Ezekiel 20:18

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Summary

But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

I said

The statutes

Defile

Ezekiel 20:7

Jeremiah 2:7

Jeremiah 3:9

Bible References

I said

and your carcases shall lie in this wilderness.

And the LORD was angry with Israel, and made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD were consumed.

Your eyes have seen what the LORD did unto Baal-Peor: for all the men that followed Baal-Peor, the LORD your God hath destroyed from among you.

that their posterity might know it, and the children which were yet unborn, to the intent that when they came up, they might show their children the same;

The statutes

"The LORD hath been sore displeased at your forefathers.

Woe be to you that build the sepulchers of the prophets: for your fathers killed them:

"Ye stiffnecked and of uncircumcised hearts and ears: ye have always resisted the holy ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Forasmuch as ye know how that ye were not redeemed with corruptible gold and silver from your vain conversation, which ye received by the traditions of the fathers,

Defile

Then said I unto them, 'Cast away every man the abominations that he hath before him, and defile not yourselves with the Idols of Egypt, for I am the LORD your God.'

And when I had brought you into a pleasant well builded land, that ye might enjoy the fruits and all the commodities of the same: ye went forth and defiled my land, and brought mine heritage to abomination.

Yea, and the noise of her whoredom hath defiled the whole land. For she hath committed her adultery with stones and stocks.