The probation in the wilderness. The promise was forfeited by those to whom it was first conditionally made, but was renewed to their children.

The children rebelled. —The history of the wanderings in the wilderness, given in Exodus and Numbers, offers abundant illustration…

I join these four verses together because they have already been explained, and I do not wish to burden you with useless repetitions.

In sho…

Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me
After the death of their fathers, when they were come into the plai…