And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.(Ezekiel 20:20)

Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.(Ezekiel 20:21)

Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.(Ezekiel 20:22)

I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.(Ezekiel 20:24)

Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;(Ezekiel 20:25)

And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.(Ezekiel 20:26)

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Ezekiel 20:23 - Cross Reference

For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. (Deuteronomy 32:40)

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: (Deuteronomy 32:26)

To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. (Psalm 106:27)

And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. (Deuteronomy 28:64)

And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. (Jeremiah 15:4)

And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, (Revelation 10:5)

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. (Leviticus 26:33)

Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; (Ezekiel 20:15)