Ezekiel 20:18 Cross References

Ezekiel 20:18

18: "Then I warned their children and told them not to follow in their parents' footsteps, defiling themselves with their idols.

You saw what the LORD did to you at Baal-peor, where the LORD your God destroyed everyone who had worshiped the god Baal of Peor.
But all of you who were faithful to the LORD your God are still alive today.
"You must obey these laws and regulations when you arrive in the land you are about to enter and occupy. The LORD my God gave them to me and commanded me to pass them on to you.
If you obey them carefully, you will display your wisdom and intelligence to the surrounding nations. When they hear about these laws, they will exclaim, `What other nation is as wise and prudent as this!'

For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver.

Then I said to them, `Each of you, get rid of your idols. Do not defile yourselves with the Egyptian gods, for I am the LORD your God.'

"I, the LORD, was very angry with your ancestors.
Therefore, say to the people, `This is what the LORD Almighty says: Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD Almighty.'
Do not be like your ancestors who would not listen when the earlier prophets said to them, `This is what the LORD Almighty says: Turn from your evil ways and stop all your evil practices.'

Israel treated it all so lightly--she thought nothing of committing adultery by worshiping idols made of wood and stone. So now the land has been greatly defiled.

"And when I brought you into a fruitful land to enjoy its bounty and goodness, you defiled my land and corrupted the inheritance I had promised you.

so the next generation might know them--even the children not yet born--that they in turn might teach their children.
So each generation can set its hope anew on God, remembering his glorious miracles and obeying his commands.
Then they will not be like their ancestors--stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God.

"You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? But your ancestors did, and so do you!

But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness.
And your children will be like shepherds, wandering in the wilderness forty years. In this way, they will pay for your faithlessness, until the last of you lies dead in the wilderness.

How terrible it will be for you! For you build tombs for the very prophets your ancestors killed long ago.
Murderers! You agree with your ancestors that what they did was right. You would have done the same yourselves.

"The LORD was furious with Israel and made them wander in the wilderness for forty years until the whole generation that sinned against him had died.
But here you are, a brood of sinners, doing exactly the same thing! You are making the LORD even angrier with Israel.
If you turn away from him like this and he abandons them again in the wilderness, you will be responsible for destroying this entire nation!"

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