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

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 I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be
polluted before the Heathen (See Gill on Ezekiel 20:9