EZEKIEL 20:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
God declared He would pour out His wrath upon Israel in the wilderness to make an end of them, but instead acted for the sake of His name's sake among the nations who witnessed the exodus. The threatened annihilation represents God's just response to Israel's rebellion, yet is forestalled by God's concern for His own honor. The cycle of rebellion, threatened judgment, and forbearance begins to establish.
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