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.
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness - they "rebelled" in the very place where death and terror were on every side, and where they depended on my miraculous bounty every moment.