Ezekiel 19 & 20 – They were told almost a thousand years earlier what would happen to them. 2019

Ezek 20:22
"But I withdrew My hand and acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezek 20:23
"Also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them among the lands,

Ezek 20:24
because they had not observed My ordinances, but had rejected My statutes, and had profaned My sabbaths, and their eyes were on the idols of their fathers.

Elohim told them almost a thousand years earlier what would happen to them.

Lev 26:14-16 ‘But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments, 15if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, 16I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that shall waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you shall sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies shall eat it up.

Lev 31-33 ‘I will lay waste your cities as well, and will make your sanctuaries desolate; and I will not smell your soothing aromas. 32‘And I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled over it. 33‘You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.
In chapter 19, Elohim is going to lament over Israel and Judah. He does not enjoy punishing man for his sins, but He must do it.

Chapters 20-24 contain the final predictions concerning the judgment of Jerusalem. Elohim called them to repent, but they would not. Therefore, Elohim had to judge them. He is going to recount some of their history of rebellion against Him.