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.
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Gill's Exposition
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness,.... Where they were wholly at the mercy of God, entirely dependent upon him; and miracles were wrought every day for the sustaining and…
The probation in the wilderness. The promise was forfeited by those to whom it was first conditionally made, but was renewed to their children. Eze 20:11 The “statutes” were given on Mount Sinai, and…
Adam Clarke
But the house of Israel rebelled - They acted in the wilderness just as they had done in Egypt; and he spared them there for the same reason. See Eze 20:9.
The history of the struggle between the sins of Israel, by which they endeavoured to ruin themselves, and the mercies of God, by which he endeavoured to save them and make them happy, is here…
Cambridge Bible
Provocation of the people in the wilderness. They rejected the statutes of Jehovah and "polluted," better: profaned, his sabbaths, i.e. failed to dedicate and keep them to Jehovah. The profanation is…
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