Ezekiel 20:15
13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
14 But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—
- KJV
- Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
- WEB
- Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands,
- ASV
- Moreover also I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
- DARBY
- And I also lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land that I had given [them], flowing with milk and honey, which is the ornament of all lands;
- BLB
- And also I lifted My hand to them in the wilderness not to bring them into the land that I had given, flowing with milk and honey—the glory it is of all the lands,
- ÅB
- Men jeg løftet også min hånd for dem i ørkenen og svor at jeg ikke ville la dem komme inn i det land som jeg hadde gitt dem, det land som flyter med melk og honning, det fagreste av alle land,
- OTB
- Også, jeg sverget til dem i ørkenen at jeg ikke ville føre dem inn i det landet jeg hadde gitt dem—et land som flyter med melk og honning, det herligste av alle land—
- B1930
- Men jeg løftet også min hånd for dem i ørkenen og svor at jeg ikke vilde la dem komme inn i det land som jeg hadde gitt dem, det land som flyter med melk og honning, det fagreste av alle land,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 95:11
Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Read in contextPsalms 106:26
Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
Read in contextHebrews 3:11
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Read in contextHebrews 3:18
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
Read in contextEzekiel 20:23
I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
Read in contextNumbers 26:64–65
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 1:34–35
And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
Read in contextHebrews 4:3
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
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