Ezekiel 20:19
17 Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.
18 In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.
20 Keep My Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’
21 But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against 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
- I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.
- KJV
- I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
- WEB
- I am the LORD your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them.
- ASV
- I am Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;
- DARBY
- I [am] Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;
- BLB
- I [am] YHWH your⁺ God; in My statutes you must walk, and My ordinances you must keep and do them,
- ÅB
- Jeg er Herren deres Gud; følg mine bud og hold mine lover og gjør etter dem!
- OTB
- Jeg er Herren deres Gud; følg mine lover og vær nøye med å holde mine forordninger.
- B1930
- Jeg er Herren eders Gud; følg mine bud og hold mine lover og gjør efter dem!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 36:27
And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 5:32–6:8
So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.
Read in contextPsalms 105:45
that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
Read in contextJeremiah 3:22–23
“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
Read in contextPsalms 81:9–10
There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
Read in contextEzekiel 37:24
My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 12:1
These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.
Read in contextEzekiel 11:20
so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
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