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Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live;
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Not God's Law
Scholars are unanimous that the 'statutes that were not good' are not the Mosaic Law. God's own law is described as good and life-giving. Instead, commentators identify these 'statutes' as the idolatrous and pagan practices Israel chose to adopt. This verse describes the destructive nature of false worship, not a flaw in God's commands.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The probation in the wilderness. The promise was forfeited by those to whom it was first conditionally made, but was renewed to their children.
19th Century
Anglican
Statutes that were not good. — In this verse, the general statement is made, of which a particular instance is given in the next. …
16th Century
Protestant
Here God announces that He had taken vengeance on such hard and obstinate people by permitting them to endure another yoke, since they would not be…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good Yea, were very bad; not the moral law, and the statutes of …
