Ezekiel 20:26
And I will defile them by their own decrees, when I pass through upon every one that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
25So I gave them commandments that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.
Cross References
Leviticus 18:21And thou shalt not give of thy seed to serve a ruler; and thou shalt not profane my holy name; I am the Lord.
2 Kings 17:17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and auspices, and + 17:17 Gr. were sold.sold themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him.
2 Chronicles 28:3And he sacrificed to their idols in the valley of Benennom, and passed his children through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
Isaiah 63:17Why hast thou caused us to err, O Lord, from thy way? and hast hardened our hearts, that we should not fear thee? Return for thy servants' sake, for the sake of the tribes of thine inheritance,
Jeremiah 32:35And flight shall perish from the shepherds, and safety from the rams of the flock.
Ezekiel 16:20And thou tookest thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou borest, and didst sacrifice these to them to be destroyed. Thou didst go a-whoring as if that were little,
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 →