Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
I gave them . . . statutes . . . not good—Since they would not follow My statutes that were good, "I gave them" their own (Ezekiel 20:18) and their fathers' "which were not good"; statutes spiritually corrupting, and, finally, as the consequence, destroying them. Righteous retribution (Psalms 81:12; Hosea 8:11; Romans 1:24; II Thessalonians 2:11). Ezekiel 20:39 proves this view to be correct (compare Isaiah 63:17). Thus on the plains of Moab (Num. 25:1-18), in chastisement for the secret unfaithfulness to God in their hearts, He permitted Baal's worshippers to tempt them to idolatry (the ready success of the tempters, moreover, proving the inward unsoundness of the tempted); and this again ended necessarily in punitive judgments.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezekiel 20:25:
Deuteronomy 2:16
Ezekiel 20:26
Micah 7:11
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