Cross references

Ezekiel 20:9

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:9 BSB

Ezekiel 20:9 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ezekiel 39:7 (6 votes) and Ezekiel 20:22 (5 votes). 49 other verses point back to it. It links with 22 other books, from Exodus 6 to Acts 7.

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Which verses does Ezekiel 20:9 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. So I will make My holy name known among My people Israel and will no longer allow it to be profaned. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

  2. But I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

  3. Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.

  4. But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

  5. But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they had gone. Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.

  6. Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’

  7. I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind, if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”

  8. “Your servants have come from a very distant land,” they replied, “because of the fame of the LORD your God. For we have heard the reports about Him: all that He did in Egypt, and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan—Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth.

  9. Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

  10. Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.

  11. Joshua 7:92 votes

Which verses point to Ezekiel 20:9?

The 10 strongest of 49.