Ezekiel 20:19

I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — God speaks to the Israelites in the wilderness through Ezekiel, immediately after warning them against adopting their ancestors' statutes and idolatry.

The words — The command pivots on לֵ֑כוּ (lê·ḵû, "walk") and שִׁמְר֖וּ (šim·rû, "keep"), directing the people to actively follow divine statutes and judgments.

The thread — This same call to walk in statutes and keep ordinances appears in Ezekiel 36:27 and Psalms 105:45.

Why it lands — The text demands immediate, practical obedience to God's laws as the defining mark of His people, preceding any promise of spiritual empowerment.

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The Hebrew words

אֲנִי֙'a.NiI יְהוָ֣הYah.weh[am] Yahweh אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֔ם'e.lo.hei./KhemGod/ your בְּחֻקּוֹתַ֖יbe./chu.ko.Ta/iin/ statutes/ my לֵ֑כוּLe.khuwalk וְאֶת־ve./'Etand/ <obj.>מִשְׁפָּטַ֥יmish.pa.Ta/ijudgments/ my שִׁמְר֖וּshim.Rukeep וַעֲשׂ֥וּva./'a.Suand/ do אוֹתָֽם׃'o.Ta/m<obj.>/ them

King James Version

I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

Cross-references

Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
Deuteronomy 5:32 So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.
Psalms 105:45 that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
Jeremiah 3:22 “Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
Deuteronomy 12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.
Psalms 81:9 There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
Ezekiel 11:20 so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 37:24 My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.
Deuteronomy 5:6 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Deuteronomy 7:4 because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.