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Ezekiel 20:24

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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
יַ֜עַןYa.'anbecauseH3282 →
מִשְׁפָּטַ֤יmish.pa.Taijudgments myH4941 →
לֹֽא־lo'-notH3808 →
עָשׂוּ֙'a.Suthey had doneH6213 →
וְחֻקּוֹתַ֣יve.chu.ko.Taiand statutes myH2708 →
מָאָ֔סוּma.'A.suthey had rejectedH3988 →
וְאֶת־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853 →
שַׁבְּתוֹתַ֖יsha.be.to.Taisabbaths myH7676 →
חִלֵּ֑לוּchi.Le.luthey had profanedH2490 →
וְאַחֲרֵי֙ve.'a.cha.Reiand afterH310 →
גִּלּוּלֵ֣יgi.lu.Lei[the] idols ofH1544 →
אֲבוֹתָ֔ם'a.vo.Tamparents theirH1 →
הָי֖וּha.Yuthey had beenH1961 →
עֵינֵיהֶֽם׃'ei.nei.Hemeyes theirH5869 →

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Proverbs 13:13He who despises instruction will pay the penalty, but the one who respects a command will be rewarded.Ezekiel 20:16because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.Ezekiel 6:9Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.Ezekiel 22:8You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.Ezekiel 23:38They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.Ezekiel 20:13Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.Amos 2:4This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.Amos 5:25Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?Ezekiel 18:19Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.Isaiah 24:5The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.Judges 2:21I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.Job 31:26–27if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,Ezekiel 18:12He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.Deuteronomy 4:19When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.Ezekiel 18:6He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.Ezekiel 18:15He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.Ezekiel 11:12Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”Exodus 31:14Keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it must surely be put to death. Whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from among his people.

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The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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