Ezekiel 20:10

Brought them into the wilderness. — Here begins the second period of the history under review — viz., the earlier part of the life in the wilderness (Ezekiel 20:10). It includes the exodus, the giving of the law, the setting up of the tabernacle, the establishment of the priesthood, and the march to Kadesh. By all this the nation was constituted most distinctly the people of God, and brought into the closest covenant relation with him.