Jeremiah 31:2
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2 Thus says the Lord:
The people who survived the sword
found grace in the wilderness;
when Israel sought for rest,(A)
Psalm 95:11
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11 Therefore in my anger I swore,
“They shall not enter my rest.”(A)
Deuteronomy 1:33
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33 who goes before you on the way to seek out a place for you to camp, in fire by night, and in the cloud by day, to show you the route you should take.’(A)
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Matthew 11:28
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28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.(A)
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Isaiah 63:7-14
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God’s Mercy Remembered
7 I will recount the gracious deeds of the Lord,
the praiseworthy acts of the Lord,
because of all that the Lord has done for us
and the great favor to the house of Israel
that he has shown them according to his mercy,
according to the abundance of his steadfast love.(A)
8 For he said, “Surely they are my people,
children who will not act deceitfully,”
and he became their savior
9 in all their distress.
It was no messenger or angel
but his presence that saved them;
in his love and pity it was he who redeemed them;
he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.(B)
10 But they rebelled
and grieved his holy spirit;
therefore he became their enemy;
he himself fought against them.(C)
11 Then they[a] remembered the days of old,
of Moses his servant.[b]
Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea
with the shepherds of his flock?
Where is the one who put within them
his holy spirit,(D)
12 who caused his glorious arm
to march at the right hand of Moses,
who divided the waters before them
to make for himself an everlasting name,(E)
13 who led them through the depths?
Like a horse in the desert,
they did not stumble.(F)
14 Like cattle that go down into the valley,
the spirit of the Lord gave them rest.
Thus you led your people,
to make for yourself a glorious name.(G)
Numbers 10:33
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33 So they set out from the mount of the Lord three days’ journey with the ark of the covenant of the Lord going before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them,(A)
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Hebrews 4:8-9
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8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God[a] would not speak later about another day. 9 So then, a Sabbath rest still remains for the people of God,
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Ezekiel 20:14-17
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14 But I acted for the sake of my name, so that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out. 15 Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands,(A) 16 because they rejected my ordinances and did not observe my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, for their heart went after their idols.(B) 17 Nevertheless, my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make an end of them in the wilderness.
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Jeremiah 2:2
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2 Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord:
I remember the devotion of your youth,
your love as a bride,
how you followed me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.(A)
Psalm 136:16-24
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16 who led his people through the wilderness,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(A)
who made water flow from the rock,
for his steadfast love endures forever;[a]
17 who struck down great kings,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(B)
18 and killed famous kings,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
19 Sihon, king of the Amorites,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
20 and Og, king of Bashan,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
21 and gave their land as a heritage,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(C)
22 a heritage to his servant Israel,
for his steadfast love endures forever.
23 It is he who remembered us in our low estate,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(D)
24 and rescued us from our foes,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(E)
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- 136.16 Gk: Heb lacks who made water . . . forever
Psalm 105:37-43
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37 Then he brought Israel[a] out with silver and gold,
and there was no one among their tribes who stumbled.(A)
38 Egypt was glad when they departed,
for dread of them had fallen upon it.(B)
39 He spread a cloud for a covering
and fire to give light by night.(C)
40 They asked, and he brought quails
and gave them food from heaven in abundance.(D)
41 He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed through the desert like a river.(E)
42 For he remembered his holy promise
and Abraham, his servant.(F)
43 So he brought his people out with joy,
his chosen ones with singing.
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- 105.37 Heb them
Psalm 78:52
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52 Then he led out his people like sheep
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.(A)
Psalm 78:23-29
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23 Yet he commanded the skies above
and opened the doors of heaven;(A)
24 he rained down on them manna to eat
and gave them the grain of heaven.(B)
25 Mortals ate of the bread of angels;
he sent them food in abundance.
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by his power he led out the south wind;(C)
27 he rained flesh upon them like dust,
winged birds like the sand of the seas;(D)
28 he let them fall within their camp,
all around their dwellings.
29 And they ate and were well filled,
for he gave them what they craved.(E)
Psalm 78:14-16
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14 In the daytime he led them with a cloud
and all night long with a fiery light.(A)
15 He split rocks open in the wilderness
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.(B)
16 He made streams come out of the rock
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
Nehemiah 9:12-15
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12 Moreover, you led them by day with a pillar of cloud and by night with a pillar of fire, to give them light on the way in which they should go.(A) 13 You came down also upon Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,(B) 14 and you made known your holy Sabbath to them and gave them commandments and statutes and a law through Moses your servant.(C) 15 For their hunger you gave them bread from heaven, and for their thirst you brought water for them out of the rock, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you swore to give them.(D)
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Deuteronomy 12:9
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9 for you have not yet come into the rest and the possession that the Lord your God is giving you.
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Deuteronomy 8:16
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16 He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you and in the end to do you good.(A)
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Deuteronomy 8:2-3
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2 Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.(A) 3 He humbled you by letting you hunger, then by feeding you with manna, with which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted, in order to make you understand that one does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.(B)
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Deuteronomy 2:7
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7 Surely the Lord your God has blessed you in all your undertakings; he knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’(A)
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Deuteronomy 1:30
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30 The Lord your God, who goes before you, is the one who will fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your very eyes(A)
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Numbers 14:20
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20 Then the Lord said, “I do forgive, just as you have asked;(A)
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Exodus 33:14
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14 He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”(A)
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Exodus 17:8-13
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Amalek Attacks Israel and Is Defeated
8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.(A) 9 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some men for us and go out; fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”(B) 10 So Joshua did as Moses told him and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses’s hands grew heavy, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on either side, so his hands were steady until the sun set. 13 And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the sword.
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Exodus 15:9-10
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9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue; I will overtake;
I will divide the spoil; my desire shall have its fill of them.
I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’(A)
10 You blew with your wind; the sea covered them;
they sank like lead in the mighty waters.(B)
Exodus 14:8-12
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8 The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the Israelites, who were going out boldly.(A) 9 The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, his chariot drivers and his army; they overtook them camped by the sea, by Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.(B)
10 As Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites looked back, and there were the Egyptians advancing on them. In great fear the Israelites cried out to the Lord.(C) 11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt?(D) 12 Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, ‘Let us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
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