Deuteronomy 1:26

24 ^aAnd they departed and went up into the mountains, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

25 They also took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought back word to us, saying, ‘It is a ^agood land which the Lord our God is giving us.’

26 ^a“Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God;

27 and you ^acomplained in your tents, and said, ‘Because the Lord ^bhates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

28 Where can we go up? Our brethren have¹ discouraged our hearts, saying, ^a“The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the ^bAnakim there.” ’

29 “Then I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, ^aor afraid of them.

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Israel never really trusted God. Breaking the sixth commandment was merely the next step in the process of sin. Having committed the sin of doubt, they went on to commit the sin of war. God was determined to work out His purpose to give the land to Abraham and his descendants. Israel chose to be a war-making nation, but because God's purpose must stand regardless of what men do, he continued to back Israel in their conquest of the land and ordered wars.

John W. Ritenbaugh
The Sixth Commandment (Part 2): War! (1997)

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