Ezekiel 20:23-26 NIV

[23] Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries, [24] because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes lusted after their parents’ idols. [25] So I gave them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live; [26] I 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.’