Ezekiel 33:23-24

The Lord informed the prophet about the attitude of the Jews still in the land. The few Jews who still lived in the waste places of the Promised Land were claiming that since God had promised that land to Abraham they were right in staying in it (cf. Ezekiel 11:15; Matthew 3:9; Luke 3:8; John 8:33; John 8:39). But Jeremiah had told the Jews in the land to submit to the Babylonians (Jeremiah 40-44).

"The lack of spiritual sensitivity and the smug self-interest evident in the quotation contrast with Abraham’s total dependence on God." [Note: Block, The Book . . . 48, p. 260.]