Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
Parallel translations
- WEB Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,
- BSB But in spite of all this, you did not trust 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 106:24Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
- Jude 1:5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
- Heb 3:18–19And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
- Heb 3:12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
- Ps 78:22Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
- 2 Chr 20:20And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
- Isa 7:9And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
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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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