Eze 20:25-26, Amo 5:25, 27, Act 7:42-43 | ESV | STEP | Moreover , I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life ,

g[See ver. 14 above]

j Deut. 4:19; 2 Kgs. 17:16; 21:3; 23:5; Jer. 19:13; Zeph. 1:5

Ezekiel 20:25-26

25 ^aMoreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life, 26 and I defiled them through ^btheir very gifts ^cin their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it ^dthat they might know that I am the Lord.

Amos 5:25

25 ^e“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Amos 5:27

27 ^fand I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is ^gthe God of hosts.

Acts 7:42-43

42 But ^hGod turned away and ⁱgave them over to worship ^jthe host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

^k“‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices,
^lduring the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
43 You took up the tent of ^mMoloch
and the star of your god Rephan,
the images that you made to worship;
and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’