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

Bible References

I said

But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

And LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of LORD was consumed.

Your eyes have seen what LORD did because of Baal-peor. For all the men who followed Baal-peor, LORD thy God has destroyed them from the midst of thee.

that the generation to come might know, even the sons who should be born, who should arise and tell to their sons,

The statutes

LORD was greatly displeased with your fathers.

Woe to you! Because ye build the sepulchers of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also.

Knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain behavior inherited from fathers, not with perishable silver or gold,

Defile

And I said to them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am LORD your God.

And I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it. But when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.