Ezekiel 20:16

16 because they despised my rights and did not walk in my statutes but polluted my Sabbaths, for their heart went after their idols.

Ezekiel 20:16 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 20:16

Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my
statutes, but polluted my sabbaths
Which were just causes of divine resentment and anger; (See Gill on Ezekiel 20:13); for their heart went after their idols;
which they had served in Egypt; and that led them off from the true worship and service of God; no man can serve two masters; if he holds to the one, and his heart is towards him, he will despise the other; and yet these idols were no other, as the word signifies, than dunghill gods, as in ( Ezekiel 20:16 ) ; and such are all worldly things, in comparison of God, that the heart of man is going after.

Ezekiel 20:16 In-Context

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

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

16 because they despised my rights and did not walk in my statutes but polluted my Sabbaths, for their heart went after their idols.

17 With all this, my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

18 But I said unto their sons in the wilderness: Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their laws, nor defile yourselves with their idols: