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Psalms 106:24

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

  • KJV King James Version

    Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Moreover, they scorned the desirable land, they believed not His word;

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Cross-references (18)

Passages linked to Psalms 106:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 1:32 Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,
  • Numbers 14:31 But I will bring your little ones that you said should be captured or killed in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
  • Ezekiel 20:6 in that day I swore to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
  • Hebrews 3:18-19 To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient? We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.
  • Hebrews 4:6 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,
  • Deuteronomy 8:7-9 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills; a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey; a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
  • Deuteronomy 11:11-12 but the land that you go over to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky, a land which Yahweh your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
  • Jeremiah 3:19 “But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’
  • Matthew 22:5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,
  • Hebrews 3:12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
  • Hebrews 4:2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.
  • Hebrews 12:16 lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
  • Jude 1:5 Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
  • Genesis 25:34 Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
  • Numbers 14:11 Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
  • Deuteronomy 9:23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice.
  • Numbers 13:32 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
  • Hebrews 4:14 Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.

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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 24. And they despised It was an evident demonstration…

24. And they despised It was an evident demonstration of the unconquerable wickedness of the Jews, that, after they had been in the jaws of destruction, and while they had scarcely escaped from danger so great and so imminent, they rose up in rebellion against God. What was the cause of this rebellion? The despising of the Holy Land, which of all things ought to have been most desired by them. The country of Canaan, which had been destined to them, as the place where they were to be brought up under God’s paternal care, and as a people separated from heathen nations were to worship him only, and which, also, was more especially to them a pledge of the heavenly inheritance, — this country here, and in several other passages, is very properly called the pleasant land Was it not, then, the basest ingratitude to despise the holy habitation of God’s chosen people? To the cause of this scorn the prophet refers, when he says, they did not believe God’s word For had they laid hold upon God’s promise with that faith which it was incumbent upon them to do, they would have been inflamed with such a strong desire for that land, that they would have surmounted all obstacles which might occur in their way to it. Meanwhile, not believing his word, they not only refuse the heritage which was offered to them, but excite a rebellion in the camp, as if they would rise up in arms against God.

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, Canaan, which was as it were an…
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 106:24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Despised; preferring Egypt and the former bondage before it,…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Yea, they despised the pleasant land,.... Or "land of…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Despised - Preferring Egypt, and their former bondage, before…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Psa 106:24-27. They despised the pleasant land — Canaan,…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Yea, they despised the pleasant land - Margin, as…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 24. They despised the pleasant land—And so God despised…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 24. They despised, or rejected (as Num_14:31), the pleasant…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (24-27) The rebellion that followed the report of the…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Yea, they despised the pleasant land. The psalmist passes…
Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 24. Yea, they despised the pleasant land. They…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Yea, they despised the pleasant land.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 his promise
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 106:24-25 The people disobeyed God’s command when they refused…

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