Ezekiel 20:13

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Summary

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Rebelled

And they

Which

Ezekiel 20:11

And my

I said

Psalm 106:23

General references

Bible References

Rebelled

They defied me and refused to listen. They did not throw away their disgusting idols or give up the Egyptian gods. I was ready to let them feel the full force of my anger there in Egypt.

Jehovah spoke to Moses: How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my instructions?

They have already turned from the way I commanded them to live. They made a statue of a calf for themselves. They have bowed down to it and offered sacrifices to it. They said: Israel, here is your god who brought you out of Egypt.'

none of the people who saw my glory and the miraculous signs I did in Egypt and in the desert will see the land I promised their ancestors. They have tested me now ten times and refused to obey me.

Jehovah said to me: 'Go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them. They have made a cast-idol for themselves.'

I know how rebellious you are. You are impossible to deal with. While I am alive and still with you, you are rebelling against Jehovah. How much more rebellious will you be after I die?

Ever since the day I rescued my people from Egypt, they have turned from me to worship idols. Now they are turning away from you.

But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and paid no attention to your orders.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness! How often they caused him grief in the desert!

Do not harden your hearts, as in the day of strife, as in the day of testing in the wilderness.

They quickly forgot his works and they did not wait for his counsel.

But they rebelled and grieved (offended and hurt) his Holy Spirit. So he turned against them as their enemy. He fought against them.

And they

They rejected my rules. They did not live by my laws. They dishonored the days to worship me, because their hearts chased disgusting idols.

if you reject my laws and look at my rules with disgust, if you reject my promise by disobeying my commandments,

Why have you disobeyed my commands? Why did you do this evil thing? You had Uriah killed in battle! You let the Ammonites kill him. Then you took his wife!

You have ignored all my counsel. You accept no correction.

The one who despises the word will experience bad consequences (be destroyed). He who respects the commandment will be rewarded.

Jehovah continued: I will not withdraw punishment for the many transgressions of Judah. For they have rejected the Law of Jehovah! They have not kept his statutes. Their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.

He therefore that rejects this, rejects not man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to us.

He that despised Moses' Law died without mercy under two or three witnesses.

Which

I gave them my laws and made my rules known to them. If people obey them they will live.

And my

But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes. They were not careful to obey my ordinances. If a man obeys them, he will live. They profaned my Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

Some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather. They did not find any.

They have rejected what Jehovah said and have deliberately broken one of his commandments. They are responsible for their own death.

Foreigners have become allied with Jehovah, to serve Jehovah, to love the name of Jehovah, and to worship him. They keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and hold fast to my covenant.

I said

They defied me and refused to listen. They did not throw away their disgusting idols or give up the Egyptian gods. I was ready to let them feel the full force of my anger there in Egypt.

Now let me alone. Let my anger burn against them. I am so angry with them I am going to destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.

Jehovah said to Moses: How much longer will these people reject me? How much longer will they refuse to trust in me, even though I have performed many miracles among them?

Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron:

These were the families of Issachar. The total number of men was sixty-four thousand three hundred.

Even at Mount Horeb you made Jehovah so angry that he wanted to destroy you.

God said he was going to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, stood in his way to prevent him from exterminating them.

General references

Jehovah spoke to Moses: How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my instructions?

I will now condemn you just as I condemned your ancestors in the Sinai Desert,' says the Lord Jehovah.

You have despised my holy things and dishonored (profaned the Sabbath) the day to worship me.

The commandment, which was to life, this I found to be to death.