Ezekiel 20:25 · KJV
“Wherefore I gave them also statutes {that were} not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;”
— Ezekiel 20:25
Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through {the fire} all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I {am} the LORD.
Ezekiel 20 — Context
I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
24Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
25Wherefore I gave them also statutes {that were} not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
26And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through {the fire} all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I {am} the LORD.
27Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. {committed...: Heb. trespassed a trespass}
Cross References
Psalms 81:12
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: {and} they walked in their own counsels. {unto...: or, to the hardness of their hearts, or, imagination}
Isaiah 66:4
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose {that} in which I delighted not. {delusions: or, devices}
Ezekiel 20:39
As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter {also}, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
Ezekiel 20:26
And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through {the fire} all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I {am} the LORD.
Deuteronomy 4:27-28
And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
Deuteronomy 28:36
The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
{Even him}, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
Ezekiel 14:9-11
And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
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