Ezekiel 20:25
And further, I gave them rules which were not good and orders in which there was no life for them;
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In The King James Version
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:27And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.
Psalms 81:12\81:11\But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.
Ezekiel 14:9And if the prophet, tricked by deceit, says anything, it is I the Lord by whom he has been tricked, and I will put out my hand against him, and he will be cut off from among my people Israel.
Ezekiel 20:39As for you, O children of Israel, the Lord has said: Let every man completely put away his images and give ear to me: and let my holy name no longer be shamed by your offerings and your images.
2 Thessalonians 2:9Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
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 →