Ezekiel 20:16

God's Dealings With Israel For His Name's Sake

¹⁵ Moreover also I sware 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; ¹⁶ because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols. ¹⁷ Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

Despised and Rejected

Profaned My Sabbaths

Sabbath Day

Walk in My Statutes

Desecrated My Sabbaths

Polluted My Sabbaths

No

Numbers 15:39

and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that ye follow not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot;

Ezekiel 14:3-4

Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

Ezekiel 20:8

But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me; they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 32:1-8

And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.

Numbers 25:2

for they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

Ezekiel 20:13-14

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Ezekiel 23:8

Neither hath she left her whoredoms since the days of Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her.

Amos 5:25-26

Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

Acts 7:39-43

to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,