The probation in the wilderness. The promise was forfeited by those to whom it was first conditionally made, but was renewed to their children.

Rebelled against me. —See Exodus 32:1-6; Numbers 14:1–4; Numbers 14:16; Numbers 25:1–3; …

Here God pronounces that the sons were like their fathers, and that the people, after their deliverance from Egypt, were so obstinate in their wick…

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness, &c.] Where they were wholly at the mercy of God, entirely …