Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
Ver. 24. Yea, they despised the pleasant land] Heb. The land of desire, flowing with milk and honey, sumen totius terrae, as one calleth it; Egypt they preferred before it, though it were a gage of heaven; as Cardinal Bourbon did his part in Paris, before his part in paradise.
They believed not his word] sc. That he would, or indeed could, give them that good land. He that believeth not maketh God a liar.