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Ezekiel 20

Ezek. 20:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
o rebelled
marah (Hebrew #4784)
to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
KJV usage: bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).
Pronounce: maw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
against me in the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
: they walked
halak (Hebrew #1980)
a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, + be eased, enter, exercise (self), + follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), + greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, X more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), + send, speedily, spread, still, surely, + tale-bearer, + travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-)faring man, X be weak, whirl.
Pronounce: haw-lak'
Origin: akin to 3212
not in my statutes
chuqqah (Hebrew #2708)
feminine of 2706, and meaning substantially the same
KJV usage: appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute.
Pronounce: khook-kaw'
, and they despised
ma'ac (Hebrew #3988)
to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear
KJV usage: abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, X utterly, vile person.
Pronounce: maw-as'
Origin: a primitive root
my judgments
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
, which if a man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
do
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
, he shall even live
chayay (Hebrew #2425)
to live; causatively to revive
KJV usage: live, save life.
Pronounce: khaw-yah'-ee
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2421)
in them; and myr sabbaths
shabbath (Hebrew #7676)
intermission, i.e (specifically) the Sabbath
KJV usage: (+ every) sabbath.
Pronounce: shab-bawth'
Origin: intensive from 7673
they greatly
m`od (Hebrew #3966)
properly, vehemence, i.e. (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; especially when repeated)
KJV usage: diligently, especially, exceeding(-ly), far, fast, good, great(-ly), X louder and louder, might(-ily, -y), (so) much, quickly, (so) sore, utterly, very (+ much, sore), well.
Pronounce: meh-ode'
Origin: from the same as 181
polluted
chalal (Hebrew #2490)
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an "opening wedge"); denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute)
KJV usage: begin (X men began), defile, X break, defile, X eat (as common things), X first, X gather the grape thereof, X take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Pronounce: khaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2470)
: then I said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, I would pour out
shaphak (Hebrew #8210)
to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc.); intensively, to sprawl out
KJV usage: cast (up), gush out, pour (out), shed(-der, out), slip.
Pronounce: shaw-fak'
Origin: a primitive root
my fury
chemah (Hebrew #2534)
from 3179; heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)
KJV usage: anger, bottles, hot displeasure, furious(-ly, -ry), heat, indignation, poison, rage, wrath(- ful). See 2529.
Pronounce: khay-maw'
Origin: or (Dan. 11:44) chemaC {khay-maw'}
upon them in the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
s, to consume
kalah (Hebrew #3615)
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when ... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Pronounce: kaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
them.
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Isa. 63:10• 10But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them. (Isa. 63:10)
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Neh. 13:18• 18Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath. (Neh. 13:18)
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Num. 26:65• 65For Jehovah had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. (Num. 26:65)

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rebelled.
Ezek. 20:8• 8But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. (Ezek. 20:8)
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Ex. 16:28• 28And Jehovah said to Moses, How long do ye refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? (Ex. 16:28)
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Ex. 32:8• 8They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them: they have made themselves a molten calf, and have bowed down to it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, This is thy god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt! (Ex. 32:8)
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Num. 14:22• 22for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice, (Num. 14:22)
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Deut. 9:12‑24• 12And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, go down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them: they have made for themselves a molten image.
 13And Jehovah spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
 14Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
 15And I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
 16And I saw, and behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah your God: ye had made for yourselves a molten calf; ye had quickly turned aside from the way which Jehovah had commanded you.
 17And I seized the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
 18And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights, —I ate no bread and drank no water, —because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing what is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
 19For I was afraid of the anger and fury wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. And Jehovah listened unto me also at that time.
 20And with Aaron Jehovah was very angry to destroy him; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
 21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small, until it became fine dust; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that flowed down from the mountain.
 22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.
 23And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you, ye rebelled against the word of Jehovah your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
 24Ye have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you. (Deut. 9:12‑24)
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Deut. 31:27• 27for I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck. Lo, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death! (Deut. 31:27)
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1 Sam. 8:8• 8According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee. (1 Sam. 8:8)
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Neh. 9:16‑18• 16But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
 17and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not.
 18Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt! and they had wrought great provocation, (Neh. 9:16‑18)
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Psa. 78:40‑41• 40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness{HR}And grieve him in the desert!
 41And they turned again and tempted God ,{HR}And limited the Holy One of Israel. (Psa. 78:40‑41)
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Psa. 95:8‑11• 8Harden not your heart like Meribah,{HR}Like the day of Massah in the wilderness;
 9When your fathers tempted me,{HR}Proved me, and saw my work.
 10Forty years long was I disgusted with the generation and said,{HR}A people erring in heart [are] they,{HR}And they have not known my ways,
 11To whom I swore in mine anger{HR}That they shall not come into my rest. (Psa. 95:8‑11)
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Psa. 106:13‑33• 13They hasted, they forgot his works,{HR}They waited not for his counsel;
 14And lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,{HR}And tempted God in the desert.
 15And he gave them their request,{HR}And sent leanness into their soul.
 16And they were envious of Moses in the camp,{HR}Of Aaron, saint of Jehovah.
 17Earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,{HR}And covered Abiram's company.
 18And a fire burned in their company,{HR}A flame consumed wicked ones.
 19They made a calf in Horeb{HR}And bowed down to a molten image;
 20And changed their glory{HR}For the likeness of an ox eating grass.
 21They forgot God their Saviour{HR}That did great things in Egypt,
 22Wondrous works in Ham's land,{HR}Terrible things at the Red Sea.
 23And he said he would destroy them,{HR}Had not Moses stood in the breach before him,{HR}To turn away his wrath from destroying.
 24And they despised the pleasant land,{HR}They believed not his word;
 25But they murmured in their tents;{HR}They did not hearken to Jehovah's voice.
 26And he lifted up his hand to them,{HR}To make them fall in the wilderness,
 27And to make their seed fall among the nations,{HR}And to scatter them in the lands.
 28And they joined themselves to Baal-Peor{HR}And ate sacrifices of dead (beings).
 29And they provoked him by their actions,{HR}And the plague broke out among them.
 30Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment,{HR}And the plague was stayed.
 31And it was reckoned to him for righteousness{HR}To generation and generation for evermore.
 32And they angered him at the waters of Meribah,{HR}And it went ill with Moses on their account,
 33For they provoked his spirit,{HR}And he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. (Psa. 106:13‑33)
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Isa. 63:10• 10But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them. (Isa. 63:10)
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Ezek. 20:16,24• 16because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
 24because they performed not mine ordinances, and rejected my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. (Ezek. 20:16,24)
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Lev. 26:15,43• 15and if ye shall despise my statutes, and if your soul shall abhor mine ordinances, so that ye do not all my commandments, that ye break my covenant,
 43For the land shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its Sabbaths, when it is in desolation without them; and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because, they despised my judgments, and their soul despised my statutes. (Lev. 26:15,43)
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2 Sam. 12:9• 9Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of Jehovah, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. (2 Sam. 12:9)
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Prov. 1:25• 25And ye have rejected all my counsel,{HR}And would none of my reproof: (Prov. 1:25)
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Prov. 13:13• 13Whoso despiseth the word destroyeth himself;{HR}But he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. (Prov. 13:13)
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Amos 2:4• 4Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn back; because they have despised the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes; and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers walked. (Amos 2:4)
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1 Thess. 4:8• 8Wherefore then he that disregardeth disregardeth not man but God that [also] gave his Holy Spirit unto you. (1 Thess. 4:8)
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Heb. 10:28‑29• 28Anyone if he set at nought Moses' law dieth apart from mercy on two or three witnesses:
 29of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy that trod down the Son of God, and counted common the blood of the covenant whereby he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace? (Heb. 10:28‑29)
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Ezek. 20:11• 11And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. (Ezek. 20:11)
and my.
Ezek. 20:21• 21Notwithstanding 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. (Ezek. 20:21)
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Ex. 16:27‑28• 27And it came to pass on the seventh day that there went out some from the people to gather it, and they found none.
 28And Jehovah said to Moses, How long do ye refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? (Ex. 16:27‑28)
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Num. 15:31‑36• 31For he hath despised the word of Jehovah, and hath broken his commandment: that soul shall surely be cut off; his iniquity is upon him.
 32And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the seventh day.
 33And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
 34And they put him in custody, for it was not declared what should be done to him.
 35And Jehovah said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
 36And the whole assembly led him outside the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died, as Jehovah had commanded Moses. (Num. 15:31‑36)
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Isa. 56:6• 6Also the sons of the stranger that join themselves to Jehovah, to minister unto him and to love the name of Jehovah, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the Sabbath from profaning it, and holdeth fast by my covenant— (Isa. 56:6)
I said.
Ezek. 20:8,21• 8But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
 21Notwithstanding 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. (Ezek. 20:8,21)
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Ex. 32:10• 10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation. (Ex. 32:10)
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Num. 14:11‑12,29• 11And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe me, for all the signs which I have done among them?
 12I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
 29In this wilderness shall your carcasses fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, who have murmured against me, (Num. 14:11‑12,29)
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Num. 16:20‑21,45• 20And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
 21Separate yourselves from the midst of this assembly, and I will consume them in a moment.
 45Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces. (Num. 16:20‑21,45)
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Num. 26:25• 25These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred. (Num. 26:25)
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Deut. 9:8• 8And at Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you, to destroy you, (Deut. 9:8)
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Psa. 106:23• 23And he said he would destroy them,{HR}Had not Moses stood in the breach before him,{HR}To turn away his wrath from destroying. (Psa. 106:23)
• When out of Egypt, Israel was no better than when in it, yea, their evil became more evident and less excusable. For they were in the solitudes of the wilderness with Jehovah, yet they sought false gods. (“Notes on Ezekiel 20:1-44” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned: and I said I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

W. Kelly Translation

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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.