Ezekiel 20:16

Ezekiel chapter 20 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

because 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 · 1611

Because 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 · 1901

because 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;

v.16This passage

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.