Ezekiel 20:11
And I gave them my statutes, and my ordinances made I known to them, which a man is to do, that he may live through them.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
10I therefore caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:5See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, just as the Lord my God commanded me; that ye may do so in the midst of the land whither ye go to take possession of it.
Deuteronomy 20:15Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Nehemiah 9:13Also on mount Sinai camest thou down, and spokest with them from heaven; and thou gavest them upright ordinances, and truthful laws, good statutes and commandments;
Psalms 147:19He declareth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances unto Israel.
Ezekiel 18:9In my statutes he walketh steadfastly, and my ordinances he keepeth to deal truly: he is righteous, he shall surely live, saith the Lord Eternal.
Ezekiel 20:21Nevertheless the children rebelled against me; in my statutes did they not walk, and my ordinances they kept not to do them, which a man is to do, that he may live through them; my sabbaths they profaned: and I then thought to pour out my fury over them, to let out all my anger against them in the wilderness.
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 →