The Canaanite king of Arad, who was dwelling [in] the Negev, heard that Israel came [along] the way of Atharim; he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.

"But in the desert the house of Israel rebelled against me; {they did not walk in my statutes}, and they rejected my regulations, which, if a person does them, he will live by them, and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths, and I decided to pour out my rage on them in the desert to destroy them,

Believed

because they did not believe God, and they did not trust his salvation.

But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone rises from the dead.'"

But as many signs [as] he had performed before them, they did not believe in him,

General references

But they sinned still further against him by rebelling [against the] Most High in the desert.

But God was not pleased with the majority of them, for they were struck down in the desert.