Ezekiel 11:12 “Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed M…”

Ezekiel 11:12

Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.

World English Bible

You will know that I am the LORD, for you have not walked in my statutes. You have not executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”’”

American Standard Version

and ye shall know that I am Jehovah: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither have ye executed mine ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.

Geneva Bible 1599

And ye shall knowe that I am the Lord: for ye haue not walked in my statutes, neither executed my iudgements, but haue done after the maners of the heathen, that are round about you.

Darby Translation

and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah, in whose statutes ye have not walked, neither have done mine ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.

Young's Literal Translation

And ye have known that I [am] Jehovah, For in My statutes ye have not walked, And My Judgments ye have not done, And according to the judgments of the nations Who are round about you — ye have done!'

Bible in Basic English

And you will be certain that I am the Lord: for you have not been guided by my rules or given effect to my orders, but you have been living by the orders of the nations round about you.

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Cross references

“for we have not walked”

Ezekiel 11:21 Ezekiel 20:16 Ezekiel 20:21 Ezekiel 20:24 Leviticus 26:40 1 Kings 11:33

Ezekiel 11:21 · BSB

But as for those whose hearts pursue detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”

Ezekiel 20:16 · BSB

because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.

Ezekiel 20:21 · BSB

But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My…

Ezekiel 20:24 · BSB

For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.

Leviticus 26:40 · BSB

But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

1 Kings 11:33 · BSB

For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor k…

“but”

Ezekiel 8:10 Ezekiel 8:14 Ezekiel 8:16 Psalm 106:35–39 Ezekiel 16:44–47 Leviticus 18:3

Ezekiel 8:10 · BSB

So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 8:14 · BSB

Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.

Ezekiel 8:16 · BSB

So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD…

Psalm 106:35–39 · BSB

but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

Ezekiel 16:44–47 · BSB

Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

Leviticus 18:3 · BSB

You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.

Also

Ezekiel 18:9

Ezekiel 18:9 · BSB

He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11The city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be the meat within it. I will judge you even to the borders of Israel.

13Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Oh, Lord GOD, will You bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?”

Read Ezekiel 11