Psalm 106:24

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Summary

Psalm 106:24

Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

They despised

Hebrews 12:16

The pleasant land

They believed

Jude 1:5

General references

Deuteronomy 1:26

Psalm 78:22

Bible References

They despised

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and got up and went on his way. In this way Esau scorned his birthright.

So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we went, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants. And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.

But your children whom you said would become plunder, I will bring in, and they will know the land which you have despised and rejected.

But they paid no attention [they disregarded the invitation, treating it with contempt] and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

and [see to it] that no one is immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

The pleasant land

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

But the land into which you are about to cross to possess, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven,

“Then I said,

‘How [gloriously and honorably] I would set you among My children
And give you a pleasant land—a wonderful heritage,
The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’
And I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father
And not turn away from following Me.’

on that day I swore to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, [plentiful and] flowing with milk and honey, [a land] which is an ornament and a glory to all lands.

They believed

The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me disrespectfully and reject Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the [miraculous] signs which I have performed among them?

Yet in spite of this word, you did not trust [that is, confidently rely on and believe] the Lord your God,

Take care, brothers and sisters, that there not be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to trust and rely on the Lord, a heart] that turns away from the living God.

For indeed we have had the good news [of salvation] preached to us, just as the Israelites also [when the good news of the promised land came to them]; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not united with faith [in God] by those who heard.

Now I want to remind you, although you are fully informed once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe [who refused to trust and obey and rely on Him].

General references

“Yet you were not willing to go up [to take possession of it], but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God.

Because they did not believe in God [they did not rely on Him, they did not adhere to Him],
And they did not trust in His salvation (His power to save).