Ezekiel 20:23
Good News Translation
So I made another vow in the desert. I vowed that I would scatter them all over the world.

New Revised Standard Version
Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,

Contemporary English Version
So I solemnly swore that I would scatter the people of Israel across the nations,

New American Bible
Nevertheless I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them in other lands,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the wilderness, to disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the wilderness, to disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries:

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Ezekiel 20:15 So I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, not to bring them into the land which I had given them flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands.

Deuteronomy 32:40 I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.

Revelation 10:5,6 And the angel whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven. . . .

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Leviticus 26:33 And I will scatter you among the Gentiles: and I will draw out the sword after you. And your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:64-68 The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:26,27 I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men. . . .

Psalm 106:27 And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries.

Jeremiah 15:4 And I will give them up to the rage of all the kingdoms of the earth: because of Manasses the son of Ezechias the king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.

Context
Israel's Rebellion in the Wilderness
22But I turned away my hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, out of which I brought them forth in their sight. 23Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the wilderness, to disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries:24Because they had not done my judgments, and had cast off my statutes, and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the idols of their fathers.…
Cross References
Leviticus 26:33
And I will scatter you among the Gentiles: and I will draw out the sword after you. And your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:27
And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.

Deuteronomy 28:64
The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone.

Psalm 44:11
Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves.

Ezekiel 22:15
And I will disperse thee in the nations, and will scatter thee among the countries, and I will put an end to thy uncleanness in thee.

Ezekiel 44:12
Because they ministered to them before their idols, and were a stumblingblock of iniquity to the house of Israel: therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity:

Ezekiel 20:22
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