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 dead bodies will fall in this wilderness,

So the Lord's anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the Lord was finished.

You have witnessed what the Lord did at Baal Peor, how he eradicated from your midst everyone who followed Baal Peor.

so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

The statutes

The Lord was very angry with your ancestors.

Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.

"You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed -- not by perishable things like silver or gold,

Defile

I said to them, "Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God."

I brought you into a fertile land so you could enjoy its fruits and its rich bounty. But when you entered my land, you defiled it; you made the land I call my own loathsome to me.

Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone.