Despised; preferring Egypt and the former bondage before it, Numbers 14:3,4, and not thinking it worthy of a little hazard and difficulty in taking the possession of it. The pleasant land, Canaan; which was so not only in truth, Deuteronomy 11:11,12 Jer 3:19 Ezekiel 20:6, but even by the relation of those spies who discouraged them from entering into it. His word, i.e. his promise of giving them the land, and subduing all their enemies before them; which they knew by late and manifold experience that God was both able and willing to do.

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