Psalms 106:24

“Yea, they despised the pleasant land - Margin, as in Hebrew, “land of desire.” That is, a country “to be desired,” - a country whose situation, climate, productions, made it desirable as a place of abode. Such Palestine was always represented to be to the children of Israel (Leviticus 20:24; Numbers 13:27; Numbers 14:8; Numbers 16:14; Deuteronomy 6:3; Deuteronomy 11:9; et al.;) but this land had to them, at the time here referred to, no attractions, and they rather desired to return again to Egypt; Numbers 11:5. They believed not his word - His assurance in regard to the land to which they were going. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Despised - Preferring Egypt, and their former bondage, before it, Num 14:3-4. Psalms 106:25”

“106:24-25 The people disobeyed God’s command when they refused to enter the pleasant land (the Promised Land; see Jer 3:19). • they wouldn’t believe his promise: See Num 13:25–14:12.”

“they despised: Gen 25:34; Num 13:32, Num 14:31; Mat 22:5; Heb 12:16 the pleasant land: Heb. a land of desire, Deu 8:7-9, Deu 11:11, Deu 11:12; Jer 3:19; Eze 20:6 they believed: Num 14:11; Deu 1:32; Heb 3:12, Heb 3:18, Heb 3:19, Heb 4:2, Heb 4:6, Heb 4:14; Jde 1:5 Psalms 106:25”

“The fact to which the poet refers in Psa 106:24, viz., the rebellion in consequence of the report of the spies, which he brings forward as the fourth principal sin, is narrated in Num 13, Num 14. The appellation ארץ חמדּה is also found in Jer 3:19; Zac 7:14. As to the rest, the expression is altogether Pentateuchal. "They despised the land," after Num 14:31; "they murmured in their tents," after Deu 1:27; "to lift up the land" = to swear, after Exo 6:8; Deu 32:40; the threat להפּיל, to make them fall down, fall away, after Num 14:29, Num 14:32. The threat of exile is founded upon the two great threatening chapters, Lev 26; Deu 28:1; cf. more particularly Lev 26:33 (together with the echoes…”