Psalms 106:24
in Psalms 106They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
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ASV
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, They believed not his word,
KJV
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
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This verse in Psalms 106
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThe heavenly Canaan is a pleasant land. A promise is left us of entering into it; but there are many that despise it, that neglect and refuse the offer of it, that prefer the wealth and pleasure of this world before it, and grudge the pains and hazards of this life to obtain that.
This site's exposition
they despised the pleasant land
on Psalms 106:24-27
They despised the pleasant land and did not believe His promise. That is the spies' report of Numbers 13 and 14, and the grumbling in their tents that followed it. He swore they would fall in the wilderness and their offspring be scattered among the nations.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"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.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
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 Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
28:32) afterwards made to their posterity, and fulfilled in the great calamities now bewailed, may have also been then added. despised-- (Nu 14:31). believed not his word--by which He promised He would give them the land; but rather the word of the faithless spies (compare Ps 78:22).
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A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Yea, they despised the pleasant land - Margin, as in Hebrew, “land of desire.” That is, a country “to be desired,” - a country whose situation, climate, productions, made it desirable as a place of abode. Such Palestine was always represented to be to the children of Israel (Lev 20:24; Num 13:27; Num 14:8; Num 16:14; Deu 6:3; Deu 11:9; et al.;) but this land had to them, at the time here referred to, no attractions, and they rather desired to return again to Egypt; Num 11:5. They believed not his word - His assurance in regard to the land to which they were going.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַֽ֭יִּמְאֲסוּ | vaiyimasu | and they rejected | H3988 → | 76 times |
| בְּאֶ֣רֶץ | beeretz | <in> [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| חֶמְדָּ֑ה | chemdah | desire | H2532 → | |
| לֹֽא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| הֶ֝אֱמִ֗ינוּ | heeminu | they believed | H539 → | 106 times |
| לִדְבָרֽוֹ׃ | lidvaro | <to> word his | H1697 → | 1440 times |
וַֽ֭יִּמְאֲסוּand they rejected
vaiyimasuH3988 →76 times
בְּאֶ֣רֶץ<in> [the] land of
beeretzH776 →2504 times
חֶמְדָּ֑הdesire
chemdahH2532 →
לֹֽא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
הֶ֝אֱמִ֗ינוּthey believed
heeminuH539 →106 times
לִדְבָרֽוֹ׃<to> word his
lidvaroH1697 →1440 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Hebrews 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,
it leads to
- Hebrews 3:18–19
And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Matthew 21:43
Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
- Hebrews 3:18–19
Through
Deuteronomy 1:32But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,
it leads to
- Jude 1:5
Although 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.
- Jude 1:5
Through
Ezekiel 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…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 20:15
Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory…
- Jeremiah 32:22
You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Exodus 3:8
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…
- Psalms 48:2
Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
- Ezekiel 20:15
Through
Numbers 14:31But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 1:39
And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
- Deuteronomy 1:39
About Psalms
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 106; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Psalms; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.