Ezekiel 20:23
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Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the wilderness, to disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries:

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Ezekiel 20:15 So I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, not to bring them into the land which I had given them flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands.

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

Revelation 10:5,6 And the angel whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven. . . .

that I.

Leviticus 26:33 And I will scatter you among the Gentiles: and I will draw out the sword after you. And your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:64-68 The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:26,27 I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men. . . .

Psalm 106:27 And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries.

Jeremiah 15:4 And I will give them up to the rage of all the kingdoms of the earth: because of Manasses the son of Ezechias the king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.

Context
Israel's Rebellion in the Wilderness
22But I turned away my hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, out of which I brought them forth in their sight. 23Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the wilderness, to disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries:24Because they had not done my judgments, and had cast off my statutes, and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the idols of their fathers.…
Cross References
Leviticus 26:33
And I will scatter you among the Gentiles: and I will draw out the sword after you. And your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:27
And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.

Deuteronomy 28:64
The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone.

Psalm 44:11
Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves.

Ezekiel 22:15
And I will disperse thee in the nations, and will scatter thee among the countries, and I will put an end to thy uncleanness in thee.

Ezekiel 44:12
Because they ministered to them before their idols, and were a stumblingblock of iniquity to the house of Israel: therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity:

Lexicon
However,
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

with an uplifted hand I swore
נָשָׂ֧אתִי (nā·śā·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5375: To lift, carry, take

to them
לָהֶ֖ם (lā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

in the wilderness
בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר (bam·miḏ·bār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech

that I would scatter
לְהָפִ֤יץ (lə·hā·p̄îṣ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 6327: To be dispersed or scattered

them
אֹתָם֙ (’ō·ṯām)
Direct object marker | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

among the nations
בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם (bag·gō·w·yim)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

and disperse
וּלְזָר֥וֹת (ū·lə·zā·rō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 2219: To toss about, to diffuse, winnow

them
אוֹתָ֖ם (’ō·w·ṯām)
Direct object marker | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

throughout the lands.
בָּאֲרָצֽוֹת׃ (bā·’ă·rā·ṣō·wṯ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land


Additional Translations
However, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.I lifted up my hand to them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

Moreover I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, and disperse them in the countries;

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

Moreover I lifted up mine hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries,

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

Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

I also, I have lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, To scatter them among nations, And to spread them through lands.
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