezekiel 37:23. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Ezekiel, God promises that the people will stop doing bad things and worshiping false gods. He will help and clean them, making them His special people, and He will be their God.

Ezekiel 37:23: Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

Contradiction with Ezekiel 23:39

This verse mentions idols and worshiping in the temple, while Ezekiel 37:23 emphasizes turning away from idols and sin.

Ezekiel 23:39: For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

Contradiction with Numbers 21:9

This verse involves the use of a brass serpent, which can be seen as an idol, contrasting with Ezekiel 37:23's stance against idols.

Numbers 21:9: And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

Contradiction with 1 Kings 11:4-8

Solomon's heart turning to other gods contradicts the instruction in Ezekiel 37:23 to turn away from idolatry.

1 Kings 11:4-8: For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as [was] the heart of David his father.

Contradiction with Exodus 32:4

The creation of the golden calf as an idol is contrary to the call in Ezekiel 37:23 to forsake idols.

Exodus 32:4: And he received [them] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 10:3-5

This verse's description of idol fashioning contrasts with the directive in Ezekiel 37:23 to abandon idols.

Jeremiah 10:3-5: For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. [customs...: Heb. statutes, or, ordinances are vanity]

Contradiction with Judges 10:13-14

Israel is told God will not deliver them because they turned to idols, which contradicts the message in Ezekiel 37:23 of deliverance upon turning away from idols.

Judges 10:13-14: Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.

Contradiction with Isaiah 2:8

The land being full of idols contrasts with Ezekiel 37:23, which calls for no idols.

Isaiah 2:8: Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
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