Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ezekiel 20:17 in context
Ezekiel 20:14–20
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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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I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
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I am the LORD your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them.
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Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’
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