Ezekiel 20:25
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;
24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass 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 unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
Read in contextEzekiel 20:39
As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
Read in contextIsaiah 66:4
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
Read in contextEzekiel 20:26
And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
Read in context2 Thessalonians 2:9–11
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:36
The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
Read in contextEzekiel 14:9–11
And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 4:27–28
And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
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