Ezekiel 20:17-21

Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not bring about their annihilation in the wilderness.

“Instead, I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

I am the Lord your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and follow them.

Sanctify My Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’

But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to follow My ordinances which, if a person follows them, then he will live by them; they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to use up My anger against them in the wilderness.