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

To their children. —The prophet comes now to the third part of his historical retrospect (Ezekiel 20:18–26)—the genera…

After God has shown that the obstinate wickedness of the people was such that they profited from neither harshness nor mercy, He now says that the …

But I said to their children in the wilderness

Or, "then I said" ^F11; his judgments and statutes being …