Ezekiel 20:23-26

23Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries,

24because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes lusted after their parents’ idols.

25So I gave them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live;

26I defiled them through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the Lord.’