Psalms 106:24

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
despised	וַֽ֭יִּמְאֲסוּ Vai.yim.'a.su	H3988	to spurn · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
pleasant	חֶמְדָּ֑ה chem.Dah	H2532	delight · noun, common feminine singular absolute
land	בְּאֶ֣רֶץ be.'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
believed	הֶ֝אֱמִ֗ינוּ he.'e.Mi.nu	H539	properly · verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person common plural
word	לִדְבָרֽוֹ lid.va.Ro	H1697	a word · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

Deuteronomy 1:32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
Numbers 14:31 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.
Ezekiel 20:6 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 wi…
Hebrews 3:18-19 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
Hebrews 4:6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
Deuteronomy 8:7-9 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills…
Deuteronomy 11:11-12 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
Jeremiah 3:19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, T…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 106:13-33

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 (Co1 10:5, etc.); 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 word of God, Psa 106:13. 1. They minded not what he had done for them: They soon forgot his works, and lost the impressions they had made upon them. Those that do not improve God's mercies to them, nor endeavour in some measure to render according to the benefit done unto them, do indeed forget th…

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John Gill on Psalms 106:24

Yea, they despised the pleasant land,.... Or "land of desire" (r); the land of Canaan; a very delightful and desirable country, the glory of all lands, a land that abounded with everything for necessity and pleasure. The spies themselves, that brought an ill report of it, owned it was a land flowing with milk and honey; but that there were such difficulties to possess it which they thought insuperable: and hence the people despised it, inasmuch as, when they were bid to go and possess it, they refused, and did not choose to be at any difficulty in subduing the inhabitants of it, or run any risk or hazard of their lives in taking it, though the Lord had promised, to give it them, and settle t…

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John Calvin on Psalms 106:23-27

Psalm 106:23-27 23. And he said that he would destroy them, unless that Moses his chosen had stood in the breach before his face, to turn away his wrath, that he might not destroy them. 24. And they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe his word; 25. And they murmured in their tents, and did not listen to the voice of Jehovah. 26. And he lifted up his hand against them, to destroy them in the desert: 27. And to destroy their seed among the heathen, and to scatter them throughout the lands. [254] 23. And he said The prophet informs us, by these words, that the people had a feeling sense of their remarkable deliverance from impending destruction, by means of prayer alone, which, f…

The Church Fathers

"Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasant land" [Psalm 106:24]. But had they seen it? How then could they scorn that which they had not seen, except as the following words explain, "and believed not in His words." Indeed, unless that land which was styled the land that flowed with milk and honey, [Exodus 3:8] signified something great, through which, as by a visible token, He was leading those who understood His wondrous works to invisible grace and the kingdom of heaven, they could not be blamed for scorning that land, whose temporal kingdom we also ought to esteem as nothing, that we may love that Jerusalem which is free, the mother of us all, [Galatians 4:26] which is in heaven, and truly to be desired. But rather unbelief is here reproved, since they gave no credence to the words of God, who was leading them to great things through small things, and hastening to bless themselves with temporal things, which they carnally savoured of, they "abided not His counsel," as is said above.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 106

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Dictionary and topics

Alleluia — The Greek form (Rev. 19:1, 3, 4, 6) of the Hebrew Hallelujah = Praise ye Jehovah, which begins or ends several of the psalms (106, 111, 112, 113, etc.).
Desert, Journey Of Israel Through The · Marked by constant murmurings and rebellions — Marked by constant murmurings and rebellions
Disobedience To God · .In refusing to enter the promised land — .In refusing to enter the promised land
Holy Land · Called: Pleasant land — Called: Pleasant land
Impenitence · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Infidelity · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Rebellion Against God · Exhibited in: Unbelief — Exhibited in: Unbelief
Unbelief · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 106:24

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 106:13-33

John Gill on Psalms 106:24

John Calvin on Psalms 106:23-27

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 106:24

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 106:13-33

John Gill on Psalms 106:24

John Calvin on Psalms 106:23-27

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 106:24-33

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 106:24-25

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 106:23