Ezekiel 20:16
What does Ezekiel 20:16 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 20:16 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Because 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Because 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.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890because they rejected mine ordinances and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Context
v.15Moreover also I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
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v.17Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 20:8
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me; they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 15:39
and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that ye follow not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot;
- Acts 7:39
to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,
- Numbers 25:2
for they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
- Ezekiel 14:3
Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
- Ezekiel 23:8
Neither hath she left her whoredoms since the days of Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her.
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