Jezekiel 20:17

17 Yet mine eyes spared them, so as to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

Jezekiel 20:17 In-Context

15 But I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness once for all, that I would not bring them into the land which I gave them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is sweeter than all lands:

16 because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my commandments, but profaned my sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts.

17 Yet mine eyes spared them, so as to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

18 And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not ye in the customs of your fathers, and keep not their ordinances, and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves .

19 I the Lord your God; walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;