King James Version
Ezekiel 20:25 in the King James Version says “Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;”
Ezekiel 20:25 · KJV
I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. committed: Heb. trespassed a trespass
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properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“Wherefore I gave”
H5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
“them also statutes”
H2706an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“that were not good”
H2896good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good
“and judgments”
H4941properly, 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
“whereby they should not live”
H2421to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
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