Ezekiel 20:25
Good News Translation
"Then I gave them laws that are not good and commands that do not bring life.

New Revised Standard Version
Moreover I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.

Contemporary English Version
I gave them laws that bring punishment instead of life,

New American Bible
Therefore I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances through which they could not have life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live.

Romans 1:28 And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.

Ezekiel 20:26,39 And I polluted them in their own gifts, when they offered all that opened the womb, for their offences: and they shall know that I am the Lord. . . .

Ezekiel 14:9-11 And when the prophet shall err, and speak a word: I the Lord have deceived that prophet: and I will stretch forth my hand upon him, and will cut him off from the midst of my people Israel. . . .

Deuteronomy 4:27,28 And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:36 The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, whom thou shalt have appointed over thee, into a nation which thou and thy fathers know not: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, wood and stone.

Psalm 81:12 So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Isaiah 66:4 Wherefore I also will choose their mockeries, and will bring upon them the things they feared: because I called, and there was none that would answer; I have spoken, and they heard not; and they have done evil in my eyes, and have chosen the things that displease me.

Romans 1:21-28 Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened. . . .

2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power and signs and lying wonders: . . .

Context
Israel's Rebellion in the Wilderness
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. 25Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live.26And I polluted them in their own gifts, when they offered all that opened the womb, for their offences: and they shall know that I am the Lord.…
Cross References
Romans 1:21
Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened.

Romans 1:28
And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.

Psalm 81:12
So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Isaiah 66:4
Wherefore I also will choose their mockeries, and will bring upon them the things they feared: because I called, and there was none that would answer; I have spoken, and they heard not; and they have done evil in my eyes, and have chosen the things that displease me.

Ezekiel 20:24
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