Ezekiel 20:16

American Standard Version

because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

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Ezekiel 20:16 in other translations

because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

Ezekiel 20:16 · World English Bible

Ezekiel 20:16 in context

  1. 14But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
  2. 15Moreover also I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
  3. 16because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
  4. 17Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
  5. 18And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.