'Commandments' in the Bible

Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do as their fathers.

They were for testing Israel, to find out if they would obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had commanded their fathers through Moses.