Ezekiel 20:24

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.

Because they had not executed {H6213} my judgments {H4941}, but had despised {H3988} my statutes {H2708}, and had polluted {H2490} my sabbaths {H7676}, and their eyes {H5869} were after {H310} their fathers {H1}' idols {H1544}.

because they hadn't obeyed my rulings but had rejected my laws and profaned my shabbats, and their eyes had turned toward their fathers' idols.

For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.

because they had not executed mine ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

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Cross-References

  • Ezekiel 20:16 (4 votes)

    Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

  • Ezekiel 6:9 (4 votes)

    And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

  • Ezekiel 20:13 (3 votes)

    But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

  • Amos 2:4 (3 votes)

    Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

  • Deuteronomy 4:19 (2 votes)

    And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, [even] all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

  • Job 31:26 (2 votes)

    If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking [in] brightness;

  • Job 31:27 (2 votes)

    And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: