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Ezekiel 20:23

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I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

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  1. Ezekiel 20:21

    Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

  2. Ezekiel 20:22

    Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.

  3. 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.

  4. Ezekiel 20:25

    Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

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