Say to the provoking house: Know you not what these things mean? Tell them: Behold the king of Babylon cometh to Jerusalem: and he shall take away the king and the princes thereof and carry them with him to Babylon.

to the

Ezekiel 2:5,8 If so be they at least will hear, and if so be they will forbear, for they are a provoking house: and they shall know that there hath been a prophet in the midst of them. . . .

Ezekiel 3:9 I have made thy face like an adamant and like flint: fear them not, neither be thou dismayed at their presence: for they are a provoking house.

Ezekiel 12:9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to thee: What art thou doing?

Isaiah 1:2 Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.

Know

Ezekiel 24:19 And the people said to me: Why dost thou not tell us what these things mean that thou doest?

Exodus 12:26 And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of this service?

Deuteronomy 6:20 And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?

Joshua 4:6,21 That it may be a sign among you: and when your children shall ask you tomorrow, saying: What means these stones? . . .

Matthew 13:51 Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes.

Matthew 15:16,17 But he said: Are you also yet without understanding? . . .

Matthew 16:11 Why do you not understand that it was not concerning bread I said to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

Mark 4:13 And he saith to them: Are you ignorant of this, parable? and how shall you know all parables?

Luke 9:45 But they understood not this word: and it was hid from them, so that they perceived it not. And they were afraid to ask him concerning this word.

Acts 8:30 And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias. And he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest?

Behold

Ezekiel 17:3 And say: Thus saith the Lord God; A large eagle with great wings, long-limbed, full of feathers, and of variety, came to Libanus, and took away the marrow of the cedar.

Ezekiel 1:2 On the fifth day of the month, the same was the fifth year of the captivity of king Joachin,

2 Kings 24:10-16 At that time the servants of Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came up against Jerusalem, and the city was surrounded with their forts. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:9,10 Joachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord. . . .

Jeremiah 22:24-28 As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda were a ring on my right hand, I would pluck him thence. . . .

and led

Isaiah 39:7 And of thy children, that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 52:31-34 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Joachin king of Juda, in the twelfth month, the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Joachin king of Juda, and brought him forth out of prison. . . .