King James Version
Deuteronomy 1:32 in the King James Version says “Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,”
Deuteronomy 1:32 · KJV
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;
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.
Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
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.
And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Yet in this thing”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
“ye did not believe”
H539properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanen
“the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“your God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
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