“Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the Lord, we will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.”
Then you answered and said to me, 'We have sinned against the LORD; we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God has commanded us' -- the people's repentance seems genuine; they acknowledge sin. Yet their willingness to fight now, after the faithlessness of earlier, reveals incomplete understanding. True repentance would entail accepting the wilderness sentence; their eagerness to fight suggests they want to overturn God's judgment.
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