Ezekiel 20:16

Because my regulations, they had rejected. And as for my statutes, they had not walked therein, My sabbaths also, had they profaned; For after their manufactured gods, their heart had been going.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 even I lifted up my hand to them. in the desert,— That I would not bring them into the land which I had given to them flowing with milk and honey, The beauty, it was. of all lands:

17Nevertheless mine eye threw a shield over them that they should not be destroyed; So I made not of them a full end in the desert.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:1And, when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him—Up, make for us gods, who shall go before us, for, as for this Moses—the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what hath befallen him.

Numbers 25:2who invited the people unto the sacrifices of their gods,—so the people did eat, and did bow themselves down unto their gods.

Ezekiel 20:8But they rebelled against me And were not willing to hearken unto me, Every man the abominations of their eyes, they cast not away, And the manufactured gods of Egypt, forsook they not; Therefore spake I of pouring out mine indignation upon them to bring mine anger to an end against them, in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:8And, her unchaste doings from the time she was in Egypt, had she not forsaken, For with her, had they lain in her youth, Yea they had pressed her virgin bosoms,- and had poured out their unchastity upon her.

Amos 5:26But ye carried the tent of your king-idol, and your Saturn-images,—the star of your gods, 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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