Ezekiel 20:15

So I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, not to bring them into the land which I had given them flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

In Context

14But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should be profaned before the nations, from which I brought them out, in their sight.

16Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols.

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Cross References

Numbers 26:64Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai.

Deuteronomy 1:35And when the Lord had heard the voice of your words, he was angry and swore, and said:

Psalms 106:26And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert;

Ezekiel 20:23Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the wilderness, to disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries :

Hebrews 3:18And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest: but to them that were incredulous?

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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