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Ezekiel 20:17

Even so I was sorry for them and I didn't destroy them; I didn't wipe them out in the desert.

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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 repeatedly rejected my regulations, refused to observe my laws, and violated my Sabbaths, and because they chose to continue worshiping idols.

18I told their children in the desert: ‘Don't do what your fathers told you to do. Don't follow their practices. Don't make yourselves unclean by worshiping their idols.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:10“Just look! You've seen with your own eyes today that the Lord handed you over to me in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I showed you compassion, and said, ‘I refuse to attack my master, for he is the Lord's anointed one.’

Psalms 78:37Deep down they were not sincere, and did not keep the agreement they had with him.

Jeremiah 4:27This is what the Lord says: “The whole country will be devastated, but I won't do so completely.

Ezekiel 7:2“Son of man, this is what the Lord God says to the people living in Israel: The end is here! The end has arrived throughout the country.

Ezekiel 9:10But I certainly won't be kind to them or have mercy on them. I will make sure they suffer the consequences of what they've done.”

Nahum 1:8but those who oppose him will be swept away by a tremendous flood to their destruction. He pursues his enemies into the darkness of death.

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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