Ezekiel 20:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

Additional Resources

Other Translations

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 6:9 : 9 And those of you who escape shall remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I am grieved by their adulterous heart, which has departed from me, and by their eyes, which go lusting after their idols; and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
  • Ezek 20:16 : 16 Because they despised my judgments, and did not walk in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
  • Ezek 20:13 : 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.
  • Amos 2:4 : 4 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept His commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers walked:
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, should be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has divided to all nations under the whole heaven.
  • Job 31:26-27 : 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 27 And my heart was secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:
  • Ezek 18:6 : 6 And has not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor defiled his neighbor's wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman,
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
  • Ezek 18:15 : 15 Who has not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ezek 20:16-18
    3 verses
    92%

    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 20:25-27
    3 verses
    82%

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

    26And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, so that they might know that I am the LORD.

    27Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

  • Ezek 20:21-23
    3 verses
    81%

    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;

  • Ezek 20:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:15-16
    2 verses
    78%

    15They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; they followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves, and went after the nations that were around them, although the LORD had commanded them not to do like them.

    16They left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves cast images, even two calves, made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

  • 1 Kgs 11:33
    77%

    33Because they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do what is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

  • Jer 16:11
    76%

    11Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.

  • Ezek 23:37-39
    3 verses
    76%

    37That they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire, to devour them.

    38Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

    39For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

  • Jer 1:16
    76%

    16And I will utter My judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken Me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

  • Jer 9:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it;

    14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

  • Ezek 22:8
    76%

    8You have despised My holy things, and have profaned My sabbaths.

  • Ezek 5:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6And she has changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries around her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

    7Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have multiplied more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, nor done according to the judgments of the nations around you;

  • Ezek 20:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7Then I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, 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: 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.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    76%

    18And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols; and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    76%

    12For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • Jer 44:10
    75%

    10They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

  • Judg 2:17
    75%

    17Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves to them: they quickly turned out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so.

  • Jer 44:3
    75%

    3Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they did not know, neither you nor your fathers.

  • Lev 26:43
    75%

    43The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

  • Jer 11:10
    75%

    10They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 17:19
    74%

    19Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
    74%

    6For our fathers have trespassed, and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him, and turned away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs.

  • Ezek 44:12
    74%

    12Because they ministered to them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore I have lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.

  • 2 Kgs 21:15
    74%

    15Because they have done what is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.

  • 2 Chr 7:22
    74%

    22And they will answer, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity upon them.

  • Lev 20:23
    74%

    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 23:30
    74%

    30I will do these things to you, because you have gone a whoring after the heathen, and because you are polluted with their idols.

  • Ezek 22:26
    74%

    26Her priests have violated My law, and have profaned My holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and unholy, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

  • Heb 8:9
    73%

    9Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 9:9
    73%

    9And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold of other gods, and have worshiped them, and served them: therefore, the LORD has brought upon them all this evil.

  • Ezek 36:18
    73%

    18Therefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols with which they had polluted it:

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    73%

    8And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

  • 2 Kgs 17:34
    73%

    34To this day they continue practicing their former habits: they do not fear the LORD, nor do they follow his statutes, or his ordinances, or the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

  • Ezek 20:30
    73%

    30Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; Are you polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit you harlotry after their abominations?

  • 1 Chr 5:25
    72%

    25But they transgressed against the God of their fathers and went after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

  • Jer 32:34
    72%

    34But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.

  • Jer 44:5
    72%

    5But they did not listen, nor incline their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.