Ezekiel 20:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The house of Israel; not a few, this I might have borne in silence, but most of them; they were, as we are, a rebellious house. Rebelled against me; provoked me bitterly to indignation by their contumacies, and that frequently, as Exodus 17:7 Numbers 20:24 Deuteronomy 1:26,43; a stubborn and rebellious generation, Psalms 78:8, with Ezekiel 20:40. In the wilderness; 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 required their obedience and dependence. Walked not in my statutes; made not them the only rule of their religion, and exercise of it, as they should have done, but framed religion to their own or their neighbours idolatrous inclinations. Despised my judgments; slighted first, as of little excellency, refused next, and cast off with disdain and loathing. Which, the equitable and necessary rules for government of their civil affairs, which were framed to the safety and welfare of a people, if a man do, he shall even live in them: see Ezekiel 20:11. Polluted; profained with working what was prohibited, misemploying those days on idols, or on any common ordinary business, as Exodus 16:27 Numbers 15:32 Jeremiah 17:22,23. Then I said: see Ezekiel 20:8. To consume them; to cut them off from being a people, as Numbers 16:21.