Ezekiel 20:18
And 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:
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.
19I am the Lord your God: walk ye in my statutes, and observe my judgments, and do them.
Cross References
Numbers 32:13And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil in his sight, was consumed.
Psalms 78:6that another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children.
Jeremiah 3:9And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.
Jeremiah 32:23And they came in, and possessed it: but they obeyed not thy voice, and they walked not in thy law: and they did not any of those things that thou didst command them to do, and all these evils are come upon them.
Ezekiel 20:7And I said to them: Let every man cast away the scandals of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Luke 11:47Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers 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 →