^7 (A)When you brought in ^(B)foreigners, ^(C)uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to defile it—My house—and when you offered ^(D)My food, ^(E)the fat and the blood, then they broke My covenant because of all your abominations.

Israel Resists the Holy Spirit

⁵¹ “You ^(A)stiff-necked^[a] and ^(B)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

²⁵ “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that ^(A)I will punish all who are circumcised with the uncircumcised— ²⁶ Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all who are in the ^(B)farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are ^(C)uncircumcised in the heart.”

^26 (A)Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them ^(B)in the days of Hezekiah.

⁶ So the leaders of Israel and the king ^(A)humbled themselves; and they said, ^(B)“The Lord is righteous.”

⁷ Now when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, ^(C)the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance. My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

²⁹ “See how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he ^(A)has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity in his days. ^(B)In the days of his son I will bring the calamity on his house.”

Not Legalism but Christ

¹¹ In Him you were also ^(A)circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by ^(B)putting off the body ^[a]of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,