Discovery BoxEzekiel 20:17-18 
Context20:17 Yet I had pity on 1 them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.
20:18 “‘But I said to their children 2 in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, 3 nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 20:23
Context20:23 I also swore 4 to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands. 5
Ezekiel 20:35
Context20:35 I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
1 tn Heb “my eye pitied.”
2 tn Heb “sons,” reflecting the patriarchal idiom of the culture.
3 tn Or “standard of justice.” See Ezek 7:27.
4 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
5 sn Though the Pentateuch does not seem to know of this episode, Ps 106:26-27 may speak of God’s oath to exile the people before they had entered Canaan.
