Ezekiel 11:12

Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Yahweh speaks through Ezekiel to the exiled leaders of Israel during a vision of impending judgment, immediately before the death of Pelatiah and the prophet’s subsequent prayer. The words — וִֽ/ידַעְתֶּם֙ (vi./da'.Tem) = you will know and הֲלַכְתֶּ֔ם (ha.lakh.Tem) = you have walked. The thread — This declaration follows the vision of idolatrous practices recorded in Ezekiel 8:10, 8:14, and 8:16, which detail the defilement of the temple courts that triggers the announced judgment. Why it lands — The text states that refusing Yahweh’s statutes and adopting foreign customs will force the people to recognize His authority through the execution of judgment. It demands a clear acknowledgment that covenant faithfulness, not cultural conformity, defines the relationship between God and His people.

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The Hebrew words

וִֽידַעְתֶּם֙vi./da'.Temand/ you will know כִּֽי־ki-that אֲנִ֣י'a.NiI יְהוָ֔הYah.weh[am] Yahweh אֲשֶׁ֤ר'a.Sherwhom בְּחֻקַּי֙be./chu.Ka/iin/ statutes/ my לֹ֣אlo'not הֲלַכְתֶּ֔םha.lakh.Temyou have walked וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖יu./mish.pa.Ta/iand/ judgments/ my לֹ֣אlo'not עֲשִׂיתֶ֑ם'a.si.Temyou have done וּֽכְמִשְׁפְּטֵ֧יu./khe./mish.pe.Teiand/ according to/ [the] judgments of הַגּוֹיִ֛םha./go.Yimthe/ nations אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.Sherwhich סְבִיבוֹתֵיכֶ֖םse.vi.vo.tei./Khem[are] around/ you עֲשִׂיתֶֽם׃'a.si.Temyou have done

King James Version

And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.

Cross-references

Ezekiel 8:10 So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 8:14 Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.
Ezekiel 8:16 So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.
Psalms 106:35 but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
Leviticus 18:3 You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.
Leviticus 18:24 Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.
Leviticus 26:40 But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
Deuteronomy 12:30 be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”
1 Kings 11:33 For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
2 Kings 16:3 Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.