Ezekiel 20:23-26

Common English Bible

²³ And I swore yet another solemn pledge in the desert, that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them throughout the earth, ²⁴ because they didn’t observe my case laws, they rejected my regulations, and they degraded my sabbaths while they kept looking to their parents’ idols. ²⁵ I also issued regulations that were not good and case laws by which they could not live. ²⁶ I defiled them with their very gifts when they offered up all their oldest children. They were supposed to be so horrified that they would acknowledge that I am the Lord.