Ezekiel 20:17

Nevertheless 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.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

In Context

16Because 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.

18But I said unto their children in the desert, In the statutes of your fathers, let it not be that ye walk, And their regulations, let it not be that ye observe,— And with their manufactured gods, let it not be that ye defile yourselves.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:10Lo! this day, have thine own eyes seen, how Yahweh had delivered thee up, to-day, into my hand in the cave, and, when one bade me slay thee, I looked with compassion upon thee,—and I said—I will not thrust forth my hand against my lord, for, the Anointed of Yahweh, is he!

Psalms 78:37But, their heart, was not fixed with him, Nor were they trusty in his covenant:

Jeremiah 4:27For, thus, saith Yahweh, A desolation, shall all the land become—Nevertheless a full end, will I not make.

Ezekiel 7:2Thou therefore O son of man. Thus saith My Lord Yahweh, To the so of Israel, there is an end,- The end hath come upon the four skirts of the land.

Ezekiel 9:10Therefore as for even me, Mine eye shall not shield. Neither will I pity,— Their way upon their own head, have I rendered.

Nahum 1:8But, with an overflow rolling on, a full end, will he make of them who rise up against him,—and, his foes, will he pursue into darkness.

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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