Ezekiel 20:15

And also, I have lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, || Not to bring them into the land that I had given, || Flowing with milk and honey, || It [is] a beauty to all the lands,

Literal Standard Version

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

14And I do [it] for My Name’s sake, || Not to defile [it] before the eyes of the nations, || Before whose eyes I brought them forth.

16Because they kicked against My judgments, || And they have not walked in My statutes, || And they have defiled My Sabbaths, || For their heart is going after their idols.

Read all of Ezekiel 20

Cross References

Numbers 26:64and among these there has not been a man of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai,

Deuteronomy 1:35Not one of these men of this evil generation sees the good land which I have sworn to give to your fathers,

Psalms 106:26And He lifts up His hand to them, || To cause them to fall in a wilderness,

Ezekiel 20:23I also, I have lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, || To scatter them among nations, || And to spread them through lands.

Hebrews 3:18And to whom did He swear that they will not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe?

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Ezekiel 20:15