Ezequiel 20:13

13 Mas se rebeló contra mí la Casa de Israel en el desierto; no anduvieron en mis ordenanzas, y desecharon mis derechos, los cuales el hombre que los hiciere, vivirá por ellos; y mis sábados profanaron en gran manera; dije, por tanto, que había de derramar sobre ellos mi ira en el desierto para consumirlos

Ezequiel 20:13 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 20:13

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness,
&c.] Where they were wholly at the mercy of God, entirely dependent upon him; and miracles were wrought every day for the sustaining and preservation of, them from famine, wild beasts, and enemies; yet they rebelled against the Lord; provoked him bitterly by their manifold transgressions, their ingratitude, unbelief, and idolatry; and this not a few of them only, but the whole body of the people, the house of Israel, the whole family, and that for the space of forty years, ( Psalms 95:9 Psalms 95:10 ) ; they walked not in my statutes;
did not make them the rule of their walk and conversation, and steer the course of their lives and actions by them, as they ought to have done: and they despised my judgments;
as not worthy their notice and regard, as useless and unprofitable; nay, had an aversion to them, and a loathing of them, as the word ^F8 signifies; such is the corrupt and wicked heart of man; it is enmity against God and his law, and all that is good: which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them;
(See Gill on Ezekiel 20:11); and my sabbaths they greatly polluted;
or "profaned", or "[made them] common" ^F9; that is, with other days; by going out for manna on them; by gathering sticks upon them; by doing their own work, speaking their own words, and seeking their own pleasure, and worshipping false deities: then I said, I would pour out, my fury upon them in the wilderness to
consume them;
that they should not enter into the land of Canaan; as the generation that came out of Egypt were consumed in the wilderness, excepting two; as the Lord threatened, ( Numbers 14:35 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 (woam) "abjeoerunt", Pagninus; "reprobaverunt", Montanus.
F9 (wllx) "prophanarunt", Vatablus, Piscator, Cocceius.

Ezequiel 20:13 In-Context

11 y les di mis ordenanzas, y les declaré mis derechos, los cuales el hombre que los hiciere, vivirá por ellos

12 Y les di también mis sábados que fueran por señal entre mí y ellos, para que supieran que yo soy el SEÑOR que los santifico

13 Mas se rebeló contra mí la Casa de Israel en el desierto; no anduvieron en mis ordenanzas, y desecharon mis derechos, los cuales el hombre que los hiciere, vivirá por ellos; y mis sábados profanaron en gran manera; dije, por tanto, que había de derramar sobre ellos mi ira en el desierto para consumirlos

14 Pero obré a causa de mi Nombre para que no se infamare a la vista de los gentiles, delante de cuyos ojos los saqué

15 Y también yo les alcé mi mano en el desierto, y juré, que no los metería en la tierra que les di, que fluye leche y miel, la cual es la más hermosa de todas las tierras