Ezekiel 20:8

I said, I will pour out my fury— I thought to pour out, &c. and so Ezekiel 20:13; Ezekiel 20:21. We do not read in the book of Exodus, that the Israelites worshipped the idols of Egypt. It is only collected from that book, that they were idolaters in Egypt, because they were so prone to idolatry in the wilderness, in the very midst of God's miracles. But from the manner in which the prophet here upbraids them, we learn that the history of the Israelites is written very compendiously in the books of Moses; and that we may very properly supply some things in the sacred history, in order to explain difficult places, so long as we are led by the hand as it were, and authorized by the sacred writers. See Houbigant.