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Psalm 78:22
because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.
20Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”
21Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,
22because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.
23Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
24He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.
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The word “because” ties Israel’s unbelief to God’s anger, exposing the weight of distrusting his salvation after water had flowed from the rock.
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Hebrews 11:6Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.Both texts treat believing God as essential: Israel’s unbelief provokes anger, and Hebrews says pleasing God is impossible without faith.
Numbers 14:11The LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? How long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?Both passages name Israel’s failure to believe God despite the signs he had worked among them.
Hebrews 3:18–19To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?Both passages recount God’s judgment on his people, with the psalm naming unbelief and Hebrews naming disobedience.
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 unbelief among the people God saved, and both describe his judgment against them.
Deuteronomy 1:32Yet in this thing you didn’t believe the LORD your God,Both texts state the same failure among God’s people: they did not believe the LORD their God.
Hebrews 3:12Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;The psalm records unbelief in God among his people; Hebrews warns its hearers against that same unbelief.
Psalm 78:32For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.Both verses name Israel’s unbelief within the same account; verse 32 shows it continuing despite God’s wondrous works.
Zephaniah 3:2She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in the LORD. She didn’t draw near to her God.Both texts name a failure to trust God; Zephaniah also describes refusing correction and failing to draw near.
Exodus 16:28The LORD said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?Both passages confront Israel’s response to God: the psalm names distrust, while Exodus names refusal to keep his commands.
Deuteronomy 9:23When the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your …Both passages name Israel’s unbelief; Deuteronomy locates it at Kadesh Barnea, where the people refused God’s command to enter the land.
1 John 5:10He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony …Both passages condemn failing to believe God; John addresses unbelief concerning God’s testimony about his Son.
Psalm 106:24Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,Both psalms recount Israel’s unbelief, naming distrust of God’s salvation here and disbelief in his word in Psalm 106.
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God takes distrust of his salvation with grave seriousness. Yet the next lines record manna falling: Israel’s unbelief did not prevent God from giving food.
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