But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ezekiel 20:14 in context
Ezekiel 20:11–17
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I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.
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Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
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“‘“But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
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But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
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Moreover also I swore 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,
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because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
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Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.
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