And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Believed

Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.

And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if one rise from the dead.

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they believed not on him:

General references

Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.