Ezekiel 20:17

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

Ezekiel 20:17 in Other Translations

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

17 Nevertheless, my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make a full end of them in the wilderness.

17 Nevertheless, I took pity on them and held back from destroying them in the wilderness.

17 But I didn't go all the way: I didn't wipe them out, didn't finish them off in the desert.

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

17 But I had compassion on them. I didn't destroy them or completely wipe them out in the desert.

17 But I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness.

17 " ' "Then I felt sorry for them. So I did not destroy them. I did not put an end to them in the desert.

Ezekiel 20:17 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 20:17

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.

Ezekiel 20:17 In-Context

15 Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands—

16 because they rejected my laws and did not follow my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths. For their hearts were devoted to their idols.

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

18 I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the statutes of your parents or keep their laws or defile yourselves with their idols.

19 I am the LORD your God; follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

Cross References

• 1. S Jeremiah 4:27