What Does Ezekiel 20:24 Mean?

properly, heed; by implication, purpose (sake or account); used adverbially to indicate the reason or cause

“my judgments”

properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“Because they had not executed”

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

“my statutes”

a statute

“but had despised”

to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“my sabbaths”

intermission, i.e (specifically) the sabbath

“and had polluted”

properly, to bore, i.e., (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin

“were after”

properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)

“idols”

properly, a log (as round); by implication, an idol

“their fathers”

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“and their eyes”

an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)