Ezekiel 20:22

“Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, &c.] When it was stretched out against them, as in the above instance, and did not utterly consume them. The Targum is, “and I turned away the stroke of my might:” and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth. (See Gill on “<262009>Ezekiel 20:9”) and (see Gill on “<262014>Ezekiel 20:14”).”

“The probation in the wilderness. The promise was forfeited by those to whom it was first conditionally made, but was renewed to their children. Ezekiel 20:11 The “statutes” were given on Mount Sinai, and repeated by Moses before his death (Exodus 20:1 ff; Deuteronomy 4:8). In them - Or, through them: and in Ezekiel 20:13. Ezekiel 20:12 See Exodus 31:13. The Sabbath was a sign of a special people, commemorative of the work of creation, and hallowed to the honor of Yahweh, the covenant-God. As man honored God by keeping the Sabbath holy, so by the Sabbath, God “sanctified” Israel and marked them as a holy people. Therefore to profane the Sabbath was to abjure their Divine Governor. Ezekiel…”

“I withdrew - God seems to take the posture of one that was just going to smite, yet draws back that he might spare. Ezekiel 20:23”

“I withdrew: Eze 20:17; Job 13:21; Psa 78:38; Lam 2:8 wrought: Eze 20:9, Eze 20:14, Eze 20:22; Psa 25:11, Psa 79:9, Psa 79:10, Psa 115:1; Isa 48:9-11; Jer 14:7, Jer 14:21; Dan 9:17, Dan 9:19 Ezekiel 20:23”