Numbers 32:13
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13 So the Lord’s anger was aroused against Israel, and He made them (A)wander in the wilderness forty years, until (B)all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.
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1 Corinthians 10:5
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5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies (A)were scattered in the wilderness.
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Numbers 14:33-35
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33 And your sons shall (A)be [a]shepherds in the wilderness (B)forty years, and (C)bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. 34 (D)According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, (E)forty days, for each day you shall bear your [b]guilt one year, namely forty years, (F)and you shall know My [c]rejection. 35 (G)I the Lord have spoken this. I will surely do so to all (H)this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.’ ”
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- Numbers 14:33 Vg. wanderers
- Numbers 14:34 iniquity
- Numbers 14:34 opposition
Hebrews 3:16-19
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Failure of the Wilderness Wanderers
16 (A)For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, (B)whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And (C)to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of (D)unbelief.
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Deuteronomy 2:14-15
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14 And the time we took to come (A)from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, (B)until all the generation of the men of war [a]was consumed from the midst of the camp, (C)just as the Lord had sworn to them. 15 For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they [b]were consumed.
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- Deuteronomy 2:14 perished
- Deuteronomy 2:15 perished
Numbers 26:64-65
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64 (A)But among these there was not a man of those who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the children of Israel in the (B)Wilderness of Sinai. 65 For the Lord had said of them, “They (C)shall surely die in the wilderness.” So there was not left a man of them, (D)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
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Psalm 78:33
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33 (A)Therefore their days He consumed in futility,
And their years in fear.
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