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Ezekiel 20:25 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 20 · verse 25
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;Ezekiel 20:25 · King James Version
Ezekiel 20:25 in context
23I lifted up mine hand unto 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.
25Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
26And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
27Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- judgmentsmishpâṭproperly, a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree divine…H4941 →
- statuteschôqan enactmentH2706 →
- gavenâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
- goodṭôwbgood in the widest senseH2896 →
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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