Ezequiel 20:13

13 »”Sin embargo, los israelitas se rebelaron contra mí y se negaron a obedecer mis decretos en el desierto. Desobedecieron mis ordenanzas, a pesar de que la obediencia les hubiera dado vida. Además profanaron mis días de descanso. Por lo tanto, amenacé con derramar mi furia sobre ellos e hice planes para consumirlos por completo en el desierto;

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 Allí les di mis decretos y ordenanzas para que al ponerlos en práctica encontraran vida.

12 Además, les di mis días de descanso como una señal entre ellos y yo. El propósito era recordarles que soy el Señor
, quien los apartó para que fueran santos.

13 »”Sin embargo, los israelitas se rebelaron contra mí y se negaron a obedecer mis decretos en el desierto. Desobedecieron mis ordenanzas, a pesar de que la obediencia les hubiera dado vida. Además profanaron mis días de descanso. Por lo tanto, amenacé con derramar mi furia sobre ellos e hice planes para consumirlos por completo en el desierto;

14 pero otra vez me contuve para proteger el honor de mi nombre ante las naciones que habían visto mi poder cuando saqué a Israel de Egipto.

15 Sin embargo, hice un juramento solemne contra ellos en el desierto. Juré que no los dejaría entrar en la tierra que les había dado, tierra donde fluyen la leche y la miel, el lugar más hermoso del mundo.