Ezekiel 20:24

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Summary

Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

They had

Ezekiel 20:13

Their eyes

Amos 2:4

General references

Bible References

They had

“But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—the person who does them will live by them. They also completely profaned My Sabbaths. So I considered pouring out My wrath on them in the wilderness to put an end to them.

Their eyes

Then your survivors will remember Me among the nations where they are taken captive, how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from Me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did, their detestable practices of every kind.

He does not eat at the mountain shrines or raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or come near a woman during her menstrual impurity.

When you look to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the array of heaven—do not be led astray to bow down and worship them. The Lord your God has provided them for all people everywhere under heaven.

if I have gazed at the sun when it was shining
or at the moon moving in splendor,

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Judah
for three crimes, even four,
because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord

and have not kept His statutes.
The lies that their ancestors followed
have led them astray.

General references

I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.

You despise My holy things and profane My Sabbaths.

Then I will knock your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand.

“House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to Me during the 40 years in the wilderness?