Verse Lens · Context pointer
Ezekiel 20:13 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 13. 13But 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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Role in This Section
The dated report or historical recital turns or qualifies the movement with “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness” at Ezekiel 20:13 inside “The Wilderness Generation Receives Sabbath and Statutes yet Rebels.”
Read It With
- Ezekiel 20:10–17
Read Ezekiel 20:13 with 20:10–17. By itself, “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, exilic horizon, visionary movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Exodus into the wilderness brings life-giving statutes and Sabbath signs, but rebellion leads to threatened scattering that mercy restrains.
Why It Needs Context
Ezekiel 20:13 performs a local role inside “The Wilderness Generation Receives Sabbath and Statutes yet Rebels.” The dated report or historical recital turns or qualifies the movement with “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness” at Ezekiel 20:13 inside “The Wilderness Generation Receives Sabbath and Statutes yet Rebels.” The selected verse alone does not carry the full claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Ezekiel 20:10–17 — The Wilderness Generation Receives Sabbath and Statutes yet RebelsSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Ezekiel 20:10–17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Ezekiel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ezek.xml, OSIS 20:10–17
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