Ezekiel 20:16
Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
17Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.
Cross References
Exodus 32:1And the people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that may go before us: for as to this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him.
Numbers 25:2Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods.
Ezekiel 20:8But they provoked me, and would not hearken to me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: and I said I would pour out my indignation upon them, and accomplish my wrath against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 23:8Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which she had committed in Egypt: for they also lay with her in her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured out their fornication upon her.
Amos 5:26But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.
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 →