Unbelief

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerning Jude 1:5Exodus 4:1Numbers 11:21–23Numbers 20:12Numbers 20:13Psalms 78:19Psalms 78:21Psalms 78:22Psalms 78:32Psalms 95:8–11Psalms 106:7Psalms 106:24Isaiah 6:9Isaiah 6:10Isaiah 7:9Isaiah 53:1–3Isaiah 58:3Jeremiah 5:12–14Malachi 1:2Malachi 1:7Matthew 10:14
• INSTANCES OF
• EveGenesis 3:4–6
• Moses and AaronNumbers 20:12
• IsraelitesDeuteronomy 9:232 Kings 17:14Psalms 78
• Naaman2 Kings 5:12
• A Samaritan lord2 Kings 7:2
• DisciplesMatthew 17:17Luke 24:11Luke 24:25
• ZachariasLuke 1:20
• Chief priestsLuke 22:67
• The Jewish leadersMark 1:45Mark 2:6–11Mark 8:11Mark 8:12Mark 15:29–32John 5:38John 5:40John 5:43John 5:46John 5:47
• DisciplesMatthew 17:20Mark 4:38Mark 4:40Luke 24:41–45

The passages, in Bible order (157)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 3:4–6

   “You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 3:4–62 voices

   “Let us learn, therefore, that the temptations of the Devil are full of guile. Of the things that he promised, scarcely one of them seems to be true. He contrived falsehoods, as we can see if we read elsewhere: 'And the serpent said to the woman, you shall not die.' [ Gen 3:4 ] Here we have one falsehood, for man, who followed the promises of the serpent, is subject to death.

   “Ye shall not surely die - Here the father of lies at once appears; and appears too in flatly contradicting the assertion of God. The tempter, through the nachash, insinuates the impossibility of her dying, as if he had said, God has created thee immortal, thy death therefore is impossible; and God knows this, for as thou livest by the tree of life, so shalt thou get increase of wisdom by the tree of knowledge.

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2. Exodus 4:1

   Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’”

   ›Commentary on Exodus 4:11 voice

   “But, behold--Hebrew, "If," "perhaps," "they will not believe me."--What evidence can I produce of my divine mission? There was still a want of full confidence, not in the character and divine power of his employer, but in His presence and power always accompanying him.

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3. Numbers 11:21–23

   But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’

   ›Commentary on Numbers 11:21–231 voice

   “It is an objection like that which the disciples made, Mark viii. 4 , Whence can a man satisfy these men? Some excuse Moses here, and construe what he says as only a modest enquiry which way the supply must be expected; but it savours too much of diffidence and distrust of God to be justified.

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4. Numbers 20:12

   But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”

   ›Commentary on Numbers 20:122 voices

   “Because ye believed me not - What was the offense for which Moses was excluded from the promised land? It appears to have consisted in some or all of the following particulars: 1. God had commanded him (Num 20:8) to take the rod in his hand, and go and Speak To The Rock, and it should give forth water. It seems Moses did not think speaking would be sufficient, therefore he smote the rock without any command so to do.

   “Fifthly, That which aggravated all the rest, and made it the more provoking, was that it was public, before the eyes of the children of Israel, to whom they should have been examples of faith, and hope, and meekness. We find Moses guilty of sinful distrust, ch. xi. That was private between God and him, and therefore was only checked.

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5. Numbers 20:13

   These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His holiness among them.

   ›Commentary on Numbers 20:131 voice

   “The water of Meribah - i. e. “Strife.” The place is called “Meribah in Kadesh” Num 27:14, and “Meribah-Kadesh” Deu 32:51. to distinguish it from the “Meribah” of Exo 17:2 ff. And he was sanctified in them - An allusion doubtless to the name “Kadesh” (holy), which though not now bestowed, acquired a new significance from the fact that God here vindicated His own sanctity, punishing Moses and Aaron who had trespassed against it.

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6. Deuteronomy 9:23

   And 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.

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7. 2 Kings 5:12

   Are not the Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not have washed in them and been cleansed?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 5:122 voices

   “Abana and Pharpar--the Barrady and one of its five tributaries--uncertain which. The waters of Damascus are still highly extolled by their inhabitants for their purity and coldness.

   “Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?.... Abana is, in the marginal reading, called Amana, and so the Targum; perhaps from the Mount Amana, from whence it sprung, a mountain in Syria (g), mentioned with Lebanon, Son 4:

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8. 2 Kings 7:2

   But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 7:22 voices

   “Then a lord - שליש shalish. This word, as a name of office, occurs often, and seems to point out one of the highest offices in the state. So unlikely was this prediction to be fulfilled, that he thought God must pour out wheat and barley from heaven before it could have a literal accomplishment. But shalt not eat thereof - This was a mere prediction of his death, but not as a judgment for his unbelief; any person in his circumstances might have spoken as he did.

   “The murmuring Israelites saw Canaan, but could not enter in because of unbelief. Such (says bishop Patrick) will be the portion of those that believe not the promise of eternal life; they shall see it at a distance--Abraham afar off, but shall never taste of it; for they forfeit the benefit of the promise if they cannot find in their heart to take God's word.

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9. 2 Kings 17:14

   But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 17:142 voices

   “Notwithstanding, they would not hear,.... Their instructions, advice, and admonitions, and obey them: but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God: as Terah and Nahor, who were idolaters; or rather, their fathers in the wilderness, that made and served the calf, and those that rebelled against Moses and Aaron; it is a metaphor taken from oxen, that will not submit their necks to the yoke, but draw back from it, or cast it off, see Act 7:51.

   “To “harden” or “stiffen the neck” is a common Hebrew expression significative of unbending obstinacy and determined self-will. See the marginal references.

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10. Psalms 78:1

    Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.

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11. Psalms 78:19

    They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

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12. Psalms 78:21

    Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,

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13. Psalms 78:22

    because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

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14. Psalms 78:32

    In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

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15. Psalms 95:8–11

    do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

    ›Commentary on Psalms 95:8–112 voices

    “Harden not your heart. If ye will hear, learn to fear also. The sea and the land obey him, do not prove more obstinate than they! We cannot soften our hearts, but we can harden them, and the consequences will be fatal. Today is too good a day to be profaned by the hardening of our hearts against our own mercies. While mercy reigns let not obduracy rebel. "As in the provocations, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness" (or, "like Meribah, like the day of Massah in the wilderness"). Be not wilfully, wantonly, repeatedly, obstinately rebellious.

    “Harden not your hearts,.... Against Christ, against his Gospel, against all the light and evidence of it. There is a natural hardness of the heart, owing to the corruption of nature; and an habitual hardness, acquired by a constant continuance and long custom in sinning; and there is a judicial hardness, which God gives men up unto. There is a hardness of heart, which sometimes attends God's own people, through the deceitfulness of sin gaining upon them; of which, when sensible, they complain, and do well to guard against.

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16. Psalms 106:7

    Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

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    “Our fathers in Egypt did not understand your wonders. They saw, and they did not see: they saw with the eyes of the flesh, and with spiritual eyes they did not see. He did not say, they did not see: but, they did not understand. For just as those men saw the wonders, and did not understand: so also in the Gospel, if anyone indeed sees and hears carnally, but does not understand spiritually, he does not see. Blessed therefore are we who have not seen and yet have believed, more than those who saw and did not believe.

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