Ezekiel 20:23 Cross References

Ezekiel 20:23

23: But I took a solemn oath against them while they were in the wilderness. I vowed I would scatter them among all the nations

I will scatter you among the nations and attack you with my own weapons. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will lie in ruins.

For the LORD will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship foreign gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods made of wood and stone!
There among those nations you will find no place of security and rest. And the LORD will cause your heart to tremble, your eyesight to fail, and your soul to despair.
Your lives will hang in doubt. You will live night and day in fear, with no reason to believe that you will see the morning light.
In the morning you will say, `If only it were night!' And in the evening you will say, `If only it were morning!' You will say this because of your terror at the awesome horrors you see around you.
Then the LORD will send you back to Egypt in ships, a journey I promised you would never again make. There you will offer to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will want to buy you."

Then the mighty angel standing on the sea and on the land lifted his right hand to heaven.
And he swore an oath in the name of the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it. He said, "God will wait no longer.

that he would scatter their descendants among the nations, exiling them to distant lands.

Because of the wicked things Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem, I will make my people an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

I decided to scatter them, so even the memory of them would disappear.
But I feared the taunt of the enemy, that their adversaries might misunderstand and say, "Our power has triumphed! It was not the LORD who did this!"'

But I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful place on earth.

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