Ezekiel 20:16
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.
15 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;
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.
18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
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
- because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
- KJV
- Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
- WEB
- because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
- ASV
- because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
- DARBY
- because they rejected mine ordinances and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
- BLB
- because My ordinances they rejected, and My statutes they did not walk in them, and My Sabbaths they profaned, for their heart was walking after their idols.
- ÅB
- fordi de forkastet mine lover og ikke fulgte mine bud og vanhelliget mine sabbater; for deres hjerte fulgte deres motbydelige avguder.
- OTB
- fordi de forkastet mine forordninger, fulgte ikke mine lover, og vanhelliget mine sabbater, for deres hjerter var viet til deres avguder.
- B1930
- fordi de forkastet mine lover og ikke fulgte mine bud og vanhelliget mine sabbater; for deres hjerte fulgte deres motbydelige avguder.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 15:39
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
Read in contextEzekiel 14:3–4
Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
Read in contextEzekiel 20:8
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Read in contextNumbers 25:2
And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
Read in contextActs 7:39–43
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Read in contextEzekiel 20:13–14
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.
Read in contextEzekiel 23:8
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
Read in contextAmos 5:25–26
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
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