Ezekiel 11:20

When I do that, you will carefully obey all my laws [DOU]. You will be my people, and I will be your God.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

In Context

19I will put a new way of thinking [IDM] within you. I will cause you to no longer be stubborn [IDM], and I will enable you to obey me completely [IDM].

21But as for those who are devoted to worshiping their vile statues and detestable idols, I will punish them as they deserve for the evil things that they have done.’”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 30:6Yahweh our God will change [MET] your inner beings, with the result that you will love him more than you love anything else and want to do only what he wants you to do. And then you will continue to live in that land.

Psalms 119:4Yahweh, you have given us ◄your principles of behavior/all the things that you have declared that we should do►, and you told us to obey them carefully.

Jeremiah 11:4It is the same agreement that I made with their ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt. What happened to them in Egypt was terrible; it was as though they were living in a hot furnace [MET]. When I brought them out of Egypt, I told them to obey me, and to do everything that I had commanded them to do. I also told them that if they obeyed me, they would be my people and I would be their God.

Jeremiah 24:7I will enable them to desire to know [IDM] that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God, because they will return to me sincerely.’

Jeremiah 31:33This is what I, Yahweh, say: ‘This is the new agreement that I will make with the people of Israel some day: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their inner beings. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Jeremiah 32:39I will cause them to have one way of thinking [IDM] and behaving, in order that they may revere me, for their good and for the good of their descendants.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 11:15-22

Judgments Predicted; Sufferings and Hopes of Pious Captives. ( b. c. 593.) 14 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the Lord : unto us is this land given in possession. 16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God ; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries,… Read the whole commentary →

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