Ezekiel 20:25

Therefore, I also gave them precepts that were not good, and judgments by which they shall not live.

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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;

In Context

24For they had not accomplished my judgments, and they had rejected my precepts, and they had violated my Sabbaths. And their eyes had been after the idols of their fathers.

26And I defiled them by their own gifts, when they offered everything that opened the womb, because of their offenses. And they shall know that I am the Lord.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:27And he will scatter you among all the nations, and few of you will remain among those nations, to which the Lord will lead you.

Ezekiel 14:9And when a prophet has gone astray and has spoken a word: I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet. And I will extend my hand over him, and I will wipe him away from the midst of my people, Israel.

Ezekiel 20:39And as for you, house of Israel: thus says the Lord God: Walk, each one of you, after your idols and serve them. But if in this also you will not listen to me, and you continue to defile my holy name with your gifts and with your idols,

2 Thessalonians 2:9him whose advent is accompanied by the works of Satan, with every kind of power and signs and false miracles,

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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