Ezekiel 20:18

And 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.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

In Context

17Yet mine eyes spared them, so as not to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

19I am the Lord your God; walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;

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Cross References

Numbers 32:13And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and for forty years he caused them to wander in the wilderness, until all the generation which did evil in the sight of the Lord was extinct.

Psalms 78:6Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, 1 And upon the kingdoms which have not called upon thy name. 1

Jeremiah 3:9And her fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery with wood and stone.

Jeremiah 32:23and Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and everyone that is shaved round about the face,

Ezekiel 20:7And I said to them, Let every one cast away the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the devices of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

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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