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Ezekiel 20:16 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 20 · verse 16
Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.Ezekiel 20:16 · King James Version
Ezekiel 20:16 in context
14But I wrought 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 unto 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 walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
17Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
18But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- judgmentsmishpâṭproperly, a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree divine…H4941 →
- despisedmâʼaçto spurnH3988 →
- statuteschuqqâh{an enactmentH2708 →
- pollutedchâlalproperly, to boreH2490 →
- sabbathsshabbâthintermission, i.e the SabbathH7676 →
- walkedhâlakto walkH1980 →
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The history of the struggle between the sins of Israel, by which they endeavoured to ruin themselves, and the mercies of God, by which he endeavoured to save them and make them happy, is here continued: and the instances of that struggle in these verses have reference to what passed between God and them in the…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-26