Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ezekiel 20:23 in context
Ezekiel 20:20–26
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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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“‘“But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
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Nevertheless I withdrew my hand and 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 I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,
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because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
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Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they couldn’t live.
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I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.”’
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