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

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 do, he shall live by them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned: and I said I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Believed

Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;

And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among the dead will they be persuaded.

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

General references

Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;

yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.