Ezequiel 20:24

24 porque não obedeceram às minhas leis, mas rejeitaram os meus decretos e profanaram os meus sábados, e os seus olhos cobiçaram os ídolos de seus pais.

Ezequiel 20:24 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 20:24

Because they had not executed my judgments
Had not done that which was right and just, as the Lord commanded them: but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths;
as their fathers had done: and their eyes were after their fathers' idols;
which they had learned to serve in Egypt, or brought with them from thence; these the eyes and the hearts of their children were after, as theirs find been; and they were more desirous, encouraged, and emboldened to serve them, because they were their fathers'; but this would not excuse their sin; yea, it was rather an aggravation of it, that they should follow them in such practices, for which they had been often reproved and punished.

Ezequiel 20:24 In-Context

22 Mas contive o meu braço e, por amor do meu nome, agi, evitando que o meu nome fosse profanado aos olhos das nações à vista das quais eu os havia tirado do Egito.

23 Com mão erguida, também jurei a eles no deserto que os espalharia entre as nações e os dispersaria por outras terras,

24 porque não obedeceram às minhas leis, mas rejeitaram os meus decretos e profanaram os meus sábados, e os seus olhos cobiçaram os ídolos de seus pais.

25 Também os abandonei a decretos que não eram bons e a leis pelas quais não conseguiam viver;

26 deixei que se contaminassem por meio de suas ofertas, isto é, pelo sacrifício de cada filho mais velho, para que eu os enchesse de pavor e para que eles soubessem que eu sou o SENHOR.