Ezekiel 20:18

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I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not follow the statutes of your fathers, do not observe their ordinances, and do not defile yourselves with their idols.

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  • Deut 4:3-6 : 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal Peor; for every man who followed Baal Peor, the LORD your God destroyed him from among you. 4 But all of you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive today. 5 See, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the LORD my God commanded me, so that you may act according to them in the land you are entering to possess. 6 You must keep and do them, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the nations, who will hear about all these statutes and say, 'Indeed, this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
  • Ezek 20:7 : 7 And I said to them, 'Each of you, get rid of the detestable things your eyes are set on, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life, inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,
  • Num 14:32-33 : 32 As for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness. 33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, bearing the consequences of your unfaithfulness, until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.
  • Num 32:13-15 : 13 The Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness for forty years until the entire generation that had done evil in His sight was gone. 14 "Now you have risen in place of your ancestors, a brood of sinful men, to increase still further the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel. 15 If you turn away from following Him, He will abandon them again in the wilderness, and you will bring destruction on all these people."
  • Zech 1:2-4 : 2 The Lord was very angry with your ancestors. 3 Therefore, say to them: 'This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Return to me,' declares the Lord of Hosts, 'and I will return to you,' says the Lord of Hosts. 4 Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: 'This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.' But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
  • Luke 11:47-48 : 47 Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, yet it was your ancestors who killed them. 48 So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your ancestors; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did.
  • Ps 78:6-8 : 6 so that the next generation would know them—children yet to be born—and in turn they would rise and tell their children, 7 so they would put their trust in God and not forget His deeds but keep His commandments. 8 They would not be like their ancestors—a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal, whose spirits were not faithful to God.
  • Jer 2:7 : 7 I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its bounty. But you came and defiled my land. You made my inheritance detestable.
  • Jer 3:9 : 9 Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 20:19-27
    9 verses
    84%

    19'I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and obey them.

    20Sanctify my Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between me and you so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.'

    21But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes, and they did not keep my ordinances to obey them, though by them a person will live. They profaned my Sabbaths, so I said I would pour out my wrath on them and unleash my anger against them in the wilderness.

    22But I withdrew my hand and acted for the sake of my name, to keep it from being profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

    23I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands,

    24because they did not carry out my ordinances but rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers' idols.

    25So I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.

    26I defiled them through their own gifts, by making them cause all their firstborn to pass through the fire, in order to devastate them and make them know that I am the LORD.

    27Therefore, speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Yet in this, your fathers blasphemed me by acting treacherously against me.'

  • Ezek 20:13-17
    5 verses
    80%

    13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my statutes and rejected my ordinances—though by them a person will live if they do them—and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness to destroy them.

    14But I acted for the sake of my name, to keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

    15Also, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands—

    16because they rejected my ordinances, did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths, for their hearts followed after their idols.

    17Yet my eye spared them from destruction, and I did not destroy them completely in the wilderness.

  • Ezek 20:7-8
    2 verses
    79%

    7And I said to them, 'Each of you, get rid of the detestable things your eyes are set on, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'

    8But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; none of them got rid of the detestable things their eyes were set on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and unleash my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

  • Lev 20:23
    78%

    23Do not follow the customs of the nations that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

  • Lev 18:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    2Speak to the Israelites and tell them: 'I am the LORD your God.'

    3You must not behave like the people of Egypt, where you used to live, or like the people of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their practices.

    4You must obey my laws and carefully keep my decrees. Live by them. I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 19:4
    76%

    4Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 20:18
    76%

    18This is so they do not teach you to follow all the detestable practices they have done for their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.

  • Ezek 20:30-32
    3 verses
    76%

    30Therefore, say to the house of Israel: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did and lust after their detestable things?'

    31When you offer your gifts and make your children pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Shall I let you inquire of me, house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will not let you inquire of me.

    32What you have in mind will never happen. You say, 'We will be like the nations, like the peoples of the world, who serve wood and stone.'

  • Lev 18:30
    75%

    30So keep my charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were done before you, so you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.

  • Jer 16:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11Then you are to answer them: 'It is because your ancestors abandoned Me,' declares the LORD, 'and followed other gods, served them, and worshiped them. But they abandoned Me and did not keep My law.

    12And you have behaved even more wickedly than your ancestors, each one following the stubbornness of their own evil heart instead of listening to Me.

  • 2 Kgs 17:15
    74%

    15They despised His statutes, His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His warnings He gave them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They imitated the nations around them, though the Lord had commanded them not to do so.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    73%

    8They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced.

  • Lev 20:8
    73%

    8Keep my statutes and do them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

  • Ezek 11:12
    73%

    12Then you will know that I am the Lord, for you have not followed My statutes or kept My judgments, but instead you have conformed to the judgments of the nations around you.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    73%

    12They served idols, about which the Lord had said to them, 'You shall not do this thing.'

  • 2 Chr 30:7
    73%

    7Do not be like your ancestors and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their ancestors, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.

  • Jer 2:5
    73%

    5This is what the LORD says: ‘What fault did your ancestors find in me that they strayed so far from me? They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

  • Ezek 20:39
    73%

    39As for you, house of Israel, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you! But afterward, you will surely listen to me and no longer profane my holy name with your gifts and idols.

  • Num 14:33
    72%

    33Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, bearing the consequences of your unfaithfulness, until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.

  • Ezek 20:4
    72%

    4Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Let them know about the detestable practices of their ancestors.

  • Jer 9:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and went after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

    14Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'See, I will feed this people with bitter food and give them poisoned water to drink.'

  • Ezek 11:20
    72%

    20Then they will follow My statutes, keep My judgments, and carry them out. They will be My people, and I will be their God.

  • Jer 7:22
    72%

    22For when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to them or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.

  • 2 Kgs 17:19
    72%

    19But even Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God. They followed the practices of Israel as the Israelites had done.

  • Lev 18:24
    72%

    24Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

  • Ezek 20:10
    72%

    10So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.

  • Judg 2:17
    72%

    17Yet they did not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves by worshiping other gods. They turned quickly from the way their ancestors had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments. They did not do as their ancestors had done.

  • Lev 26:1
    72%

    1Do not make idols for yourselves, or set up a carved image or a sacred pillar for yourselves, and do not place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.

  • 1 Kgs 9:6
    71%

    6'But if you or your descendants turn away from Me and do not keep My commands and statutes that I have given you, and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them,

  • Lev 19:30
    71%

    30Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

  • Ps 78:8
    71%

    8They would not be like their ancestors—a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal, whose spirits were not faithful to God.