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What Does Deuteronomy 1:32 Mean?

Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,

Context

30

The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

31

And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

32

Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,

33

Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.

34

And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

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Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**8. Marah--**thought to be Ain Howarah, both from its position and the time (three days) it would take them with their children and flocks to march from the water of Ayun Musa to that spot.

Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, David Brown. Public Domain.

Historical Context

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Theological Significance

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