Ezekiel 20:23
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New International Version (©2011)
Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries,

New Living Translation (©2007)
But I took a solemn oath against them in the wilderness. I swore I would scatter them among all the nations

English Standard Version (©2001)
Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them among the lands,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
However, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Futhermore, I solemnly swore in the wilderness to disperse them among the nations and scatter them to other lands

NET Bible (©2006)
I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I raised my hand and swore an oath to them in the desert. I promised to scatter them among the nations and force them into other countries.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
I lifted up my hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

American King James Version
I lifted up my hand to them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

American Standard Version
Moreover I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the wilderness, to disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries :

Darby Bible Translation
I lifted up my hand also unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

English Revised Version
Moreover I lifted up mine hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries,

Webster's Bible Translation
I lifted up my hand to them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

World English Bible
Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

Young's Literal Translation
I also, I have lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, To scatter them among nations, And to spread them through lands.

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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 23. - That I would scatter them among the heathen. The words seem to refer to the generation that had grown up in the wilderness, and, so taken, do not correspond with the history of the conquest of Canaan. What Ezekiel contemplates, however, as the resolve of Jehovah, is the commutation of the sentence of destruction for that of the dispersion of the people, leaving the time and manner of that dispersion to be determined by his own will. Possibly even in the time of the judges, with its many conquests and long periods of oppression, there were instances of such dispersion, and these, with others that would naturally accompany an invasion like that of Shishak (2 Chronicles 12:2-9), not to speak of frequent attacks from Moabites, Ammonites, Philistines, Edomites, and Syrians, may have seemed to the prophet the working out, step by step, of the dispersion which culminated in the deportation of the ten tribes by Shalmaneser, and of Judah and Benjamin by Nebuchadnezzar. Traces of such dispersions before Ezekiel's time meet us in Psalm 78:59-64; Isaiah 11:11, 12; Zephaniah 3:10, 20.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I lifted up mine hand also to them in the wilderness,.... Swore unto them, as in Ezekiel 20:5;

that I would scatter them among the Heathen, and disperse them through the countries; after they came to be settled in the land of Canaan, they sinning against the Lord; which was fulfilled in the times of the Babylonish captivity, and in their destruction by the Romans; but was threatened and foretold while they were in the wilderness, Leviticus 26:33; with this compare Psalm 106:26.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

23. It was to that generation the threat of dispersion was proclaimed (De 28:64; compare Eze 29:4).

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Rebellion in the Desert
…22Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth. 23I lifted up my hand to them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; 24Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. …

Leviticus 26:33 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.
Deuteronomy 4:27 The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Deuteronomy 28:64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods--gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.
Psalm 44:11 You gave us up to be devoured like sheep and have scattered us among the nations.
Ezekiel 22:15 I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness.
Ezekiel 44:12 But because they served them in the presence of their idols and made the people of Israel fall into sin, therefore I have sworn with uplifted hand that they must bear the consequences of their sin, declares the Sovereign LORD.