Ezekiel 11:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then you shall know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose ordinances you have not kept, but you have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”

Cross References

1 Kings 11:33

This is because he has forsaken me, worshiped Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and has not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, as his father David did.

2 Kings 16:3

but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even made his son pass through fire, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the people of Israel.

2 Kings 18:12

because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God but transgressed his covenant—all that Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded; they neither listened nor obeyed.

2 Kings 21:2

He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, following the abominable practices of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

2 Kings 21:22

he abandoned the Lord, the God of his ancestors, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.

2 Kings 21:9

But they did not listen; Manasseh misled them to do more evil than the nations had done that the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.

2 Chronicles 13:9

Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the descendants of Aaron, and the Levites and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to be consecrated with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are no gods.

2 Chronicles 28:3

and he made offerings in the valley of the son of Hinnom and made his sons pass through fire, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the people of Israel.

2 Chronicles 36:14

All the leading priests and the people also were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations, and they polluted the house of the Lord that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

Ezra 9:7

From the days of our ancestors to this day we have been deep in guilt, and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been handed over to the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as is now the case.

Nehemiah 9:33

You have been just in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly;

Nehemiah 9:34

our kings, our officials, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law or heeded the commandments and the warnings that you gave them.

Psalm 78:10

They did not keep God’s covenant and refused to walk according to his law.

Jeremiah 10:2

Thus says the Lord: Do not learn the way of the nations or be dismayed at the signs of the heavens, for the nations are dismayed at them.

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: Stand at the crossroads and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, “We will not walk in it.”

Ezekiel 11:21

But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 18:8

does not take advance or accrued interest, withholds his hand from iniquity, executes true justice between contending parties,

Ezekiel 18:9

follows my statutes, and is careful to observe my ordinances, acting faithfully—such a one is righteous; he shall surely live, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 20:16

because they rejected my ordinances and did not observe my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, for their heart went after their idols.

Ezekiel 20:21

But the children rebelled against me; they did not follow my statutes and were not careful to observe my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths. Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20:24

because they had not executed my ordinances but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their ancestors’ idols.

Ezekiel 5:6

But she has rebelled against my ordinances and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries all around her, rejecting my ordinances and not following my statutes.

Ezekiel 8:10

So I went in and looked; there, portrayed on the wall all around, were all kinds of creeping things and loathsome animals and all the idols of the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 8:14

Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord; women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

Ezekiel 8:16

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord; there, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, prostrating themselves to the sun toward the east.

Daniel 9:10

and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by following his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

Leviticus 18:3

You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes.

Leviticus 26:40

“But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors—their treachery against me and also their continued hostility to me,