Ezekiel 20:17 Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or put an end to them in the wilderness.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or put an end to them in the wilderness.

English Standard Version
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
"Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not cause their annihilation in the wilderness.

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

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

International Standard Version
Even then, I looked on them with compassion and didn't completely destroy 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.

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.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:27
For thus has the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

Jeremiah 5:18
Nevertheless in those days, said the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.

Ezekiel 11:13
And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

Ezekiel 20:22
Nevertheless 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.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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).