The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Believed

because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation.

"He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn't believe in him,

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Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

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