Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version because they rejected my laws and did not follow my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths. For their hearts were devoted to 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. 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. Berean Standard Bible because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols. King James Bible Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after 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 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. NASB 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. NASB 1977 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. 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. Christian Standard Bible because they rejected my ordinances, profaned my Sabbaths, and did not follow my statutes. For their hearts went after their idols. Holman Christian Standard Bible because they rejected My ordinances, profaned My Sabbaths, and did not follow My statutes. For their hearts went 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. Contemporary English Version I said this because they had not only ignored my laws and teachings, but had disgraced my Sabbath and worshiped idols. 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation They rejected my rules, and they didn't live by my laws. They dishonored the days to worship me, because their hearts chased disgusting 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. International Standard Version because they kept on rejecting my ordinances. They didn't live life consistent with my statutes, they profaned my Sabbaths, and their hearts followed their idols. Majority Standard Bible because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols. NET Bible I did this because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols. New Heart 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. 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. 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionBecause 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. 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. Smith's Literal Translation Because they rejected upon my judgments, and my laws they went not in them, and my Sabbaths they profaned: for their heart went after their blocks. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleBecause they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols. Catholic Public Domain Version For they cast aside my judgments, and they did not walk in my precepts, and they violated my Sabbaths. For their heart went after idols. New American Bible Their hearts followed after their idols so closely that they did not live by my statutes, but rejected my ordinances and desecrated my sabbaths. New Revised Standard Version because they rejected my ordinances and did not observe my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleBecause they despised my judgments and polluted my sabbaths exceedingly; for their hearts went after their idols. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Because they rejected my judgments and they have severely defiled my Sabbaths, and their heart goes after their idols OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917because they rejected Mine ordinances, and walked not in My statutes, and profaned My sabbaths--for their heart went after their idols. Brenton Septuagint Translation because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my commandments, but profaned my sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Israel's Rebellion in Egypt…15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands— 16because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols. 17Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.… Cross References Psalm 78:40-41 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert! / Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel. Numbers 14:22-23 not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times— / not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it. Deuteronomy 32:51-52 For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence. / Although you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Israelites, you shall not enter it.” Hebrews 3:16-19 For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? / And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? / And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? ... Psalm 95:10-11 For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.” / So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.” Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them. Numbers 20:12 But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.” Deuteronomy 9:23-24 And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him. / You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you. Hebrews 4:1-2 Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it. / For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it. Psalm 106:24-26 They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise. / They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD. / So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness, Jeremiah 7:23-24 but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you. / Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. Nehemiah 9:16-17 But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments. / They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them. Acts 7:39-42 But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt. / They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’ / At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands. ... 1 Corinthians 10:5-6 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness. / These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did. Deuteronomy 1:26-27 But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. / You grumbled in your tents and said, “Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be annihilated. Treasury of Scripture Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols. they Ezekiel 20:13,14 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 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. Ezekiel 14:3,4 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 inquired of at all by 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. Jump to Previous Continually Decrees Desecrated Despised Devoted Follow Guided Heart Hearts Idols Judgments Kick Laws Orders Ordinances Polluted Profaned Rejected Respect Rules Sabbaths Statutes Turned Walk WalkedJump to Next Continually Decrees Desecrated Despised Devoted Follow Guided Heart Hearts Idols Judgments Kick Laws Orders Ordinances Polluted Profaned Rejected Respect Rules Sabbaths Statutes Turned Walk WalkedEzekiel 20 1. God refuses to be consulted by the elders of Israel4. He shows the story of their rebellions in Egypt 19. in the desert 27. and in the land 33. He promises to gather them by the Gospel 45. Under the name of a forest he shows the destruction of Jerusalem because they kept rejecting My ordinances This phrase highlights the Israelites' persistent disobedience to God's laws. The ordinances refer to the specific commands given by God to His people, which were meant to guide their moral and spiritual conduct. This rejection is a recurring theme in the Old Testament, where Israel often turned away from God's commands, as seen in passages like Judges 2:11-13. The rejection of divine ordinances signifies a deeper spiritual rebellion and a refusal to acknowledge God's authority. refusing to walk in My statutes and profaning My Sabbaths for their hearts continually went after their idols Persons / Places / Events 1. EzekielA prophet during the Babylonian exile, tasked with delivering God's messages to the Israelites. 2. Israelites The people of God who were in rebellion against Him, leading to their exile. 3. Babylonian Exile The period when the Israelites were taken captive by Babylon as a consequence of their disobedience. 4. God's Ordinances and Statutes The laws and commands given by God to guide the Israelites in righteous living. 5. Idolatry The worship of idols, which was a significant sin among the Israelites, leading them away from God. Teaching Points The Importance of ObedienceGod's ordinances and statutes are given for our benefit and protection. Disobedience leads to spiritual and sometimes physical consequences. The Sacredness of the Sabbath Observing the Sabbath is a sign of our covenant with God and a reminder of His creation and redemption. Guarding Our Hearts Against Idolatry Idolatry is not just the worship of physical idols but can be anything that takes precedence over God in our lives. The Consequences of Rebellion The Israelites' exile serves as a warning of the consequences of turning away from God. The Call to Repentance Despite their rebellion, God continually calls His people to return to Him, offering forgiveness and restoration.Verse 16. - Their heart went after their idols. The words may point generally to the fact that the idolatrous tendencies of the people, though suppressed, were not really eradicated. The history of Baal-peor (Numbers 25:3-9) shows how ready they were to pass into act, and Amos 5:25, 26 implies a tradition of other like acts during the whole period of the wanderings in the wilderness. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew becauseיַ֜עַן (ya·‘an) Adverb Strong's 3282: Heed, purpose, to indicate the reason, cause they kept rejecting מָאָ֗סוּ (mā·’ā·sū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 3988: To spurn, to disappear My ordinances, בְּמִשְׁפָּטַ֣י (bə·miš·pā·ṭay) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style profaning חִלֵּ֑לוּ (ḥil·lê·lū) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play My Sabbaths, שַׁבְּתוֹתַ֖י (šab·bə·ṯō·w·ṯay) Noun - common plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 7676: Intermission, the Sabbath and refusing לֹא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no to walk הָלְכ֣וּ (hā·lə·ḵū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk in My statutes. חֻקּוֹתַי֙ (ḥuq·qō·w·ṯay) Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 2708: Something prescribed, an enactment, statute For כִּ֛י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction their hearts לִבָּ֥ם (lib·bām) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre continually went הֹלֵֽךְ׃ (hō·lêḵ) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk after אַחֲרֵ֥י (’a·ḥă·rê) Preposition Strong's 310: The hind or following part their idols. גִלּוּלֵיהֶ֖ם (ḡil·lū·lê·hem) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 1544: A log, an idol Links Ezekiel 20:16 NIVEzekiel 20:16 NLT Ezekiel 20:16 ESV Ezekiel 20:16 NASB Ezekiel 20:16 KJV Ezekiel 20:16 BibleApps.com Ezekiel 20:16 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 20:16 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 20:16 French Bible Ezekiel 20:16 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Ezekiel 20:16 Because they rejected my ordinances and didn't (Ezek. 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