Ezekiel 20:16 “because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My stat…”

Ezekiel 20:16

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

World English Bible

because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

American Standard Version

because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

Geneva Bible 1599

Because they cast away my iudgments, and walked not in my statutes, but haue polluted my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idoles.

Darby Translation

because they rejected mine ordinances and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

Young's Literal Translation

Because against My judgments they did kick, And in My statutes they have not walked, And My sabbaths they have polluted, For after their idols their heart is going.

Bible in Basic English

Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images.

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Cross references

“they”

Ezekiel 20:13 Ezekiel 20:14

Ezekiel 20:13 · BSB

Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths.…

Ezekiel 20:14 · BSB

But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

“for their”

Numbers 15:39 Ezekiel 20:8 Ezekiel 23:8 Exodus 32:1–8 Numbers 25:2 Acts 7:39–43

Numbers 15:39 · BSB

These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.

Ezekiel 20:8 · BSB

But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger a…

Ezekiel 23:8 · BSB

She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.

Exodus 32:1–8 · BSB

Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egyp…

Numbers 25:2 · BSB

who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.

Acts 7:39–43 · BSB

But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

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

In context

15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—

17Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.

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