Ezekiel 20:18-20

18“And I said to atheir children in the wilderness, 'Do not walk bin the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, cnor defile yourselves with their idols. 19 dI am the Lord your God; ewalk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules, 20and fkeep my Sabbaths holy that gthey may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.'

Ezekiel 20:24

24because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, hand their eyes were set on their fathersidols.

Ezekiel 20:30

30Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: iWill you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and go jwhoring after their detestable things?

Zechariah 1:3-6

3Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: kReturn to me, says the Lord of hosts, and lI will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. 4 mDo not be like your fathers, nto whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, oReturn from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But pthey did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. 5Your fathers, where are they? And qthe prophets, do they live forever? 6 rBut my words and my statutes, which I commanded smy servants the prophets, did they not tovertake your fathers? So they repented and said, u‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for vour ways and wdeeds, so has he dealt with us.’”

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