Ezekiel 20:25 “I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by…”

Ezekiel 20:25

I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

World English Bible

Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they couldn’t live.

American Standard Version

Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live;

Geneva Bible 1599

Wherefore I gaue them also statutes that were not good, and iudgements, wherein they should not liue.

Darby Translation

And I also gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances whereby they should not live;

Young's Literal Translation

And I also, I have given to them statutes not good, And judgments by which they do not live.

Bible in Basic English

And further, I gave them rules which were not good and orders in which there was no life for them;

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Cross references

“I gave”

Psalm 81:12 Ezekiel 20:39 Isaiah 66:4 Ezekiel 20:26 Ezekiel 14:9–11 Deuteronomy 28:36

Psalm 81:12 · BSB

So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

Ezekiel 20:39 · BSB

And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and id…

Isaiah 66:4 · BSB

So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”

Ezekiel 20:26 · BSB

And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 14:9–11 · BSB

But if the prophet is enticed to speak a message, then it was I the LORD who enticed him, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.

Deuteronomy 28:36 · BSB

The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

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

In context

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.

26And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.

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