Hebrews 11:15

Verse 15. And truly if they had been mindful of that country, etc, If they had remembered it with sufficient interest and affection to have made them desirous to return. They might have had opportunity to have returned. The journey was not so long or perilous that they could not have retraced their steps, it would have been no more difficult or dangerous for them to do that than it was to make the journey at first. This shows that their remaining as strangers and sojourners in the land of Canaan was voluntary. They preferred it, with all its inconveniences and hardships, to return to their native land. The same thing is true of all the people of God now.