I also gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Do all that I command so that good things will happen to you.
They heard the sound of the trumpet but didn’t do anything. So they are to blame for their own deaths. If they had done something, they would have saved their own lives.
“Blessed are those who wash their robes so that they will receive the right to eat the fruit from the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.