Ezekiel 20:1-9

1Now in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, men from the 1elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord, and they sat before me. 2Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 3“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord 2God says: “Do you yourselves come to inquire of Me? As I live,” declares the Lord God, “3I certainly will not be inquired of by you.”’ 4Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? 4Make known to them the abominations of their fathers; 5and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “On the day when I 5chose Israel and 6swore to the 7descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I 8swore to them, saying, 9I am the Lord your God, 6on that day I swore to them, 10to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had 11selected for them, 12flowing with milk and honey, which is 13the glory of all the lands. 7And I said to them, ‘14Throw away, each of you, the detestable things of his eyes, and 15do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; 16I am the Lord your God.’ 8But they 17rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; they did not throw away, each of them, the detestable things of their eyes, nor did they abandon the 18idols of Egypt.

“Then I 19resolved to 20pour out My wrath on them, to 21use up My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 9But I acted 22for the sake of My name, that it would 23not be defiled in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.