Ezekiel 20:21

But their sons and daughters rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes or keep my decrees, by which a man might live if he obeys them. They profaned my Sabbaths, so I determined to pour out my fury upon them to satisfy my wrath against them in the wilderness.

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In The King James Version

Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

In Context

20Keep my Sabbaths holy so that they will be a sign between me and you, so that you will know that I am Yahweh your God.”

22But I turned my hand away and acted for my name's sake, so it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought out the Israelites.

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Cross References

Numbers 25:1Israel stayed in Shittim, and the men began to prostitute themselves with women of Moab,

Deuteronomy 31:27For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck; look, while I am still alive with you even today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; how much more after my death?

2 Chronicles 34:25This will happen because they have forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods, and they have provoked me to anger by all that their hands have made, therefore, my anger will be poured out on this place, and it will not be extinguished.' + 34:25 Instead of will be poured out on this place , some versions have, will be kindled against this place .

Psalms 106:29They provoked him to anger with their actions, 1 and a plague broke out among them. 1

Lamentations 4:11Yahweh showed all his wrath; he poured out his fierce anger. 1 He kindled a fire in Zion that consumed her foundations. 1

Ezekiel 13:15For I will annihilate in my fury the wall and those who whitewashed it. I will say to you, “The wall exists no more, nor do the people who whitewashed it—

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 20:11-27

The Privileges and Sins of Israel. ( b. c. 592.) 10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. 11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. 12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my… Read the whole commentary →

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