Ezekiel 20:25
I also let them follow the regulations they wanted that weren't good; laws that wouldn't help them live.
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In The King James Version
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:27The Lord will scatter you among the other nations, and not many of you will survive in the countries where the Lord has exiled you.
Psalms 81:12So I sent them away to follow their stubborn thinking, living as they chose.
Ezekiel 14:9But if the prophet is deceived into giving a message, it was I the Lord who deceived him to do this. I will still reach out and destroy that prophet from my people Israel.
Ezekiel 20:39This is what the Lord God says to you, you people of Israel: All of you, go ahead and worship your idols. But after that if you don't listen to me you won't continue to disgrace me with your pagan offerings and idols.
2 Thessalonians 2:9He (the lawless one) comes to do Satan's work, having all kinds of powers, using miracles, and performing amazing but deceptive displays.
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 →