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24Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
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Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? …
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-33)This is an abridgment of the history of Israel’s provocations in the wilderness, and of the wrath of God against them for those provocations: and this abridgment is abridged by the apostle, with application to us Christians (1 Cor. 10:5); for these things were written for our admonition , that we sin not like them, lest we suffer like them. I. The cause of their sin was disregard to the works and…
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