Believing Jesus is believing God Jehovah and living according to the words of God Jehovah. And the words of God Jehovah include contents about Jesus.

Believing Jesus also do not continue to sin.

Faith is completed by works, as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

<'Believing Jesus' of a condition God give the Holy Spirit>

(Act11:17)If then God has given them the same gift as also to us when we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who indeed was *I* to be able to forbid God?

(Jon7:37)In the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.

(Jon7:38)He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

(Jon7:39)But this he said concerning the Spirit, which they that believed on him were about to receive; for [the] Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

(Gal3:2)This only I wish to learn of you, Have ye received the Spirit on the principle of works of law, or of [the] report of faith?

1 Believing Jesus

1-1 Believing God(Living according to the words of God Jehovah include contents about Jesus)

1-2 Not to commit sin

2 Example of believing God Jehovah

2-1 Faith of Abraham

2-2 Faith of Joshua and Caleb

2-3 Faith of the men of Nineveh

3 Example of not believing God Jehovah

3-1 Not believing the men of Israel

3-2 Not believing of Moses and Aaron

1 Believing Jesus

1-1 Believing God(Living according to the words of God Jehovah include contents about Jesus)

(Jon12:44)But Jesus cried and said, He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on him that sent me;

(Jon3:14)And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, thus must the Son of man be lifted up,

(Jon3:15)that every one who believes on him may [not perish, but] have life eternal.

(Jon3:16)For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.

(Jon3:17)For God has not sent his Son into the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.

(Jon3:18)He that believes on him is not judged: but he that believes not has been already judged, because he has not believed on the name of the only-begotten Son of God.

(Jon3:19)And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil.

(Jon3:20)For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;

(Jon3:21)but he that practises the truth comes to the light, that his works may be manifested that they have been wrought in God.

(Rom3:21)But now without law righteousness of God is manifested, borne witness to by the law and the prophets;

(Rom3:22)righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all, and upon all those who believe: for there is no difference;

(Rom3:23)for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

(Rom3:24)being justified freely by his grace through the redemption which [is] in Christ Jesus;

(Rom3:25)whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

(Rom3:26)for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of [the] faith of Jesus.

(Num21:4)And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to go round the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became impatient on the way;

(Num21:5)and the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have ye brought us up out of Egypt that we should die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and no water, and our soul loathes this light bread.

(Num21:6)Then Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, which bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

(Num21:7)And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, in that we have spoken against Jehovah, and against thee: pray to Jehovah that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

(Num21:8)And Jehovah said to Moses, Make thee a fiery [serpent], and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, and looketh upon it, shall live.

(Num21:9)And <Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole; and it came to pass, if a serpent had bitten any man, and he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived>.

1-2 Not to commit sin

[NIV] (Gal2:17)"If, while we seek to be justified in Christ, it becomes evident that we ourselves are sinners, does that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!

[ASV] (Gal2:17)But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.

[RSV] (Gal2:17)But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were found to be sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not!

[DBY] (Gal2:17)Now if in seeking to be justified in Christ we also have been found sinners, then [is] Christ minister of sin? Far be the thought.

[BBE] (Gal2:17)But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

[Webster] (Gal2:17)But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? By no means.

[NIV] (Rom6:15)What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

[ASV] (Rom6:15)What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.

[RSV] (Rom6:15)What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

[NLT] (Rom6:15)So since God's grace has set us free from the law, does this mean we can go on sinning? Of course not!

[DBY] (Rom6:15)What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.

[WEB] (Rom6:15)What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

(Rom6:1)What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?

(Rom6:2)Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?

(Heb10:26)For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins,

(Heb10:27)but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and heat of fire about to devour the adversaries.

(Heb10:28)Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses:

(Heb10:29)of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

<Sin>

[KJV] (1jo3:4)Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

[BBE] (1jo3:4)Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.

[NLT] (1jo3:4)Those who sin are opposed to the law of God, for all sin opposes the law of God.

[NIV] (1jo3:4)Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.

[DBY] (1jo3:4)Every one that practises sin practises also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

[DOUAY] (1jo3:4)Whosoever committeth sin committeth also iniquity. And sin is iniquity.

(2ch12:1)And it came to pass when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and when he had become strong, [that] he forsook the law of Jehovah, and all Israel with him.

(2ch12:2)And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, because they had transgressed against Jehovah, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,

(Dan9:10)and we have not hearkened unto the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us through his servants the prophets.

(Dan9:11)And all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside so as not to listen unto thy voice. And the curse hath been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God: for we have sinned against him.

(Jer16:10)And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt declare unto this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? and what is our iniquity? and what is our sin which we have committed against Jehovah our God?

(Jer16:11)then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

2 Example of Believing God Jehovah

2-1 Faith of Abraham

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(Gen15:1)After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, thy exceeding great reward.

(Gen15:2)And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.

(Gen15:3)And Abram said, Lo, to me thou hast given no seed, and behold, a son of my house will be mine heir.

(Gen15:4)And behold, the word of Jehovah [came] to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir, but he that will come forth out of thy body shall be thine heir.

(Gen15:5)And he led him out, and said, Look now toward the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be!

(Gen15:6)And he believed Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him [as] righteousness.

(Rom4:16)Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

(Rom4:17)(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

(Rom4:18)who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:

(Rom4:19)and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,

(Rom4:20)and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;

(Rom4:21)and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;

(Rom4:22)wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

(Rom4:23)Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,

(Rom4:24)but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among [the] dead Jesus our Lord,

(Rom4:25)who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.

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(Gen22:1)And it came to pass after these things, that God tried Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! and he said, Here am I.

(Gen22:2)And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son], whom thou lovest, Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and there offer him up for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

(Gen22:3)And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up and went to the place that God had told him of.

(Gen22:4)On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.

(Gen22:5)And Abraham said to his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

(Gen22:6)And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and the knife, and they went both of them together.

(Gen22:7)And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, My father! And he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the sheep for a burnt-offering?

(Gen22:8)And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself with the sheep for a burnt-offering. And they went both of them together.

(Gen22:9)And they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built the altar there, and piled the wood; and he bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

(Gen22:10)And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slaughter his son.

(Gen22:11)And the Angel of Jehovah called to him from the heavens, and said, Abraham, Abraham! And he said, Here am I.

(Gen22:12)And he said, Stretch not out thy hand against the lad, neither do anything to him; for now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son], from me.

(Gen22:13)And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt-offering instead of his son.

(Gen22:14)And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh; as it is said at the present day, On the mount of Jehovah will be provided.

(Gen22:15)And the Angel of Jehovah called to Abraham from the heavens a second time,

(Gen22:16)and said, By myself I swear, saith Jehovah, that, because thou hast done this, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son],

(Gen22:17)I will richly bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed, as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

(Gen22:18)and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because thou hast hearkened to my voice.

(Jam2:14)What [is] the profit, my brethren, if any one say he have faith, but have not works? can faith save him?

(Jam2:15)Now if a brother or a sister is naked and destitute of daily food,

(Jam2:16)and one from amongst you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled; but give not to them the needful things for the body, what [is] the profit?

(Jam2:17)So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.

(Jam2:18)But some one will say, *Thou* hast faith and *I* have works. Shew me thy faith without works, and *I* from my works will shew thee my faith.

(Jam2:19)*Thou* believest that God is one. Thou doest well. The demons even believe, and tremble.

(Jam2:20)But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

(Jam2:21)Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

(Jam2:22)Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and that by works faith was perfected.

(Jam2:23)And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and he was called Friend of God.

(Jam2:24)Ye see that a man is justified on the principle of works, and not on the principle of faith only.

(Jam2:25)But was not in like manner also Rahab the harlot justified on the principle of works, when she had received the messengers and put [them] forth by another way?

(Jam2:26)For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

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(Gen21:12)And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy handmaid: [in] all that Sarah hath said to thee hearken to her voice, for in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

(Heb11:17)By faith Abraham, [when] tried, offered up Isaac, and he who had received to himself the promises offered up his only begotten [son],

(Heb11:18)as to whom it had been said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

(Heb11:19)counting that God [was] able to raise [him] even from among [the] dead, whence also he received him in a figure.

2-2 Faith of Joshua and Caleb

(Deu9:23)And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you, ye rebelled against the word of Jehovah your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

(Deu1:20)And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God giveth us.

(Deu1:21)Behold, Jehovah thy God hath set the land before thee: go up, take possession, as Jehovah the God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be dismayed.

(Num14:24)But my servant Caleb, because he hath another spirit in him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he came; and his seed shall possess it.

(Num32:12)save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; for they have wholly followed Jehovah.

(Deu1:36)Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed Jehovah.

(Deu9:23)And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you, ye rebelled against the word of Jehovah your God, and <ye believed him not>, nor hearkened to his voice.

(Num14:6)And <Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of them that searched out the land, rent their garments.

(Num14:7)And they spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it out, is a very, very good land.

(Num14:8)If Jehovah delight in us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land that flows with milk and honey;

(Num14:9)only rebel not against Jehovah; and fear not the people of the land; for they shall be our food. Their defence is departed from them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.>

(Num14:10)And the whole assembly said that they should be stoned with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Israel.

(Num14:11)And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and <how long will they not believe me>, for all the signs which I have done among them?

2-3 Faith of the men of Nineveh

(Jon3:1)And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

(Jon3:2)Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I shall bid thee.

(Jon3:3)And Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.

(Jon3:4)And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!

(Jon3:5)And <the men of Nineveh believed God>, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

(Jon3:6)And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

(Jon3:7)And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water;

(Jon3:8)and let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

(Jon3:9)Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

(Jon3:10)And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them, and he did [it] not.

3 Example of not believing God Jehovah

3-1 Not believing the men of Israel

3-2 Not believing of Moses and Aaron

3-1 Not believing the men of Israel

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(Deu1:20)And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God giveth us.

(Deu1:21)Behold, Jehovah thy God hath set the land before thee: go up, take possession, as Jehovah the God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be dismayed.

(Deu1:26)But ye would not go up, and rebelled against the word of Jehovah your God;

(Deu1:27)and ye <murmured> in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

(Deu1:28)Whither shall we go up? Our brethren <have made our hearts melt>, saying, [They are] a people greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

(Deu1:29)And I said unto you, Be not afraid, neither fear them;

(Deu1:30)Jehovah your God who goeth before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

(Deu1:31)and in the wilderness where thou hast seen that Jehovah thy God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came to this place.

(Deu1:32)But In this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your God,

(Deu1:33)who went in the way before you, to search you out a place for your encamping, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.

(Num13:31)But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.

(Num13:32)And they brought to the children of Israel <an evil report of the land which they had searched out>, saying, The land, which we have passed through to search it out, is a land that eateth up its inhabitants; and all the people that we have seen in it are men of great stature;

(Num13:33)and there have we seen giants -- the sons of Anak are of the giants -- and we were in our sight as grasshoppers, and so we were also in their sight.

(Num14:1)And the whole assembly lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

(Num14:2)And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole assembly said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness would that we had died!

(Num14:3)And why is Jehovah bringing us to this land that we may fall by the sword, that our wives and our little ones may become a prey? Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?

(Num14:4)And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.

(Num14:5)Then Moses and Aaron fell upon their faces before the whole congregation of the assembly of the children of Israel.

(Num14:6)And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of them that searched out the land, rent their garments.

(Num14:7)And they spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it out, is a very, very good land.

(Num14:8)If Jehovah delight in us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land that flows with milk and honey;

(Num14:9)<only rebel not against Jehovah; and fear not the people of the land>; for they shall be our food. Their defence is departed from them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.

(Num14:10)And the whole assembly said that they should be stoned with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Israel.

(Num14:11)And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people <despise me>? and how long will they <not believe me>, for all the signs which I have done among them?

(Num14:12)I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

(Num14:13)And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for in thy might thou broughtest up this people from the midst of them;

(Num14:14)and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land, [who] have heard that thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that thou, Jehovah, lettest thyself be seen eye to eye, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;

(Num14:15)if thou now slayest this people as one man, then the nations that have heard thy fame will speak, saying,

(Num14:16)Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land that he had sworn unto them, he has therefore slain them in the wilderness.

(Num14:17)And now, I beseech thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

(Num14:18)Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in goodness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth [generation].

(Num14:19)Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy loving-kindness, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

(Num14:20)And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word.

(Num14:21)But as surely as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah!

(Num14:22)for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and <have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice>,

(Num14:23)shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of <them that despised me> shall see it.

(Num14:24)But my servant Caleb, because he hath another spirit in him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he came; and his seed shall possess it.

(Num14:25)(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness, on the way to the Red sea.

(Num14:26)And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

(Num14:27)How long [shall I bear] with <this evil assembly, which murmur against me>? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

(Num14:28)Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!

(Num14:29)In this wilderness shall your carcases fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, <who have murmured against me>,

(Num14:30)shall in no wise come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to make you dwell in it; save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

(Num14:31)But your little ones, of whom ye said they should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land that ye have despised.

(Num14:32)And as to you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.

(Num14:33)And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

(Num14:34)After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear <your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement [from you].

(Num14:35)I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it unto all <this evil assembly which have gathered together against me>! in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

(Num14:36)And the men whom Moses had sent to search out the land, who returned, and <made the whole assembly to murmur against him>, by bringing up an evil report upon the land,

(Num14:37)even <those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land>, died by a plague before Jehovah.

(Num14:38)But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, lived still of the men that had gone to search out the land.

(Psa106:24)And <they despised the pleasant land>; <they believed not his word>,

(Psa106:25)But <murmured> in their tents: <they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah>.

(Psa78:10)<They kept not the covenant of God>, and <refused to walk in his law>;

(Psa78:11)And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.

(Psa78:12)In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.

(Psa78:13)He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;

(Psa78:14)And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.

(Psa78:15)He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly;

(Psa78:16)And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

(Psa78:17)Yet they still <went on sinning against him>, provoking the Most High in the desert;

(Psa78:18)And <they tempted God in their heart>, by asking meat for their lust;

(Psa78:19)And <they spoke against God>: they said, Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

(Psa78:20)Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?

(Psa78:21)Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:

(Psa78:22)Because <they believed not in God>, and <confided not in his salvation>;

(Heb3:7)Wherefore, even as says the Holy Spirit, To-day if ye will hear his voice,

(Heb3:8)harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness;

(Heb3:9)where <your fathers tempted [me]>, by proving [me], and saw my works forty years.

(Heb3:10)Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, <They always err in heart>; and *they* have not known my ways;

(Heb3:11)so I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.

(Heb3:12)See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you <a wicked heart of unbelief>, in turning away from [the] living God.

(Heb3:13)But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you <be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin>.

(Heb3:14)For we are become companions of the Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of the assurance firm to the end;

(Heb3:15)in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not <harden your hearts>, as in the provocation;

(Heb3:16)(for who was it, who, having heard, <provoked>? but [was it] not all who came out of Egypt by Moses?

(Heb3:17)And with whom was he wroth forty years? [Was it] not with <those who had sinned>, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

(Heb3:18)And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to <those who had not hearkened to the word>?

(Heb3:19)And we see that they could not enter in <on account of unbelief>;)

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(2ki17:12)and they served idols, as to which Jehovah had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.

(2ki17:13)And Jehovah testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets, all the seers, saying, <Turn from your evil ways>, and <keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the law> which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.

(2ki17:1)In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel, for nine years.

(2ki17:2)And <he did evil in the sight of Jehovah>, but not as the kings of Israel that had been before him.

(2ki17:3)Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant, and tendered him presents.

(2ki17:4)But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and sent up no present to the king of Assyria as [he had done] from year to year. And the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.

(2ki17:5)And the king of Assyria overran the whole land, and went up against Samaria, and besieged it three years.

(2ki17:6)In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

(2ki17:7)And so it was, because <the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God>, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods;

(2ki17:8)and they walked in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

(2ki17:9)And <the children of Israel did secretly against Jehovah their God things that were not right>; and they built them high places in all their cities, from the watchmen's tower to the fortified city.

(2ki17:10)And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;

(2ki17:11)and there they burned incense on all the high places, as did the nations that Jehovah had carried away from before them, and <they wrought wicked things> to provoke Jehovah to anger;

(2ki17:12)and they served idols, as to which Jehovah had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.

(2ki17:13)And Jehovah testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets, all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.

(2ki17:14)But they would not hear, and hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in Jehovah their God.

(2ki17:15)And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.

(2ki17:16)And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of the heavens, and served Baal;

3-2 Not believing of Moses and Aaron

(Num20:7)And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

(Num20:8)Take the staff, and gather the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and <speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, and it shall give its water>; and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock, and shalt give the assembly and their beasts drink.

(Num20:9)And Moses took the staff from before Jehovah, as he had commanded him.

(Num20:10)And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, ye rebels: shall we bring forth to you water out of this rock?

(Num20:11)And <Moses lifted up his hand, and with his staff smote the rock twice>, and much water came out, and the assembly drank, and their beasts.

(Num20:12)And Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, <Because ye believed me not>, to hallow me before the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land that I have given them.

(Num20:13)These are the waters of Meribah, where the children of Israel contended with Jehovah, and he hallowed himself in them.

(Num20:24)Aaron shall be gathered unto his peoples; for he shall not enter into the land that I have given unto the children of Israel, <because ye rebelled against my commandment> at the waters of Meribah.

(Num27:14)because <ye rebelled against my word> in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, as to hallowing me in the matter of the water before their eyes.(That is the water of Meribah at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

(Deu32:51)because ye <trespassed against me> among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye hallowed me not in the midst of the children of Israel.