Despising God's Gifts
A. Maclaren, D.D. Psalm 106:24-31 Yes, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:… There can be no greater slight and dishonour to a giver than to have his gifts neglected. You give something that has perhaps cost you much, or which, at any rate, has your heart in it, to your child, or other dear one; would it not wound you, if a day or two after you found it tossing about among a heap of unregarded trifles? Suppose that some of those Rajahs that received presents on the recent royal visit to India had gone out from the durbar and flung them into the kennel, that would have been an insult and disaffection, would it not? But these illustrations are trivial by the side of our treatment of the "giving God." (A. Maclaren, D.D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: WEB: Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn't believe his word,