🔥WEB · Ezekiel 20:19

What does Ezekiel 20:19 mean?

"I am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them."

— Ezekiel 20:19 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

16

because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

17

Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.

18

I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

19

I am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them.

20

Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’

21

“‘“But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

22

Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

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