Ezekiel 20:16-18

21st Century King James Version

¹⁶ because they despised My judgments and walked not in My statutes, but polluted My Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

¹⁷ Nevertheless Mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

¹⁸ “‘But I said unto their children in the wilderness: “Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.