Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then they refused the desirable land; they did not believe his word,

New American Standard Bible

Then they despised the pleasant land;
They did not believe in His word,

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

They despised the pleasant land
and did not believe His promise.

International Standard Version

They rejected the desirable land, and they didn't trust his promise.

A Conservative Version

Yea, they despised the pleasant land. They did not believe his word,

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


Then they despised the pleasant land [of Canaan];
They did not believe in His word nor rely on it,

Bible in Basic English

They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word;

Darby Translation

And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,

Julia Smith Translation

And they will despise in the land of desire; they trusted not to his word:

King James 2000

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

Modern King James verseion

And they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His Word,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasant land, and gave no credence unto his word,

NET Bible

They rejected the fruitful land; they did not believe his promise.

New Heart English Bible

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They did not believe his word,

The Emphasized Bible

And they refused the delightful land, They believed not his word;

Webster

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

World English Bible

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn't believe his word,

Youngs Literal Translation

And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מאס 
Ma'ac 
Usage: 76

the pleasant
חמדּה 
Chemdah 
Usage: 16

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

References

Fausets

Watsons

Context Readings

Praise To Yahweh For His Faithfulness In Israel's History

23 So he said he would exterminate them, had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to reverse his wrath from destroying [them]. 24 Then they refused the desirable land; they did not believe his word, 25 but grumbled in their tents. They did not obey the voice of Yahweh.

Cross References

Numbers 14:31

But your little children, whom you said would be plunder, I will bring them, and they will know the land that you rejected.

Deuteronomy 1:32

But through all of this you did not trust in Yahweh your God,

Ezekiel 20:6

On that day {I swore} to them to bring them out from the land of Egypt to [the] land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey--it [is the most] beautiful of all of the lands.

Jeremiah 3:19

Then I thought, 'How I would set you among the children, and I would give you a land of desire, an inheritance of [the] glory of [the] hosts of nations.' And I thought, 'You would call me, "My father," and you would not turn back from {behind} me.'

Hebrews 3:18-19

And to whom did he swear [they would] not enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

Genesis 25:34

Then Jacob gave Esau bread, and thick lentil stew, and he ate and drank. Then he got up and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.

Numbers 13:32

And they presented the report of the land that they explored to the {Israelites}, saying, "The land that we went through to explore [is] a land that eats its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in its midst [are] {men of great size}.

Numbers 14:11

And Yahweh said to Moses, "How long until this people will despise me, and how long until they will not believe in me, [and] in all the signs that I have done in their midst?

Deuteronomy 8:7-9

For Yahweh your God [is] bringing you to a good land [with] streams of water, springs and underground water, welling up in the valleys and in the hills,

Deuteronomy 9:23

And when Yahweh sent you [out] from Kadesh Barnea, {saying}, 'Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,' you rebelled against the command of Yahweh your God, and you did not believe him, and you did not listen to his voice.

Deuteronomy 11:11-12

But the land that you [are] about to cross into to take possession of it [is] a land of hills and valleys, [and] by the rain of the heaven it drinks water,

Matthew 22:5

But they paid no attention [and] went away--this one to his own field, that one to his business.

Hebrews 3:12

Watch out, brothers, lest there be in some of you an evil, unbelieving heart, [with the result that you] fall away from the living God.

Hebrews 4:2

{For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us}, just as those also [did], but the message {they heard} did not benefit them, [because they] were not united with those who heard [it] in faith.

Hebrews 4:6

Since therefore it remains [for] some to enter into it, and the ones to whom the good news was proclaimed previously did not enter because of disobedience,

Hebrews 4:14

Therefore, [because we] have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.

Hebrews 12:16

[that] no one [be] a sexually immoral or totally worldly [person] like Esau, who for one meal traded his own birthright.

Jude 1:5

Now I want to remind you, [although] you know everything once and for all, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, the second time destroyed those who did not believe.

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