And when King Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt toward the Negev, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the sentinels; then he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoners.

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they did not walk in my statutes, and they despised my rights, by which the man that does them shall live by them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted; therefore I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness to consume them.

Believed

because they had not believed God, nor had they trusted in his saving health;

And he said unto him, If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, even though one rose from the dead.

But although he had done so many signs before them, yet they did not believe in him,

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And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

But with many of them God was not pleased; therefore, they were overthrown in the wilderness.