Ezekiel 20:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.

The Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness 40 years until the whole generation that had done what was evil in the Lord’s sight was gone.

Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.

so that a future generation—
children yet to be born—might know.
They were to rise and tell their children

The statutes

“The Lord was extremely angry with your ancestors.

“Woe to you! You build monuments to the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

Defile

I also said to them: Each of you must throw away the detestable things that are before your eyes and not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

I brought you to a fertile land
to eat its fruit and bounty,
but after you entered, you defiled My land;
you made My inheritance detestable.

Indifferent to her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.