Ezekiel 20:18

But 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.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

In Context

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.

19I, Yahweh, am your God, In my statutes, walk ye,— And my regulations, observe ye and do them;

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Cross References

Numbers 32:13So the anger of Yahweh kindled upon Israel, and he made them wander in the desert, forty years,—until all the generation who had done the evil in the eyes of Yahweh, had wasted away!

Psalms 78:6To the end, A later generation, might come to know, Children who should be born, Who should arise, and recount [them] to their children;

Jeremiah 3:9Yea though it had come to pass that through the levity of her unchastity, she had defiled the land,—and committed adultery with Stone and with Tree,

Jeremiah 32:23And they came in and took possession of it But hearkened not unto thy voice Nor in thy law, did they walk, Nought of what thou hadst commanded them to do, did they do,—And so thou hast caused to befall them all this calamity.

Ezekiel 20:7And I said unto them. Every one the abomination of his eyes, cast ye away, And with the manufactured gods of Egypt, let it not be that ye defile yourselves: I, Yahweh, am your God.

Luke 11:47Alas for you! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers slew them!

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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