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.
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Interpretation
The history of Israel in the wilderness is referred to in the new Testament as well as in the Old, for warning. God did great things for them.
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This thought runs through Ezekiel 20:12-16.