Ezekiel 20:5-9

5 and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore with uplifted hand to the descendants of Jacob and revealed myself to them in Egypt. With uplifted hand I said to them, “I am the LORD your God.”
6 On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.
7 And I said to them, “Each of you, get rid of the vile images you have set your eyes on, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.”
8 “ ‘But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; they did not get rid of the vile images they had set their eyes on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in Egypt.
9 But for the sake of my name, I brought them out of Egypt. I did it to keep my name from being profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they lived and in whose sight I had revealed myself to the Israelites.

Cross References 14

  • 1. S Deuteronomy 7:6
  • 2. S Genesis 14:22; S Numbers 14:30
  • 3. S Leviticus 11:44; Exodus 6:7
  • 4. S Exodus 6:8
  • 5. S Exodus 3:8; Jeremiah 32:22
  • 6. S Deuteronomy 8:7; Psalms 48:2; Daniel 8:9; Daniel 11:41; Malachi 3:12
  • 7. Exodus 20:4
  • 8. S Ezekiel 6:9
  • 9. S Exodus 20:2; Leviticus 18:3; Deuteronomy 29:18
  • 10. S Jeremiah 7:26
  • 11. S Jeremiah 11:10; S Ezekiel 7:8; S Ezekiel 16:26
  • 12. S Exodus 32:7; Deuteronomy 9:7; S Isaiah 63:10
  • 13. S Isaiah 48:11
  • 14. Ezekiel 36:22; Ezekiel 39:7
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