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

Statutes that were not good. — In this verse, the general statement is made, of which a particular instance is given in the next. …

Here God announces that He had taken vengeance on such hard and obstinate people by permitting them to endure another yoke, since they would not be…

Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good
Yea, were very bad; not the moral law, and the statutes of …