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Psalm 106:26
Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
24Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,
25but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to the LORD’s voice.
26Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
27that he would overthrow their offspring among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.
28They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
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“Therefore” ties the wilderness judgment to the people’s refusal to believe God’s word, making his oath a sobering response to the rejection described before it.
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Jude 1:5Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t …Both passages recount God’s destruction of people whose unbelief followed their deliverance from Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:15Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the …Both recount God’s oath in the wilderness, with Ezekiel specifying that the people would not enter the land.
Numbers 14:28–35Tell them, ‘As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.Both record a solemn declaration from God that he would act against the people in response to their words.
1 Corinthians 10:5However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.Both name the wilderness as the place where God’s people were overthrown under his judgment.
Hebrews 3:11As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”Both recount God swearing judgment against his people; Hebrews names exclusion from his rest as the sentence.
Psalm 95:11Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”Both connect God’s oath with judgment against his people, expressed as overthrow or exclusion from his rest.
Numbers 14:22because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not …Numbers names refusal to listen to God’s voice, the same refusal that precedes the oath in Psalm 106.
Ezekiel 44:12Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up my hand against …Both describe God declaring judgment against his people for wrongdoing, though Ezekiel addresses service before idols.
Deuteronomy 2:14The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war were …Both connect the loss of the wilderness generation with an oath the LORD had sworn against them.
Deuteronomy 2:15Moreover the LORD’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.Both describe the LORD acting against his people to bring about their destruction in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 1:34–35The LORD heard the voice of your words and was angry, and swore, saying,Both recount the LORD swearing an oath after hearing the people’s words against him.
Hebrews 3:18To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?Both connect God’s sworn judgment with disobedience, described in the psalm’s context as refusing to hear his voice.
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