Ezekiel 20

Ezekiel 20:4

Do not intercede for, but reprove, convince, and condemn them for their own and their fathers’ abominable iniquities, which they imitate. 5, 6. I entered into covenant with them by solemn oath, and manifested my power for their deliverance

Ezekiel 20:7

Renounce, with abhorrence, those abominable idols, to which ye with pleasure lift up your eyes in worshipping them. 9, 14, 22. Out of respect to my own honour and glory, I spared them, and proceeded to bestow further deliverances on them

Ezekiel 20:12

I gave them my sabbaths and ordinances, as a token of the covenant relation between me and them, and in order to promote their sanctification in heart and life. 11, 13, 21. No doubt a perfect fulfilment of the broken covenant of works, if possible, would entitle a man to eternal life; but the immediate meaning of these verses is, that, in a careful observance of God’s laws, the Jews should enjoy prosperity in Canaan. 25, 26, 28. I permitted them to make for themselves wicked and destructive rules of superstitious and idolatrous worship, and even to provoke me to desolate their country, by the sacrificing of their own children to Moloch.—For by their inventions in my worship, or in that of their idols, they have exceedingly disparaged my wisdom, sovereign authority, and sole Deity 2 David wear a sceptre, till Christ take his spiritual kingdom in the gospel church, nay, in the millennium

Ezekiel 20:29

Your diviners falsely promise you safety and happiness, and that you shall tread down the Jews, whose wickedness hath made them fully ripe for punishment: but they will really bring you into the same miserable condition with these wicked Jews