Ezekiel 20:25

Moreover I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances by which they should not live.

Noyes Bible

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 did not observe mine ordinances, but despised my statutes, and polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after the idols of their fathers.

26And I polluted them in their offerings, in that they caused every first-born child to pass through the fire, that I might destroy them, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.

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Cross References

Psalms 81:12So I gave them up to the obstinacy of their hearts, And they walked according to their own devices.

Ezekiel 14:9And when the prophet is deceived when he speaketh anything, I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet; and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

Ezekiel 20:39As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Go ye, serve ye every one his idols in future also, if ye will not obey me! But pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts and your idols!

2 Thessalonians 2:9[[he,]] whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power, and signs, and wonders of falsehood,

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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