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Bishop's Bible

Ezekiel 20:25

Wherfore I gaue them also statutes that were not good, and iudgementes wherin they shoulde not lyue.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Molech, Moloch;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lead;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Molech;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Birthright;   Moloch (Molech);  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
So I gave them laws that were not good. I gave them commands that would not bring life.
New Living Translation
I gave them over to worthless decrees and regulations that would not lead to life.
New American Standard Bible
"I also gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances by which they could not live;
New Century Version
I also allowed them to follow rules that were not good and laws by which they could not live.
New English Translation
I also gave them decrees which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.
Update Bible Version
Moreover I also gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live;
Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good, and judgments by which they should not live;
Amplified Bible
"[Therefore] I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live;
English Standard Version
Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life,
World English Bible
Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor and Y yaf to hem comaundementis not good, and domes in whiche thei schulen not lyue.
English Revised Version
Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments wherein they should not live;
Berean Standard Bible
I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.
Contemporary English Version
I gave them laws that bring punishment instead of life,
American Standard Version
Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live;
Bible in Basic English
And further, I gave them rules which were not good and orders in which there was no life for them;
Complete Jewish Bible
I also gave them laws which did them no good and rulings by which they did not live;
Darby Translation
And I also gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances whereby they should not live;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and ordinances whereby they should not live;
King James Version (1611)
Wherefore I gaue them also statutes that were not good, and iudgements whereby they should not liue.
New Life Bible
Then I gave them laws that were not good, and words they could not live by.
New Revised Standard
Moreover I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore I gaue them also statutes that were not good, and iudgements, wherein they should not liue.
George Lamsa Translation
Wherefore I gave them statutes that were not good and judgments whereby they could not live;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I myself, indeed, suffered them to walk in statutes which were not good, - And regulations in which they could not live.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live.
Revised Standard Version
Moreover I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not have life;
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So I gave them commandments that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.
Good News Translation
"Then I gave them laws that are not good and commands that do not bring life.
Christian Standard Bible®
I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances they could not live by.
Hebrew Names Version
Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live;
King James Version
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
Lexham English Bible
And in turn I gave to them rules that were not good and regulations by which they will not live.
Literal Translation
Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live.
Young's Literal Translation
And I also, I have given to them statutes not good, And judgments by which they do not live.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore I gaue them also commaundementes not good, & lawes thorow the which they shulde not lyue,
New King James Version
"Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live;
Legacy Standard Bible
And I also gave them statutes that were not good and judgments by which they could not live;

Contextual Overview

10 Nowe when I had caused them to go out of the lande of Egypt, and brought them into the wildernesse: 11 I gaue them my statutes, and shewed them my iudgementes: which whoso doeth, shall lyue in them. 12 I gaue them also my Sabbath dayes to be a token betwixt me and them, and therby to knowe that I am the Lorde which halowe them. 13 And yet the house of Israel rebelled agaynst me in the wildernesse, they woulde not walke in my statutes, they haue cast away my iudgementes, which whoso doth shall lyue in them, and my Sabbath dayes haue they greatly polluted: then I sayde, I woulde powre out mine indignation vpon them, and consume them in the wildernesse. 14 And I wrought for my names sake, lest it shoulde be defiled before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. 15 Yet neuerthelesse I lift vp my hande vnto them in the wildernesse, that I woulde not bring them into the lande which I gaue them, that floweth with mylke and hony, and is a pleasure of all landes: 16 And that because they cast away my iudgementes and walked not in my statutes: but haue defiled my Sabbathes: for their heart was gone after their idols. 17 Neuerthelesse mine eye spared them, so that I woulde not destroy them, nor consume them in the wildernesse. 18 Moreouer, I sayde vnto their sonnes in the wildernesse, Walke not in the statutes of your fathers, kepe not their iudgementes, and defile not your selues with their idols. 19 I am the Lord your God, walke in my statutes, kepe my iudgementes, & do the.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I gave: The simple meaning of this place is, that when the Israelites had rebelled against God, despised his statutes, and polluted his sabbaths, in effect cast him off, and given themselves up wholly to their idols, then He, in a just judgment for their disobedience, abandoned them, "gave them up to a reprobate mind," - Romans 1:28, and suffered them to walk after the idolatrous, cruel, and impious customs and ordinances of the heathen; by which they were ripened for the destruction which he intended to bring upon them, that they might learn to know God by his judgments, seeing they had despised his mercies. In the same sense God is said judicially to "send a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie," to those who "received not the love of the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." Ezekiel 20:26, Ezekiel 20:39, Ezekiel 14:9-11, Deuteronomy 4:27, Deuteronomy 4:28, Deuteronomy 28:36, Psalms 81:12, Isaiah 66:4, Romans 1:21-28, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11

Reciprocal: Exodus 21:1 - the judgments 2 Samuel 12:11 - I will take 2 Samuel 16:11 - the Lord 2 Samuel 24:1 - moved Acts 7:42 - and gave

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good,.... Yea, were very bad; not the moral law, and the statutes of it; for that is holy, just, and good, though the killing letter and ministration of condemnation and death to the transgressors of it; indeed those laws were both good and bad to different persons, as Abendana observes; good to those that observed them, but not good to those that transgressed them, the issue of which was death: rather these were the statutes and rites of the ceremonial law, which were not in their own nature good; nor did they arise from the nature and holiness of God, but from his will; and though very good and useful under the legal dispensation, until the Messiah came, especially when attended to by faith, and with a view to him; yet had the sanction of death to many of them, that a man could not live by them: but it may be, the punishments inflicted on them for their sins, by the plague, by fire, and by serpents, are meant; which may be called "statutes" and "judgments", because ordered and appointed by the Lord, and according to justice: or, as many, both Jews and Christians, think, the idolatrous laws, usages, and customs of other nations, the traditions of their fathers, their wicked laws and statutes, and their own; which, being left to a reprobate mind, they were suffered to walk in, to their hurt and ruin; which is sometimes the sense of the word give; and so here, he "gave", that is, he permitted them to observe such statutes; and this sense is countenanced and confirmed by Ezekiel 20:26; to which agrees Jarchi's note,

"I delivered them into the hand of their imagination (or corrupt nature) to stumble at their iniquity;''

see Romans 1:28. Kimchi interprets them of laws, decrees, tribute, and taxes, imposed upon them by their enemies that conquered them. The Targum is,

"and I also, when they rebelled against my word, and would not obey my prophets, cast them far off, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies; and they went after their foolish imagination, and made decrees which were not right:''

and judgments, whereby they should not live; yea, which were deadly and destructive to them; which brought ruin, destruction, and death upon them; for more is designed than is expressed: this was the effect of following the customs of the nations, and of walking in the statutes of their fathers, and of their own; whereas, had they walked according to the judgments and statutes of God, moral and ceremonial, they had lived comfortably and prosperously.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The probation in the wilderness. The promise was forfeited by those to whom it was first conditionally made, but was renewed to their children.

Ezekiel 20:11

The “statutes” were given on Mount Sinai, and repeated by Moses before his death (Exodus 20:1 ff; Deuteronomy 4:8).

In them - Or, through them: and in Ezekiel 20:13.

Ezekiel 20:12

See Exodus 31:13. The Sabbath was a sign of a special people, commemorative of the work of creation, and hallowed to the honor of Yahweh, the covenant-God. As man honored God by keeping the Sabbath holy, so by the Sabbath, God “sanctified” Israel and marked them as a holy people. Therefore to profane the Sabbath was to abjure their Divine Governor.

Ezekiel 20:13

My sabbaths they greatly polluted - Not by actual non-observance of the sabbatical rest in the wilderness, but in failing to make the day holy in deed as well as in name by earnest worship and true heart service.

Ezekiel 20:18

The book of Deuteronomy contains the address to “the children” of those who perished in the wilderness. The whole history of Israel was a repetition of this course. The covenant was made with one generation, broken by them, and then renewed to the next.

Ezekiel 20:25

The “judgments whereby they should not live” are those spoken of in Ezekiel 20:18, and are contrasted with the judgments in Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:21, laws other than divine, to which God gives up those whom He afflicts with judicial blindness, because they have willfully closed their eyes, Psalms 81:12; Romans 1:24.

Ezekiel 20:26

To pass through - The word also means to “set apart,” as the firstborn to the Lord Exodus 13:12. They were bidden to “set apart” their firstborn males to the Lord. They “caused them to pass through the fire” to Moloch. An instance of their perversion of God’s laws.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 20:25. I gave them also statutes that were not good — What a foolish noise has been made about this verse by critics, believers and infidels! How is it that God can be said "to give a people statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they could not live?" I answer, in their sense of the words, God never gave any such, at any time, to any people. Let any man produce an example of this kind if he can; or show even the fragment of such a law, sanctioned by the Most High! The simple meaning of this place and all such places is, that when they had rebelled against the Lord, despised his statutes, and polluted his Sabbaths - in effect cast him off, and given themselves wholly to their idols, then he abandoned them, and they abandoned themselves to the customs and ordinances of the heathen. That this is the meaning of the words, requires no proof to them who are the least acquainted with the genius and idioms of the Hebrew language, in which God is a thousand times said to do, what in the course of his providence or justice he only permits to be done.


 
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