Ezekiel 20:23

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

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  • Lev 26:33 : 33 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you. Your land will be desolate and your cities will lie in ruins.
  • Ezek 20:15 : 15 Also, 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—
  • Rev 10:5-6 : 5 Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and the land raised his hand to heaven. 6 He swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it, that there would be no more delay.
  • Deut 28:64-68 : 64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. 65 Among those nations, you will find no peace, and no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul. 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be filled with fear night and day, and you will not be sure of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights your eyes will see. 68 The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, in the way I said you would never see again. There, you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.
  • Deut 32:26-27 : 26 I said I would scatter them and erase their memory from mankind, 27 but I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say, 'Our own hand has triumphed; it was not the LORD who did all this.'
  • Deut 32:40 : 40 For I lift My hand to the heavens and declare: As surely as I live forever,
  • Ps 106:27 : 27 to make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
  • Jer 15:4 : 4 I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 36:19-21
    3 verses
    83%

    19I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the lands. I judged them according to their ways and their deeds.

    20And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned my holy name, for it was said about them, 'These are the LORD's people, yet they had to leave his land.'

    21But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they had gone.

  • Ezek 20:13-18
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    82%

    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.

    18I 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.

  • Ezek 20:21-22
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    82%

    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.

  • Ezek 22:14-15
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    80%

    14Will your heart stand firm? Will your hands be strong when I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.

    15I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you throughout the lands, and I will cleanse you from your impurity.

  • Lev 26:33
    79%

    33I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you. Your land will be desolate and your cities will lie in ruins.

  • Ezek 30:23
    78%

    23I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.

  • Ezek 12:14-15
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    14I will scatter all who are around him—his helpers and all his troops—to every wind, and I will draw my sword after them.

    15Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.

  • Ps 106:26-27
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    26Therefore, He raised His hand against them to make them fall in the wilderness,

    27to make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

  • Jer 9:16
    77%

    16This is what the Lord of Hosts says: 'Consider and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilled wailing women to arrive.'

  • Ezek 11:16-17
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    76%

    16Therefore say: This is what the Lord God says: Although I have sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary for them for a little while in the lands to which they have gone.

    17Therefore say: This is what the Lord God says: I will gather you from the nations, collect you from the lands where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

  • Jer 13:24
    76%

    24Therefore, I will scatter them like chaff driven by the wind of the desert.

  • Zech 7:14
    76%

    14'I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. The land was left so desolate behind them that no one could come or go. This is how they made the pleasant land a wasteland.'

  • Ezek 20:34
    76%

    34I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you have been scattered, with a mighty hand, an outstretched arm, and with outpoured wrath.

  • Deut 32:26
    76%

    26I said I would scatter them and erase their memory from mankind,

  • Neh 1:8
    75%

    8Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,

  • Ezek 20:6
    75%

    6On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands.

  • Ezek 20:8-10
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    75%

    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.

    9But I acted for the sake of my name, to keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they lived and where I had made myself known to them by bringing them out of Egypt.

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

  • Ezek 20:24
    75%

    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.

  • Ezek 30:26
    74%

    26I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

  • Deut 4:27
    74%

    27The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you.

  • Ezek 6:14
    73%

    14I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land a desolate wasteland, from the wilderness to Diblah—wherever they live. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 29:12
    73%

    12I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolate lands, and her cities will be among ruined cities—a desolation for forty years. I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the lands.

  • Lev 20:23
    72%

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

  • Ezek 39:24
    72%

    24I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and I hid my face from them.

  • Hos 9:17
    72%

    17My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; they will become wanderers among the nations.

  • Jer 18:17
    72%

    17Like an east wind, I will scatter them before their enemies. I will show them My back and not My face on the day of their calamity.

  • Deut 28:64
    72%

    64Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    72%

    20then I will uproot you from My land that I have given you, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

  • Jer 24:9
    72%

    9I will make them a horror and an object of calamity among all the kingdoms of the earth—a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I drive them.

  • Ezek 39:27
    71%

    27When I bring them back from the nations and gather them from the lands of their enemies, I will show my holiness through them in the sight of many nations.

  • Ezek 20:42
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    42Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to your ancestors.

  • 2 Kgs 21:14
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    14I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and give them into the hands of their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil for all their enemies,

  • Jer 31:10
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    10Hear the word of the LORD, you nations; declare it in the distant coastlands and say: He who scattered Israel will gather them and watch over them like a shepherd cares for his flock.

  • Ezek 25:7
    71%

    7therefore, I will stretch out my hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples, destroy you from the lands, and annihilate you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

  • Zech 10:9
    71%

    9Though I scatter them among the nations, they will remember Me even in distant lands. They will live with their children and return.

  • Lev 26:44
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    44Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.