PSALM—NOTE ON Psalms 106:24 The sad list now moves to what happened when the 12 spies returned from their mission to scout out the land that God had promised (Numbers 13:32). Ten of them gave a bad report, which led Israel to give in to fear. As a result, they refused God’s command to enter the land to conquer it (Psalms 106:24). This section closes with a worrying indication about the singers’ current situation: just as God made the Israelites fall in the wilderness, so he would make their offspring fall among the nations, scattering them among the lands (see v. Psalms 106:47).

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