Ezekiel 20:17
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New International Version (©2011)
Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or put an end to them in the wilderness.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Nevertheless, I took pity on them and held back from destroying them in the wilderness.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Nevertheless, my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make a full end of them in the wilderness.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not cause their annihilation in the wilderness.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Even then, I looked on them with compassion and didn't completely destroy them in the wilderness.

NET Bible (©2006)
Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But I had compassion on them. I didn't destroy them or completely wipe them out in the desert.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

American King James Version
Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

American Standard Version
Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.

Darby Bible Translation
But mine eye spared them so as not to destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

English Revised Version
Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

Webster's Bible Translation
Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

World English Bible
Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

Young's Literal Translation
And Mine eye hath pity on them -- against destroying them, And I have not made of them an end in the wilderness.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

20:10-26. The history of Israel in the wilderness is referred to in the new Testament as well as in the Old, for warning. God did great things for them. He gave them the law, and revived the ancient keeping of the sabbath day. Sabbaths are privileges; they are signs of our being his people. If we do the duty of the day, we shall find, to our comfort, it is the Lord that makes us holy, that is, truly happy, here; and prepares us to be happy, that is, perfectly holy, hereafter. The Israelites rebelled, and were left to the judgments they brought upon themselves. God sometimes makes sin to be its own punishment, yet he is not the Author of sin: there needs no more to make men miserable, than to give them up to their own evil desires and passions.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Nevertheless, mine eye spared them from destroying them,.... Utterly, so as to leave neither root nor branch; for though the whole generation died excepting two, either by the immediate hand of God in wrath, or else by ordinary deaths; yet there was a generation raised up in their stead, to whom mercy was shown:

neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness; that they should be no more a nation and people; though the carcasses of them that believed not fell in the wilderness, and never saw the good land, yet their posterity was spared to see it, and did.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

17. Nevertheless—How marvellous that God should spare such sinners! His everlasting covenant explains it, His long-suffering standing out in striking contrast to their rebellions (Ps 78:38; Jer 30:11).

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Rebellion in Egypt
…16Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols. 17Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness. 18But I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk you not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

Jeremiah 4:27 This is what the LORD says: "The whole land will be ruined, though I will not destroy it completely.
Jeremiah 5:18 "Yet even in those days," declares the LORD, "I will not destroy you completely.
Ezekiel 11:13 Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, "Alas, Sovereign LORD! Will you completely destroy the remnant of Israel?"
Ezekiel 20:22 But I withheld my hand, and for the sake of my name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.