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Ezekiel 20:16

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Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

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  1. Ezekiel 20:14

    But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

  2. Ezekiel 20:15

    Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

  3. Ezekiel 20:17

    Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

  4. Ezekiel 20:18

    But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

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