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 your bodies will drop dead in this desert.

Jehovah's anger blazed against the Israelites. Therefore he made them wander in the desert for forty years until the whole generation of those who had done evil in Jehovah's presence was gone.

You saw how he killed everyone who worshiped the god Baal at Peor.

That the generation to come might know, the children to be born, that they may arise and tell to their children,

The statutes

Jehovah was very angry with your fathers.

Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

You obstinate men who are uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did.

Know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers. [The redemption] was not with corruptible things like silver or gold,

Defile

I told them to throw away the disgusting idols they loved and not to make themselves unclean with the false gods of Egypt. I am Jehovah their God.

I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its produce. You came and made my land unclean. You made my heritage disgusting.

Because she was not concerned about her prostitution. She polluted the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.