When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. "Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.

Believed

because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power.

He said to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.'"

Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,

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Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.