Ezekiel 20:16

because they despised my laws, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

In Context

15Yet I lifted up my hand to them in the desert, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, the beauty of all lands;

17Nevertheless mine eye spared them, so that I did not destroy them; neither did I make an end of them in the desert.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 20:8But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken to me; they did not cast away every one the abominations of his eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said that I would pour out my fury upon them, that I would accomplish mine anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:8Neither forsook she her whoredoms brought from Egypt; for they lay with her in her youth, and handled the breasts of her virginity, and poured their fornication upon her.

Amos 5:26But ye bore the tabernacle of your king, And the shrine of your images, The star of your god, which ye made for yourselves.

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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