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Literal Standard Version

Ezekiel 20:16

Because they kicked against My judgments, || And they have not walked in My statutes, || And they have defiled My Sabbaths, || For their heart is going after their idols.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Sabbath;   Sin;   Wicked (People);   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idolatry;   Sabbath, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Sabbath;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Sabbath;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Sabbath;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezekiel;   Feasts;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lead;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Sabbath;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafṭarah;   Holiness;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
because they rejected my ordinances, profaned my Sabbaths, and did not follow my statutes. For their hearts went after their idols.
Hebrew Names Version
because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in my statutes, and profaned my Shabbatot: for their heart went after their idols.
King James Version
Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
English Standard Version
because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
New American Standard Bible
because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they also profaned My Sabbaths, because their heart continually followed their idols.
New Century Version
This was because they rejected my laws and did not follow my rules. They dishonored my Sabbaths and wanted to worship their idols.
Amplified Bible
because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they even profaned My Sabbaths, for their heart continually went after their [worthless] idols.
World English Bible
because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Because they cast away my iudgments, and walked not in my statutes, but haue polluted my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idoles.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they even profaned My sabbaths, for their heart continually went after their idols.
Legacy Standard Bible
because they rejected My judgments, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they even profaned My sabbaths, for their heart continually walked after their idols.
Berean Standard Bible
because they kept rejecting My ordinances, profaning My Sabbaths, and refusing to walk in My statutes. For their hearts continually went after their idols.
Contemporary English Version
I said this because they had not only ignored my laws and teachings, but had disgraced my Sabbath and worshiped idols.
Complete Jewish Bible
because they had rejected my rulings, did not live by my laws and profaned my shabbats; since their hearts went after their idols.
Darby Translation
because they rejected mine ordinances and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Easy-to-Read Version
"‘The people of Israel refused to obey my rules or to follow my laws. They treated my days of rest as if they were not important. They did all these things because their hearts belonged to their filthy idols.
George Lamsa Translation
Because they despised my judgments and polluted my sabbaths exceedingly; for their hearts went after their idols.
Good News Translation
I made the vow because they had rejected my commands, broken my laws, and profaned the Sabbath—they preferred to worship their idols.
Lexham English Bible
because they despised my judgments, and they did not walk in my statutes, and my Sabbaths they profaned, for their heart was going after their idols.
Literal Translation
because they despised My judgments, and they did not walk in My statutes, and they profaned My sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& yt because they refused my lawes, & walked not in my comaundemetes, but had vnhalowed my Sabbathes, for their herte was gone after their Idols.
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.
Bible in Basic English
Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
because they rejected Mine ordinances, and walked not in My statutes, and profaned My sabbaths--for their heart went after their idols.
King James Version (1611)
Because they despised my iudgements, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idoles.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my commandments, but profaned my sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts.
English Revised Version
because they rejected my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thei castiden awei my domes, and yeden not in my comaundementis, and thei defouliden my sabatis; for the herte of hem yede after idols.
Update Bible Version
because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Webster's Bible Translation
Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
New English Translation
I did this because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols.
New King James Version
because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
New Living Translation
For they had rejected my regulations, refused to follow my decrees, and violated my Sabbath days. Their hearts were given to their idols.
New Life Bible
This was because they turned away from My Laws and did not obey My Words. They did not keep My Days of Rest holy, for they followed after their false gods with all their heart.
New Revised Standard
because they rejected my ordinances and did not observe my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Because my regulations, they had rejected. And as for my statutes, they had not walked therein, My sabbaths also, had they profaned; or after their manufactured gods, their heart had been going.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols.
Revised Standard Version
because they rejected my ordinances and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Young's Literal Translation
Because against My judgments they did kick, And in My statutes they have not walked, And My sabbaths they have polluted, For after their idols their heart is going.

Contextual Overview

10And I bring them out of the land of Egypt, || And I bring them into the wilderness, 11And I give My statutes to them, || And I caused them to know My judgments, || Which the man who does—lives by them. 12And I have also given My Sabbaths to them, || To be for a sign between Me and them, || To know that I [am] YHWH who is sanctifying them. 13And the house of Israel rebels against Me in the wilderness, || They have not walked in My statutes, || And they have despised My judgments, || Which the man who does—lives by them. And they have greatly defiled My Sabbaths, || And I speak—to pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them. 14And I do [it] for My Name's sake, || Not to defile [it] before the eyes of the nations, || Before whose eyes I brought them forth. 15And also, I have lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, || Not to bring them into the land that I had given, || Flowing with milk and honey, || It [is] a beauty to all the lands, 16Because they kicked against My judgments, || And they have not walked in My statutes, || And they have defiled My Sabbaths, || For their heart is going after their idols.17And My eye has pity on them—against destroying them, || And I have not made an end of them in the wilderness. 18And I say to their sons in the wilderness: Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, || And do not observe their judgments, || And do not defile yourselves with their idols. 19I [am] your God YHWH, walk in My statutes, || And observe My judgments, and do them,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they: Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:14

for their: They still had a hankering after the idolatries they had learned in Egypt, to which they added new idols, which they had seen in countries through which they had travelled, as those of the Midianites, Amorites, etc. Ezekiel 20:8, Ezekiel 14:3, Ezekiel 14:4, Ezekiel 23:8, Exodus 32:1-8, Numbers 15:39, Numbers 25:2, Amos 5:25, Amos 5:26, Acts 7:39-43

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:28 - General Exodus 31:14 - keep Proverbs 13:13 - despiseth Jeremiah 7:24 - they Jeremiah 17:23 - they obeyed Ezekiel 11:12 - General Ezekiel 20:24 - they had Amos 2:4 - because

Cross-References

Genesis 20:3
And God comes to Abimelech in a dream of the night and says to him, "Behold, you [are] a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken—and she married to a husband."
Genesis 20:5
Has he not himself said to me, She [is] my sister! And she, even she herself, said, He [is] my brother; in the integrity of my heart, and in the innocence of my hands, I have done this."
Genesis 20:6
And God says to him in the dream, "Indeed, I have known that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I withhold you, even I, from sinning against Me, therefore I have not permitted you to come against her;
Genesis 20:8
And Abimelech rises early in the morning, and calls for all his servants, and speaks all these words in their ears; and the men fear exceedingly;
Genesis 20:9
and Abimelech calls for Abraham and says to him, "What have you done to us? And what have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me, and on my kingdom, a great sin? Works which are not done you have done with me."
Genesis 24:65
and she says to the servant, "Who [is] this man who is walking in the field to meet us?" And the servant says, "It [is] my lord"; and she takes the veil, and covers herself.
Genesis 26:11
and Abimelech commands all the people, saying, "He who comes against this man or against his wife, dying does die."
Proverbs 12:1
Whoever is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, || And whoever is hating reproof [is] brutish.
Proverbs 25:12
A ring of gold, and an ornament of pure gold, || [Is] the wise reprover to an attentive ear.
Proverbs 27:5
Better [is] open reproof than hidden love.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths,.... Which were just causes of divine resentment and anger; :-;

for their heart went after their idols; which they had served in Egypt; and that led them off from the true worship and service of God; no man can serve two masters; if he holds to the one, and his heart is towards him, he will despise the other; and yet these idols were no other, as the word signifies, than dunghill gods, as in Ezekiel 20:16; and such are all worldly things, in comparison of God, that the heart of man is going after.

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.


 
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