Jezekiel 20:23

23 I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, disperse them in the countries;

Jezekiel 20:23 In-Context

21 But they provoked me, and their children walked not in my commandments, and they took no heed to mine ordinances to do them, which a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned my sabbaths: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish mine anger upon them.

22 But I wrought so that my name might not be at all profaned before the Gentiles; and I brought them out in their sight.

23 I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, disperse them in the countries;

24 because they kept not mine ordinances, and rejected my commandments, and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers.

25 So I gave them commandments not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.