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 carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.

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

Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor; for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God has destroyed them from among you.

That the generation to come might know them, even the sons which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their sons

The statutes

The LORD has been sore displeased with your fathers.

Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do ye.

knowing that ye have been ransomed from your vain conversation (which you received from your fathers), not with corruptible things like silver and gold,

Defile

then said I unto them, Cast away each one of you all worship of god fabricated by carnal appearance and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

And I brought you into a plentiful country to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.

And it came to pass through her judging her whoredom to be a light thing that the land became defiled and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.