But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,
Parallel translations
- WEB Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,
- KJV Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
- NKJV Yet, for all that, you did not believe the Lord your God,
- NASB Yet in spite of all this, you did not trust the Lord your God,
- NLT “But even after all he did, you refused to trust the Lord your God,
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Quick answer
Despite all God's care, Israel did not believe the LORD their God. Unbelief is identified as the root failure.
Overview
This verse pinpoints the decisive sin: 'you didn't believe Yahweh your God.' Despite the exodus, the wilderness provision, and the good report of the land, Israel refused to trust Him. Scripture treats this unbelief as the heart of their rebellion, and Hebrews 3:19 cites it as the reason they could not enter God's rest. It stands as a perpetual warning that the gospel, too, must be received by faith in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Ps 106:24They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
- Jude 1:5Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
- Heb 3:18–19And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
- Heb 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
- Ps 78:22because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
- 2 Chr 20:20Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”
- Isa 7:9The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all.’”
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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