Ezekiel 20:17
Nevertheless my eye looked pityingly on them, so as not to destroy them, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.
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1 Samuel 24:10Behold, this day thy eyes have seen how that the Lord had delivered thee today into my hand in the cave, and some one said that I should kill thee: but my soul felt compassion for thee: and I said, I will not stretch forth my hand against my Lord; because he is the anointed of the Lord.
Psalms 78:37For their heart was not firm with him, and they were not faithful in his covenant.
Jeremiah 4:27For thus hath said the Lord, Desolate shall be the whole land; yet a full end will I not make.
Ezekiel 7:2And thou, son of man, thus hath said the Lord Eternal concerning the land of Israel, There is an end! the end is coming over the four corners of the land.
Ezekiel 9:10And as for me also, my eye shall not look with pity, and I will not spare; but I will bring their course upon their own head.
Nahum 1:8But with an overflowing flood will he utterly destroy the place of [Nineveh], and his enemies will he pursue with darkness.
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 →