Ezekiel 20:25
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and ordinances whereby they should not live;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 4:27And the LORD shall scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither the LORD shall lead you away.
Psalms 81:12(81-13) So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.
Ezekiel 14:9And when the prophet is enticed and speaketh a word, I the LORD have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of My people Israel.
Ezekiel 20:39As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD: Go ye, serve every one his idols, even because ye will not hearken unto Me; but My holy name shall ye no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.
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 →