24-27. The sin of refusing to invade Canaan, "the pleasant land"
(Jer 3:19;
Eze 20:6;
Da 8:9),
"the land of beauty," was punished by the destruction of that
generation
(Nu 14:28),
and the threat of dispersion
(De 4:25; 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).
JFB.
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