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Ezekiel 20:25

I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.

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ASV

Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live;

KJV

Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

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11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְגַם־ve.gam-and alsoH1571 →
אֲנִי֙'a.NiIH589 →
נָתַ֣תִּיna.Ta.tiI gaveH5414 →
לָהֶ֔םla.Hemto <the> them
חֻקִּ֖יםchu.KimstatutesH2706 →
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808 →
טוֹבִ֑יםto.VimgoodH2896 →
וּמִ֨שְׁפָּטִ֔יםu.Mish.pa.Timand judgmentsH4941 →
לֹ֥אlo'[which] notH3808 →
יִֽחְי֖וּyich.Yuthey will liveH2421 →
בָּהֶֽם׃ba.Hemby them

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Psalms 81:12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.Acts 7:42But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?Isaiah 66:4So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”Ezekiel 20:39And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.Ezekiel 14:9But if the prophet is enticed to speak a message, then it was I the LORD who enticed him, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.2 Thessalonians 2:9–11The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,Ezekiel 14:9–11But if the prophet is enticed to speak a message, then it was I the LORD who enticed him, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.Deuteronomy 4:27–28Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.Deuteronomy 28:36The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.Ezekiel 20:26And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.2 Samuel 16:11Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.2 Samuel 24:1Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”Exodus 21:1“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:Romans 1:21–28For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

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