Ezekiel 20:17

Yet mine eyes spared them, so as not to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

In Context

16because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my commandments, but profaned my Sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts.

18And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not ye in the customs of your fathers, and keep not their ordinances, and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves with them.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:10And David said to Saul, Why dost thou hearken to the words of the people, saying, Behold, David seeks thy life?

Jeremiah 4:27Thus saith the Lord, The whole land shall be desolate; but I will not make a full end.

Ezekiel 7:2Thus saith the Lord; An end is come to the land of Israel, the end is come on the four corners of the land.

Ezekiel 9:10Therefore mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have any mercy: I have recompensed their ways upon their heads.

Nahum 1:8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end: darkness shall pursue those that rise up against him and his enemies.

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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