Ezekiel 20:25

Ezekiel chapter 20 · verse 25 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.24because they had not executed mine ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

v.25This passage

v.26and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 4:27

    And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah shall lead you away.

  • Ezekiel 20:39

    As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Go ye, serve every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me; but my holy name shall ye no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.

  • Romans 1:21

    because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

  • 2 Thessalonians 2:9

    even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

  • Deuteronomy 28:36

    Jehovah will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

  • Ezekiel 14:9

    And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.