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 unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
  • Ezek 20:15 : 15 I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to 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 I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven 6 and swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, and the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it,“There will be no more delay!
  • Deut 28:64-68 : 64 The LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone. 65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair. 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next. 67 In the morning you will say,‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say,‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see. 68 Then the LORD will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that 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 The Weakness of Other Gods“I said,‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed. 27 But I fear the reaction of their enemies, for their adversaries would misunderstand and say,“Our power is great, and the LORD has not done all this!”’
  • Deut 32:40 : 40 For I raise up my hand to heaven, and say,‘As surely as I live forever,
  • Ps 106:27 : 27 make their descendants die among the nations, and scatter them among foreign lands.
  • Jer 15:4 : 4 I will make all the people in all the kingdoms of the world horrified at what has happened to them because of what Hezekiah’s son Manasseh, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 36:19-21
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    83%

    19I scattered them among the nations; they were dispersed throughout foreign countries. In accordance with their behavior and their deeds I judged them.

    20But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them,‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they have departed from his land.’

    21I was concerned for my holy reputation which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where 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 follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations(the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them.

    14I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

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

    16I did this because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols.

    17Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

    18“‘But I said to their children in the wilderness,“Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

  • Ezek 20:21-22
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    21“‘But the children rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out(the one who obeys them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.

    22But I refrained from doing so, and acted instead for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

  • Ezek 22:14-15
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    80%

    14Can your heart endure, or can 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 among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.

  • Lev 26:33
    79%

    33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

  • Ezek 30:23
    78%

    23I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among foreign countries.

  • Ezek 12:14-15
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    14All his retinue– his attendants and his troops– I will scatter to every wind; I will unleash a sword behind them.

    15“Then they will know that I am the LORD when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among foreign countries.

  • Ps 106:26-27
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    26So he made a solemn vow that he would make them die in the wilderness,

    27make their descendants die among the nations, and scatter them among foreign lands.

  • Jer 9:16
    77%

    16I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords until I have destroyed them.’”

  • Ezek 11:16-17
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    76%

    16“Therefore say:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’

    17“Therefore say:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I regather you from the peoples and assemble you from the lands where you have been dispersed, I will give you back the country of Israel.’

  • Jer 13:24
    76%

    24“The LORD says,‘That is why I will scatter your people like chaff that is blown away by a desert wind.

  • Zech 7:14
    76%

    14‘Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.’ Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste.”

  • Ezek 20:34
    76%

    34I will bring you out from the nations, and will gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm and with an outpouring of rage!

  • Deut 32:26
    76%

    26The Weakness of Other Gods“I said,‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.

  • Neh 1:8
    75%

    8Please recall the word you commanded your servant Moses:‘If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the nations.

  • Ezek 20:6
    75%

    6On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

  • Ezek 20:8-10
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    75%

    8But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

    9I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived, before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

    10“‘So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them to the wilderness.

  • Ezek 20:24
    75%

    24I did this because they did not observe my regulations, they rejected my statutes, they desecrated 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 among foreign countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

  • Deut 4:27
    74%

    27Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the LORD will drive you.

  • Ezek 6:14
    73%

    14I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 29:12
    73%

    12I will turn the land of Egypt into a desolation in the midst of desolate lands; for forty years her cities will lie desolate in the midst of ruined cities. I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries.

  • Lev 20:23
    72%

    23You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.

  • Ezek 39:24
    72%

    24According to their uncleanness and rebellion I have dealt with them, and I hid my face from them.

  • Hos 9:17
    72%

    17My God will reject them, for they have not obeyed him; so they will be fugitives among the nations.

  • Jer 18:17
    72%

    17I will scatter them before their enemies like dust blowing in front of a burning east wind. I will turn my back on them and not look favorably on them when disaster strikes them.”

  • Deut 28:64
    72%

    64The LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    72%

    20then I will remove you from my land I have given you, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and I will make you an object of mockery and ridicule among all the nations.

  • Jer 24:9
    72%

    9I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.

  • Ezek 39:27
    71%

    27When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will magnify myself among them in the sight of many nations.

  • Ezek 20:42
    71%

    42Then you will know that I am the LORD when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore to give to your fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 21:14
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    14I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people and hand them over to their enemies; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies,

  • Jer 31:10
    71%

    10Listen to the LORD’s message, O nations. Proclaim it in the faraway lands along the sea. Say,“The one who scattered Israel will regather them. He will watch over his people like a shepherd watches over his flock.”

  • Ezek 25:7
    71%

    7take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Zech 10:9
    71%

    9Though I scatter them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places– they and their children will survive and return.

  • Lev 26:44
    71%

    44In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.