"But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their jud…" — Ezekiel 20:18

Ezekiel 20:18 · KJV

“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:”

— Ezekiel 20:18

Verse 17

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

Verse 19

I {am} the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

Ezekiel 20 — Context

Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

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

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:

I {am} the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I {am} the LORD your God.

Cross References

Ezekiel 20:7

Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I {am} the LORD your God.

Zechariah 1:2-4

The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. {sore...: Heb. with displeasure}

Psalms 78:6-8

That the generation to come might know {them, even} the children {which} should be born; {who} should arise and declare {them} to their children:

Deuteronomy 4:3-6

Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

1 Peter 1:18

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, {as} silver and gold, from your vain conversation {received} by tradition from your fathers;

Acts 7:51

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers {did}, so {do} ye.

Numbers 32:13-15

And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.

Luke 11:47-48

Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.