John Gill Commentary Ezekiel 20:17

"Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness." — Ezekiel 20:17 (ASV)

Nevertheless, my eye spared them from destroying them utterly, so as to leave neither root nor branch; for though the whole generation died except two, either by the immediate hand of God in wrath, or else by ordinary deaths; yet there was a generation raised up in their stead, to whom mercy was shown.

Neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness, that they should be no more a nation and people; though the carcasses of them that believed not fell in the wilderness, and never saw the good land, yet their posterity was spared to see it, and did.