Ezekiel 20:17

Yet my eye was lenient concerning them, so that I did not utterly destroy them, nor did I consume them in the desert.

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In The King James Version

Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

In Context

16For they cast aside my judgments, and they did not walk in my precepts, and they violated my Sabbaths. For their heart went after idols.

18Then I said to their sons in the wilderness: ‘Do not choose to advance by the precepts of your fathers, nor should you observe their judgments. And do not be defiled by their idols.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:10And he said to Saul: “Why do you listen to the words of men who say: ‘David seeks evil against you?’

Jeremiah 4:27For thus says the Lord: “All the earth will be desolate, but I will not yet bring about its consummation.

Ezekiel 7:2“And as for you, son of man: Thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: The end is coming, the end is coming, over the four regions of the earth.

Ezekiel 9:10Therefore, my eye will not be lenient, and I will not take pity. I will repay their own way upon their head.”

Nahum 1:8And in the flood that passes over, he brings to consummation the end of his place. And darkness shall pursue his adversaries.

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 →

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