Text: Psalm 106:24
OT Text Referred to: Numbers 14:31
Subject: wilderness judgment
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Numbers 14:31 promises that Israel's children, whom the faithless generation assumed would become plunder (Numbers 14:3), will instead inherit the land their parents rejected. Psalm 106:24 captures the parents' fundamental failure: "They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise." The psalmist's verb מָאַס (ma'as, "despise/reject") interprets the spy episode not as mere fear but as an active refusal of God's gift. The children's eventual entry into the land demonstrates that God's promise persists across generations despite parental unbelief.