Psalm 106:24
New International Version
Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe his promise.

New Living Translation
The people refused to enter the pleasant land, for they wouldn’t believe his promise to care for them.

English Standard Version
Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.

Berean Standard Bible
They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

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

New King James Version
Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe His word,

New American Standard Bible
Then they rejected the pleasant land; They did not believe His word,

NASB 1995
Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe in His word,

NASB 1977
Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe in His word,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe in His word,

Amplified Bible
Then they despised the pleasant land [of Canaan]; They did not believe in His word nor rely on it,

Christian Standard Bible
They despised the pleasant land and did not believe his promise.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They despised the pleasant land and did not believe His promise.

American Standard Version
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, They believed not his word,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They despised the land of desire and they did not believe his word,

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Moreover they set at nought the desirable land, and believed not his word.

Contemporary English Version
They would not trust you, LORD, and they did not like the promised land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word,

English Revised Version
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They refused [to enter] the pleasant land. They did not believe what he said.

Good News Translation
Then they rejected the pleasant land, because they did not believe God's promise.

International Standard Version
They rejected the desirable land, and they didn't trust his promise.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Moreover, they scorned the desirable land, They believed not His word;

Literal Standard Version
And they kick against the desirable land, | They have not given credence to His word.

Majority Standard Bible
They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

New American Bible
Next they despised the beautiful land; they did not believe the promise.

NET Bible
They rejected the fruitful land; they did not believe his promise.

New Revised Standard Version
Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.

New Heart English Bible
Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They did not believe his word,

Webster's Bible Translation
Yes, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

World English Bible
Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

Young's Literal Translation
And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.

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Context
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good
23So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them. 24They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise. 25They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.…

Cross References
Hebrews 3:19
So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.

Numbers 13:32
So 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.

Numbers 14:11
And 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?

Numbers 14:31
But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected--and they will enjoy it.

Deuteronomy 1:32
But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,

Deuteronomy 8:7
For 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;

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.


Treasury of Scripture

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

they despised

Genesis 25:34
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

Numbers 13:32
And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

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.

the pleasant land.

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, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

they believed

Numbers 14:11
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

Deuteronomy 1:32
Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,

Hebrews 3:12,18,19
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God…

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Psalm 106
1. The psalmist exhorts to praise God
4. He prays for pardon of sin, as God pardoned the fathers
7. The story of the people's rebellion, and God's mercy
47. He concludes with prayer and praise














(24-27) The rebellion that followed the report of the spies.

Verse 24. - Yea, they despised the pleasant land. The psalmist passes to the consideration of another sin. After the ill report of the spies (Numbers 13:27-33), the Israelites "despised" the land promised to them (Numbers 14:31), and relinquished all desire for it. They were ready to have turned back into Egypt (Numbers 14:3). They believed not his word; i.e. his promise to give them the land (Genesis 15:18-21; Exodus 23:31, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They despised
וַֽ֭יִּמְאֲסוּ (way·yim·’ă·sū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3988: To spurn, to disappear

the pleasant
חֶמְדָּ֑ה (ḥem·dāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2532: Desire, delight

land;
בְּאֶ֣רֶץ (bə·’e·reṣ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

they did not
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

believe
הֶ֝אֱמִ֗ינוּ (he·’ĕ·mî·nū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 539: To confirm, support

His promise.
לִדְבָרֽוֹ׃ (liḏ·ḇā·rōw)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause


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