Ezekiel 20:11
And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.
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10So I made them go out of the land of Egypt and took them into the waste land.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:5I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage.
Deuteronomy 20:15So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.
Nehemiah 9:13And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:
Psalms 147:19He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.
Ezekiel 18:9And has been guided by my rules and has kept my laws and done them: he is upright, life will certainly be his, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:21But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 20:11-27
The Privileges and Sins of Israel. ( b. c. 592.) 10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. 11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. 12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my… Read the whole commentary →