Ezekiel 20:18

But, and, or then I said. The fathers were refractory, and deaf, would not hearken, therefore God turns his advice to children. Though the particular place is not specified, yet among the calamities of that mournful age, and at the funerals of so many as then died, there were some that had piety, zeal, and courage enough to warn the survivors, and Psalms 90:7 affords us ground enough to believe Moses did warn and advise. In the wilderness; in that part of it where their fathers murmured, and where some were cut off by the hand of God, and in other parts through which they travelled and suffered. Walk ye not: it is both counsel, as from love, and a command, as from power; Live not as your fathers, for they walked contrary to reason, religion, and their own good, as much as they walked contrary to me. Your fathers; though fathers, they may not command contrary to God's command, nor be imitated in what they do contrary to God's law. Their judgments; it is observable, the prophet forbids them to imitate the customs, rites, and usages of their fathers, included in judgments, and thence passeth to forbid their imitating their fathers in their idolatry. Idolatry is fruitful when it so multiplied in Egyptian bondage, and in the desolate state of a people in the wilderness.