Ezekiel 20:21

“Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me, &c.] After the death of their fathers, when they were come into the plains of Moab, and just going to enter the land; they rebelled against the Lord, and greatly provoked him, by joining themselves to Baalpeor, the idol of Moab, they worshipped, (<042503>Numbers 25:3); they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them; they did as their fathers before them; though they saw with their eyes the judgments of God upon them, yet this did not deter them from following their evil ways: which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them; (see Gill on “<262013>Ezekiel 20:13”); they polluted my sabbaths; just as their fathers had done,…”

“Though warned by the judgment on their fathers, the next generation also rebelled against God. The "kindness of Israel's youth and love of her espousals in the wilderness" (Jer 2:2-3) were only comparative (the corruption in later times being more general), and confined to the minority; as a whole, Israel at no time fully served God. The "children" it was that fell into the fearful apostasy on the plains of Moab at the close of the wilderness sojourn (Num 25:1-2; Deu 31:27).”

“The probation in the wilderness. The promise was forfeited by those to whom it was first conditionally made, but was renewed to their children. Ezekiel 20:11 The “statutes” were given on Mount Sinai, and repeated by Moses before his death (Exodus 20:1 ff; Deuteronomy 4:8). In them - Or, through them: and in Ezekiel 20:13. Ezekiel 20:12 See Exodus 31:13. The Sabbath was a sign of a special people, commemorative of the work of creation, and hallowed to the honor of Yahweh, the covenant-God. As man honored God by keeping the Sabbath holy, so by the Sabbath, God “sanctified” Israel and marked them as a holy people. Therefore to profane the Sabbath was to abjure their Divine Governor. Ezekiel…”

“the children: Num 21:5, Num 25:1-8; Deu 9:23, Deu 9:24, Deu 31:27; Psa 106:29-33; Act 13:18 if a man: Eze 20:11, Eze 20:13 I would: Eze 20:8, Eze 20:13, Eze 21:31; Ch2 34:21, Ch2 34:25; Rev 16:1 accomplish: Eze 7:8, Eze 13:15; Lam 4:11; Dan 11:36 Ezekiel 20:22”