Ezekiel 20:13
Good News Translation
But even in the desert they defied me. They broke my laws and rejected my commands, which bring life to anyone who obeys them. They completely profaned the Sabbath. I was ready to let them feel the force of my anger there in the desert and to destroy them.

New Revised Standard Version
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not observe my statutes but rejected my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make an end of them.

Contemporary English Version
But the Israelites rebelled against me in the desert. They refused to obey my laws and teachings, and they treated the Sabbath like any other day. Then in my anger, I decided to destroy the Israelites in the desert once and for all.

New American Bible
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not observe my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances that bring life to those who keep them. My sabbaths, too, they desecrated grievously. Then I considered pouring out my fury on them in the wilderness to put an end to them,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them.

rebelled

Ezekiel 20:8 But they provoked me, and would not hearken to me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: and I said I would pour out my indignation upon them, and accomplish my wrath against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 16:28 And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?

Exodus 32:8 They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew them: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored it, and sacrificing victims to it, have said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Numbers 14:22 But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

Deuteronomy 9:12-24 And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for thy people, which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have quickly forsaken the way that thou hast shewn them, and have made to themselves a molten idol. . . .

Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck. While I am yet living, and going in with you, you have always been rebellious against the Lord: how much more when I shall be dead?

1 Samuel 8:8 According to all their works, they have done from the day that I brought them out of Egypt until this day: as they have forsaken me, and served strange gods, so do they also unto thee.

Nehemiah 9:16-18 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments. . . .

Psalm 78:40,41 How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water? . . .

Psalm 95:8-11 To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts: . . .

Psalm 106:13-33 They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsel. . . .

Isaiah 63:10 But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

and they

Ezekiel 20:16,24 Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols. . . .

Leviticus 26:15,43 If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant: . . .

2 Samuel 12:9 Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Proverbs 1:25 I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.

Proverbs 13:13 Whosoever speaketh ill of any thing, bindeth himself for the time to come: but he that feareth the commandment, shall dwell in peace. Deceitful souls go astray in sins: the just are merciful, and shew mercy.

Amos 2:4 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and hath not kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked.

1 Thessalonians 4:8 Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but God, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us.

Hebrews 10:28,29 A man making void the law of Moses dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses: . . .

which

Ezekiel 20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

and my

Ezekiel 20:8,21 But they provoked me, and would not hearken to me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: and I said I would pour out my indignation upon them, and accomplish my wrath against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. . . .

Exodus 16:27,28 And the seventh day came; and some of the people going forth to gather, found none. . . .

Numbers 15:31-36 For he hath contemned the word of the Lord, and made void his precept: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity. . . .

Isaiah 56:6 And the children of the stranger that adhere to the Lord, to worship him, and to love his name, to be his servants: every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and that holdeth fast my covenant:

I said

Ezekiel 20:8,21 But they provoked me, and would not hearken to me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: and I said I would pour out my indignation upon them, and accomplish my wrath against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. . . .

Exodus 32:10 Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation.

Numbers 14:11,12,29 And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought before them? . . .

Numbers 16:20,21,45 And the Lord speaking to Moses and Aaron, said: . . .

Numbers 26:25 These are the kindreds of Issachar, whose number was sixty-four thousand three hundred.

Deuteronomy 9:8 For in Horeb, also thou didst provoke him, and he was angry, and would have destroyed thee,

Psalm 106:23 And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Context
Israel's Rebellion in Egypt
12Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them: and that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them. 13But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them.14But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should be profaned before the nations, from which I brought them out, in their sight.…
Cross References
Romans 10:5
For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it.

Exodus 32:10
Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation.

Leviticus 18:5
Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.

Numbers 14:11
And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought before them?

Numbers 14:12
I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.

Deuteronomy 9:8
For in Horeb, also thou didst provoke him, and he was angry, and would have destroyed thee,

2 Chronicles 30:7
Be not like your fathers, and brethren, who departed from the Lord the God of their fathers, and he hath given them up to destruction, as you see.

Psalm 106:23
And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Isaiah 56:6
And the children of the stranger that adhere to the Lord, to worship him, and to love his name, to be his servants: every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and that holdeth fast my covenant:

Jeremiah 7:24
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear: but walked in their own will, and in the perversity of their wicked heart: and went backward and not forward,

Ezekiel 20:8
But they provoked me, and would not hearken to me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: and I said I would pour out my indignation upon them, and accomplish my wrath against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:11
And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

Ezekiel 20:14
But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should be profaned before the nations, from which I brought them out, in their sight.

Ezekiel 20:21
But their children provoked me, they walked not in my commandments, nor observed my judgments to do them: which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they violated my sabbaths: and I threatened to pour out my indignation upon them, and to accomplish my wrath in them in the desert.

Ezekiel 20:36
As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt; even so will I judge you, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:8
Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my sabbaths.

Ezekiel 23:38
Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.

Ezekiel 20:12
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