Ezekiel 20:18
Then 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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In Context
19I am the Lord your God. Walk in my precepts, and observe my judgments, and accomplish them.
Cross References
Numbers 32:13And the Lord, being angry against Israel, led them in a course through the desert for forty years, until the entire generation, which had done evil in his sight, was consumed.
Psalms 78:6Pour out your wrath among the Gentiles, who have not known you, and upon the kingdoms that have not invoked your name.
Jeremiah 3:9And by the act of her fornication, she defiled the land. For she committed adultery with that which is stone and wood.
Jeremiah 32:23And they entered it and possessed it. But they did not obey your voice, and they did not walk in your law. And they did not do all of the things that you commanded them to do. And so, all of these evils have happened to them.
Ezekiel 20:7And I said to them: ‘Let each one cast away the offenses of his eyes, and do not choose to defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’
Luke 11:47Woe to you, who build the tombs of the prophets, while it is your fathers who killed them!
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 →