Ezekiel 20:25
23 However, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.
24 For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.
26 And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.
27 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: In this way also your fathers blasphemed Me by their unfaithfulness against Me.
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 also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.
- KJV
- Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
- WEB
- Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they couldn’t live.
- ASV
- Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live;
- DARBY
- And I also gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances whereby they should not live;
- BLB
- And also I gave to them statutes not good, and ordinances by which they could not live.
- ÅB
- Derfor gav jeg dem også bud som ikke var gode, og lover som de ikke kunne leve ved.
- OTB
- Så jeg lot dem følge lover som ikke var til nytte og forordninger som de ikke kunne trives ved;
- B1930
- Derfor gav jeg dem også bud som ikke var gode, og lover som de ikke kunde leve ved.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 81:12
So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
Read in contextEzekiel 20:39
And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.
Read in contextIsaiah 66:4
So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
Read in contextEzekiel 20:26
And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.
Read in context2 Thessalonians 2:9–11
The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:36
The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
Read in contextEzekiel 14:9–11
But if the prophet is enticed to speak a message, then it was I the LORD who enticed him, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 4:27–28
Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
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