Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 20:15

"Moreover also I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;" — Ezekiel 20:15 (ASV)

I would not bring them into the land. —Numbers 14:28–29. In consequence of their rebellion and lack of faith, all the men above twenty years old when they came out of Egypt were doomed by the Divine oath to perish in the wilderness. Yet He did not utterly take His mercy from them, but promised that their children should be brought into the land, as is stated in Ezekiel 20:17.