Ezekiel 20:22

But I wrought so that my name might not be at all profaned before the Gentiles; and I brought them out in their sight.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.

In Context

21But they provoked me, and their children walked not in my commandments, and they took no heed to mine ordinances to do them, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned my Sabbaths: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish mine anger upon them.

23I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, and disperse them in the countries;

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Cross References

Job 13:21Withhold thine hand from me: 1 And let not thy fear terrify me. 1

Psalms 115:1Alleluia. 1 I believed, wherefore I have spoken: 1 But I was greatly afflicted. 1

Jeremiah 14:7Our sins have risen up against us: O Lord, do thou for us for thine own sake; for our sins are many before thee; for we have sinned against thee.

Lamentations 2:8And he has turned to destroy 1 The wall of the daughter of Zion: 1 He has stretched out the measuring line, 1 He has not turned back his hand from afflicting her: 1 Therefore the bulwark mourned, 1 And the wall was weakened with it. 1

Ezekiel 20:14But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned before the Gentiles, before whose eyes I brought them out.

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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