Ezekiel 20:19

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I am the Lord your God. Follow my statutes, keep my ordinances, and practice them.

Hebrew Names Version
I am the LORD your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;

King James Version
I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

English Standard Version
I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules,

New American Standard Bible
'I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and follow them.

New Century Version
I am the Lord your God. Live by my rules, obey my laws, and follow them.

Amplified Bible
'I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and observe them.

World English Bible
I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;

Geneva Bible (1587)
I am the Lord your God: walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements and doe them,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and observe them.

Legacy Standard Bible
I am Yahweh your God; walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them.

Berean Standard Bible
I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.

Contemporary English Version
I reminded them that I was the Lord their God and that they should obey my laws and teachings.

Complete Jewish Bible
I am Adonai your God; live by my laws, observe my rulings, and obey them,

Darby Translation
I [am] Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;

Easy-to-Read Version
I am the Lord . I am your God. Obey my laws and keep my commands. Do the things I tell you.

George Lamsa Translation
I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes and keep my judgments and do them:

Good News Translation
I am the Lord your God. Obey my laws and my commands.

Lexham English Bible
I, Yahweh, am your God, so go in my statutes and keep my regulations and do them.

Literal Translation
I am Jehovah your God, walk in My statutes, and keep My judgments, and do them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for I am the LORDE youre God. But walke in my statutes, kepe my lawes & do them,

American Standard Version
I am Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;

Bible in Basic English
I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, and keep Mine ordinances, and do them;

King James Version (1611)
I am the Lord your God: walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements and doe them:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I am the Lord your God, walke in my statutes, kepe my iudgementes, & do the.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I am the Lord your God; walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;

English Revised Version
I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y am youre Lord God, go ye in my comaundementis, and kepe ye my domes, and do ye tho.

Update Bible Version
I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;

Webster's Bible Translation
I [am] the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

New English Translation
I am the Lord your God; follow my statutes, observe my regulations, and carry them out.

New King James Version
I am the LORD your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them;

New Living Translation
‘I am the Lord your God,' I told them. ‘Follow my decrees, pay attention to my regulations,

New Life Bible
I am the Lord your God. Keep My Laws and obey My Words.

New Revised Standard
I the Lord am your God; follow my statutes, and be careful to observe my ordinances,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I, Yahweh, am your God, In my statutes, walk ye, - And my regulations, observe ye and do them;

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am the Lord your God: walk ye in my statutes, and observe my judgments, and do them.

Revised Standard Version
I the LORD am your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to observe my ordinances,

Young's Literal Translation
I [am] Jehovah your God, in My statutes walk, And My judgments observe, and do them,

Contextual Overview

¹¹"‘I gave them laws for living, showed them how to live well and obediently before me. I also gave them my weekly holy rest days, my "Sabbaths," a kind of signpost erected between me and them to show them that I, God , am in the business of making them holy. ¹³"‘But Israel rebelled against me in the desert. They didn't follow my statutes. They despised my laws for living well and obediently in the ways I had set out. And they totally desecrated my holy Sabbaths. I seriously considered unleashing my anger on them right there in the desert. But I thought better of it and acted out of who I was, not by what I felt, so that I might be honored and not blasphemed by the nations who had seen me bring them out. But I did lift my hand in a solemn oath there in the desert and promise them that I would not bring them into the country flowing with milk and honey that I had chosen for them, that jewel among all lands. I canceled my promise because they despised my laws for living obediently, wouldn't follow my statutes, and went ahead and desecrated my holy Sabbaths. They preferred living by their no-god idols. But I didn't go all the way: I didn't wipe them out, didn't finish them off in the desert. ¹⁸"‘Then I addressed myself to their children in the desert: "Don't do what your parents did. Don't take up their practices. Don't make yourselves filthy with their no-god idols. I myself am God , your God: Keep my statutes and live by my laws. Keep my Sabbaths as holy rest days, signposts between me and you, signaling that I am God , your God." ²¹"‘But the children also rebelled against me. They neither followed my statutes nor kept my laws for living upright and well. And they desecrated my Sabbaths. I seriously considered dumping my anger on them, right there in the desert. But I thought better of it and acted out of who I was, not by what I felt, so that I might be honored and not blasphemed by the nations who had seen me bring them out. ²³"‘But I did lift my hand in solemn oath there in the desert, and swore that I would scatter them all over the world, disperse them every which way because they didn't keep my laws nor live by my statutes. They desecrated my Sabbaths and remained addicted to the no-god idols of their parents. Since they were determined to live bad lives, I myself gave them statutes that could not produce goodness and laws that did not produce life. I abandoned them. Filthy in the gutter, they perversely sacrificed their firstborn children in the fire. The very horror should have shocked them into recognizing that I am God .'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Lord: Exodus 20:2, Exodus 20:3, Deuteronomy 5:6, Deuteronomy 5:7, Deuteronomy 7:4-6, Psalms 81:9, Psalms 81:10, Jeremiah 3:22, Jeremiah 3:23

walk: Ezekiel 11:20, Ezekiel 36:27, Ezekiel 37:24, Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 5:1, Deuteronomy 5:32, Deuteronomy 5:33, Deuteronomy 6:1 - Deuteronomy 8:20, Deuteronomy 10:1 - Deuteronomy 12:32, Nehemiah 9:13, Nehemiah 9:14, Psalms 19:7-11, Psalms 105:45, Titus 2:11-14

Reciprocal: Leviticus 18:2 - General Leviticus 18:4 - General 1 Kings 15:12 - all the idols Psalms 50:7 - I am Psalms 89:30 - walk Ezekiel 20:7 - I am

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I [am] the Lord your God,.... Not only that had made them and preserved them, but had chose them above all people to be his people; who had made a covenant with them, and had distinguished them by his favours from all others:

walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; which he had given unto their fathers, and they had neglected and despised; those contained in the decalogue, and in the whole book of Deuteronomy, and elsewhere,

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The probation in the wilderness. The promise was forfeited by those to whom it was first conditionally made, but was renewed to their children.

Ezekiel 20:11

The “statutes” were given on Mount Sinai, and repeated by Moses before his death (Exodus 20:1 ff; Deuteronomy 4:8).

In them - Or, through them: and in Ezekiel 20:13.

Ezekiel 20:12

See Exodus 31:13. The Sabbath was a sign of a special people, commemorative of the work of creation, and hallowed to the honor of Yahweh, the covenant-God. As man honored God by keeping the Sabbath holy, so by the Sabbath, God “sanctified” Israel and marked them as a holy people. Therefore to profane the Sabbath was to abjure their Divine Governor.

Ezekiel 20:13

My sabbaths they greatly polluted - Not by actual non-observance of the sabbatical rest in the wilderness, but in failing to make the day holy in deed as well as in name by earnest worship and true heart service.

Ezekiel 20:18

The book of Deuteronomy contains the address to “the children” of those who perished in the wilderness. The whole history of Israel was a repetition of this course. The covenant was made with one generation, broken by them, and then renewed to the next.

Ezekiel 20:25

The “judgments whereby they should not live” are those spoken of in Ezekiel 20:18, and are contrasted with the judgments in Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:21, laws other than divine, to which God gives up those whom He afflicts with judicial blindness, because they have willfully closed their eyes, Psalms 81:12; Romans 1:24.

Ezekiel 20:26

To pass through - The word also means to “set apart,” as the firstborn to the Lord Exodus 13:12. They were bidden to “set apart” their firstborn males to the Lord. They “caused them to pass through the fire” to Moloch. An instance of their perversion of God’s laws.