Ezekiel 20:15

Yet did I also lift up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given [them], flowing with milk and honey, which is an ornament among all the countries.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

In Context

14But I acted for the sake of my name, so as not to profane it before the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had brought them forth.

16Because my ordinances they had despised, and in my statutes they had not walked, and my sabbaths they had profaned; for after their idols did their heart go.

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Cross References

Numbers 26:64And among these there was not one man of those whom Moses and Aaron the priest had numbered, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

Deuteronomy 1:35Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I have sworn to give unto your fathers;

Psalms 106:26He therefore lifted up his hand against them, to cause them to fall in the wilderness;

Ezekiel 20:23I also lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

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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