And when king Arad the Canaanite, who dwelt in the south, heard that Israel came by the way of the spies; then 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 despised my judgments, which if a man doeth, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Believed

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

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

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

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And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness.

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