Ezekiel 20:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Num 15:39 : 39 And it shall be for you a fringe, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, in which you used to go astray:
  • Ezek 14:3-4 : 3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces: should I be inquired of at all by them? 4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Every man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him who comes according to the multitude of his idols;
  • Ezek 20:8 : 8 But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me: they did not cast away every man the abominations of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
  • Ezek 20:13-14 : 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they did not walk in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live in them; and they greatly polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. 14 But I acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
  • Ezek 23:8 : 8 She did not leave her harlotries brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their harlotry upon her.
  • Amos 5:25-26 : 25 Did you offer to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? 26 But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
  • Acts 7:39-43 : 39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt, 40 Saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him. 41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. 42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did you offer to me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? 43 Yes, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rephan, images which you made to worship them; and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
  • Num 25:2 : 2 And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
  • Exod 32:1-8 : 1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, "Arise, make us gods to go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him." 2 Aaron said to them, "Break off the golden earrings that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." 3 So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. 4 He received them from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt." 5 When Aaron saw it, he built an altar in front of it, and proclaimed, "Tomorrow is a feast to the LORD." 6 They rose up early the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 7 The LORD said to Moses, "Go down at once; for your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made a molten calf, have worshiped it, have sacrificed to it, and have said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

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    17Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, nor did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

    18But I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

    19I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

    20And hallow my sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.

    21Nevertheless the children rebelled against me: they did not walk in my statutes, nor kept my judgments to do them, which if a man does, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

    22Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

    23I lifted up my hand to 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.

    25Therefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they should not live;

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    14But I acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

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