Ezekiel 20:16
Ezekiel · Old Testament · Chapter 20
“Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.”Ezekiel 20:16
What Does Ezekiel 20:16 Mean?
Ezekiel 20:16 is found in the book of Ezekiel, chapter 20, verse 16 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 17 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (17)
These passages are connected to Ezekiel 20:16 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Proverbs 13:13“Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.”Ezekiel 14:3“Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?”Amos 2:4“Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:”Ezekiel 20:24“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.”Numbers 15:39“And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:”Amos 5:25“Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?”Ezekiel 20:8“But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.”Exodus 16:28“And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?”Exodus 31:14“Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.”Exodus 32:1“And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.”Numbers 25:2“And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.”Jeremiah 7:24“But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.”Jeremiah 17:23“But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.”Ezekiel 11:12“And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.”Ezekiel 20:13“But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.”Ezekiel 23:8“Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.”Acts 7:39“To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,”
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