Ezekiel 20:17

Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

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

18And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye defiled with their idols:

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:10And said to Saul: Why dost thou hear the words of men that say David seeketh thy hurt?

Psalms 78:37But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.

Jeremiah 4:27For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall be desolate, but yet I will not utterly destroy.

Ezekiel 7:2And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God to the land of Israel: The end is come, the end is come upon the four quarters of the land.

Ezekiel 9:10Therefore neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have pity: I will requite their way upon their head.

Nahum 1:8But with a flood that passeth by, he will make an utter end of the place thereof: and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

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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