John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 20:21

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me, &c.] After the death of their fathers, when they were come into the plains of Moab, and just going to enter the land; they rebelled against the Lord, and greatly provoked him, by joining themselves to Baalpeor, the idol of Moab, they worshipped, (<042503>Numbers 25:3); they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them; they did as their fathers before them; though they saw with their eyes the judgments of God upon them, yet this did not deter them from following their evil ways: which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them; (see Gill on “<262013>Ezekiel 20:13”); they polluted my sabbaths; just as their fathers had done, taking no warning by them, and what befell them: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish mine anger against them in the wilderness; twenty and four thousand died on account of the idolatry of Baalpeor, (<042509>Numbers 25:9).

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