Psalms 106:24

They despised the pleasant land and did not believe God's promise. It matters because unbelief made them spurn God's good gift.

Cross-references · 18

• Deut 1:32But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,
• Ezek 20:6On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.
• Num 14:31But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
• Heb 3:18–19And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
• Heb 4:6Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience,
• Jer 3:19Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
• 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.
• Deut 11:11–12But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
• Heb 4:2For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.
• Heb 12:16See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
• Heb 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
• Deut 8:7–9For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
• Matt 22:5But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.
• Gen 25:34Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
• Deut 9:23And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.
• Num 14:11And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
• Heb 4:14Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess.
• Num 13:32So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.

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