Ezekiel 20:23 “However, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that…”

Ezekiel 20:23

However, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

World English Bible

Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,

American Standard Version

Moreover I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

Geneva Bible 1599

Yet I lift vp mine hande vnto them in the wildernes, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countreys,

Darby Translation

I lifted up my hand also unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

Young's Literal Translation

I also, I have lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, To scatter them among nations, And to spread them through lands.

Bible in Basic English

Further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land that I would send them wandering among the nations, driving them out among the countries;

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Cross references

“lifted”

Ezekiel 20:15 Deuteronomy 32:40 Revelation 10:5 Revelation 10:6

Ezekiel 20:15 · BSB

Moreover, 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—

Deuteronomy 32:40 · BSB

For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,

Revelation 10:5 · BSB

Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven.

Revelation 10:6 · BSB

And he swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: “There will be no more delay!

“that I”

Leviticus 26:33 Deuteronomy 28:64–68 Psalm 106:27 Jeremiah 15:4 Deuteronomy 32:26 Deuteronomy 32:27

Leviticus 26:33 · BSB

But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

Deuteronomy 28:64–68 · BSB

Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Psalm 106:27 · BSB

to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

Jeremiah 15:4 · BSB

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.

Deuteronomy 32:26 · BSB

I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

Deuteronomy 32:27 · BSB

if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”

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

In context

22But I withheld My hand and 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.

24For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.

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