Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 20:13

13 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.

Not a few, this I might have born in silence, but most of them they were as we are, a rebellious house.

Provoked me bitterly to indignation by their contumacies, and that frequently, as Exod. 17.7. Numb. 20.24. Deut. 1.26, 43. a stubborn, and rebellious generation. Psal. 78.8. with ver. 40.

Where they most needed my care and favour, where the preserving their Life from destruction by the noxious Creatures, and from famine by the barrenness of the Wilderness was a continued miracle, which requir'd their obedience, and dependance.

Made not them the only Rule of their Religion, and exercise of it as they should have done, but fram'd Religion to their own, or their Neighbours Idolatrous inclinations.

Slighted first, as of little excellency, refus'd next, and cast off with disdain and loathing.

The equitable, and necessary rules for Government of their civil Affairs, which were framed to the safety and wellfare of a people.

See ver. 11. let. o.

Prophaned with working what was prohibited, misimploying those dayes on Idols, or on any common ordinary business as Exod. 16.27. Numb. 15.32. and Ier. 17.22, 23.

See ver. 8. let. t.

To cut them off from being a people, as Numb. 16.21.

Marginal references: Exod. [illegible: 1 span]; Num. 14.[illegible: 2 letters]. and 26.[illegible: 2 letters].