Ezekiel 20:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

I lifted up my hand to them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

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  • Lev 26:33 : 33 And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
  • Ezek 20:15 : 15 Yet also I lifted up my hand to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
  • Rev 10:5-6 : 5 And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his hand to heaven. 6 And swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, and the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there should be no more delay.
  • Deut 28:64-68 : 64 And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone. 65 And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: 66 And your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear day and night, and shall have no assurance of your life: 67 In the morning you shall say, Would God it were evening! and at evening you shall say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of your heart with which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. 68 And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spoke unto you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
  • Deut 32:26-27 : 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misbehave themselves, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.
  • Deut 32:40 : 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live forever.
  • Ps 106:27 : 27 To overthrow their descendants also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
  • Jer 15:4 : 4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

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  • Ezek 36:19-21
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    19And I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

    20And when they entered among the nations, wherever they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone out of his land.

    21But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, wherever they went.

  • Ezek 20:13-18
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    82%

    13But 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.

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

    15Yet also I lifted up my hand to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

    16Because they despised my judgments, and did not walk in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

    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:

  • Ezek 20:21-22
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    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.

  • Ezek 22:14-15
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    14Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.

    15And I will scatter you among the heathen, and disperse you in the countries, and will purge your filthiness out of you.

  • Lev 26:33
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    33And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

  • Ezek 30:23
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    23I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.

  • Ezek 12:14-15
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    14And I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.

    15And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.

  • Ps 106:26-27
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    26Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness.

    27To overthrow their descendants also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

  • Jer 9:16
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    16I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

  • Ezek 11:16-17
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    16Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the nations, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

    17Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

  • Jer 13:24
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    24Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.

  • Zech 7:14
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    14But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.

  • Ezek 20:34
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    34And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.

  • Deut 32:26
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    26I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

  • Neh 1:8
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    8Remember, I beg You, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, If you transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:

  • Ezek 20:6
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    6In the day that I lifted up my hand to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had spied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:

  • Ezek 20:8-10
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    8But 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.

    9But I acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

    10Therefore I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

  • Ezek 20:24
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    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.

  • Ezek 30:26
    74%

    26I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they will know that I am the LORD.

  • Deut 4:27
    74%

    27And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you.

  • Ezek 6:14
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    14So I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 29:12
    73%

    12And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

  • Lev 20:23
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    23And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Ezek 39:24
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    24According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have done to them, and hid my face from them.

  • Hos 9:17
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    17My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

  • Jer 18:17
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    17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

  • Deut 28:64
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    64And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
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    20Then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for My name, I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.

  • Jer 24:9
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    9And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their harm, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

  • Ezek 39:27
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    27When I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.

  • Ezek 20:42
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    42And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 21:14
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    14And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

  • Jer 31:10
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    10Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the distant isles, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.

  • Ezek 25:7
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    7Behold, therefore I will stretch out my hand upon you, and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off from the people, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries: I will destroy you; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

  • Zech 10:9
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    9And I will sow them among the people, and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children and turn again.

  • Lev 26:44
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    44And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.