When the Canaanite king of Arad who lived in the Negev heard that Israel was approaching along the road to Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoner.

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations (the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them.

Believed

because they did not have faith in God, and did not trust his ability to deliver them.

He replied to him, 'If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'"

Although Jesus had performed so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him,

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Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the sovereign One in the desert.

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.