Ezekiel 11:18
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New International Version (©2011)
"They will return to it and remove all its vile images and detestable idols.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"When the people return to their homeland, they will remove every trace of their vile images and detestable idols.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When they arrive there, they will remove all its detestable things and practices from it.

International Standard Version (©2012)
When they return from there and cast away all of their loathsome things and detestable practices,

NET Bible (©2006)
"When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They will come and remove all the disgusting and detestable things that are there.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they shall come there, and they shall take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.

American King James Version
And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from there.

American Standard Version
And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall go in thither, and shall take away all the scandals, and all the abominations thereof from thence.

Darby Bible Translation
And they shall come thither, and they shall take away from thence all its detestable things and all its abominations.

English Revised Version
And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they shall come thither, and they shall take away from thence all its detestable things, and all its abominations.

World English Bible
They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of it and all its abominations from there.

Young's Literal Translation
And they have gone in thither. And turned aside all its detestable things, And all its abominations -- out of it.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:14-21 The pious captives in Babylon were insulted by the Jews who continued in Jerusalem; but God made gracious promises to them. It is promised, that God will give them one heart; a heart firmly fixed for God, and not wavering. All who are made holy have a new spirit, a new temper and dispositions; they act from new principles, walk by new rules, and aim at new ends. A new name, or a new face, will not serve without a new spirit. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. The carnal heart, like a stone, cannot be made to feel. Men live among the dead and dying, and are neither concerned nor humbled. He will make their hearts tender and fit to receive impressions: this is God's work, it is his gift by promise; and a wonderful and happy change is wrought by it, from death to life. Their practices shall be agreeable to those principles. These two must and will go together. When the sinner feels his need of these blessings, let him present the promises as prayers in the name of Christ, they will be performed.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they shall come thither,.... That those of the captivity shall come to the land of Israel, they or their posterity:

and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof; the idols of the nations, that had been there introduced, detestable to God and all good men:

and all the abominations thereof from thence; idols, as before, even all of them, so that idolatry should be wholly rooted out; this had its accomplishment under Zerubbabel, Ezra, Haggai, &c. when the worship of God was restored, and there was a reformation of many abuses in religion; and again in the times of the Maccabees; and will have a greater fulfilment at the time of the conversion of the Jews; when everything that is detestable and abominable among that people will be removed; of which conversion the following words are a prophecy.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

18. They have eschewed every vestige of idolatry ever since their return from Babylon. But still the Shekinah glory had departed, the ark was not restored, nor was the second temple strictly inhabited by God until He came who made it more glorious than the first temple (Hag 2:9); even then His stay was short, and ended in His being rejected; so that the full realization of the promise must still be future.

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A Promise of Restoration
…17Therefore say, Thus said the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. 18And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from there. 19And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: …

Jeremiah 16:18 I will repay them double for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled my inheritance with their detestable idols."
Ezekiel 5:11 Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your vile images and detestable practices, I myself will shave you; I will not look on you with pity or spare you.
Ezekiel 7:20 They took pride in their beautiful jewelry and used it to make their detestable idols. They made it into vile images; therefore I will make it a thing unclean for them.
Ezekiel 11:21 But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their vile images and detestable idols, I will bring down on their own heads what they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD."
Ezekiel 14:11 Then the people of Israel will no longer stray from me, nor will they defile themselves anymore with all their sins. They will be my people, and I will be their God, declares the Sovereign LORD.'"
Ezekiel 37:23 They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.