Ezekiel 20:25

So I gave them commandments that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

In Context

24because they kept not my ordinances, and rejected my commandments, and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers.

26And I will defile them by their own decrees, when I pass through upon every one that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:27And the Lord shall scatter you among all nations, and you⌃ shall be left few in number among all the nations, among which the Lord shall bring you.

Ezekiel 14:9And if a prophet should cause to err and should speak, I the Lord have caused that prophet to err, and will stretch out my hand upon him, and will utterly destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

Ezekiel 20:39And as to you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord, even the Lord; Put away each one his evil practices, and hereafter if you⌃ listen to me, then shall you⌃ no more profane my holy name by your gifts and by devices.

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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