Acts 7:36

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Acts 7:34–38 · Berean Standard Bible

34 I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’

35 This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

36 He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.

37 This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

38 He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.

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Exodus 12:41

At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 33:1

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of the land of Egypt, and go to the land that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’

Exodus 7:1

The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

Exodus 7:2

You are to speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.

Exodus 7:3

But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,

Exodus 7:4

Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and by mighty acts of judgment I will bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 7:5

And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”

Exodus 7:6

So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them.

Exodus 7:7

Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Exodus 7:8

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

Exodus 7:9

“When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a serpent.”

Exodus 7:10

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.

Exodus 7:11

But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.

Exodus 7:12

Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.

Exodus 7:13

Still, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.

Exodus 7:14

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.

Deuteronomy 4:33

Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 4:34

Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?

Deuteronomy 4:35

You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

Deuteronomy 4:36

He let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.

Deuteronomy 4:37

Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

Deuteronomy 6:21

then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 6:22

Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.

Nehemiah 9:10

You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.

Psalms 78:12

He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

Psalms 78:13

He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

Psalms 78:42

They did not remember His power — the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

Psalms 78:43

when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

Psalms 78:44

He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.

Psalms 78:45

He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

Psalms 78:46

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Psalms 78:47

He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

Psalms 78:48

He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

Psalms 78:49

He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels.

Psalms 78:50

He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

Psalms 78:51

He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.

Psalms 105:27

They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

Psalms 105:28

He sent darkness, and it became dark— yet they defied His words.

Psalms 105:29

He turned their waters to blood and caused their fish to die.

Psalms 105:30

Their land teemed with frogs, even in their royal chambers.

Psalms 105:31

He spoke, and insects swarmed— gnats throughout their country.

Psalms 105:32

He gave them hail for rain, with lightning throughout their land.

Psalms 105:33

He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.

Psalms 105:34

He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.

Psalms 105:35

They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.

Psalms 105:36

Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.

Psalms 106:8

Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.

Psalms 106:9

He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

Psalms 106:10

He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Psalms 106:11

The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.

Psalms 135:8

He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, of both man and beast.

Psalms 135:9

He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.

Psalms 135:10

He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:

Psalms 135:11

Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.

Psalms 135:12

He gave their land as an inheritance, as a heritage to His people Israel.

Psalms 136:9

the moon and stars to govern the night. His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 136:10

He struck down the firstborn of Egypt His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 136:11

and brought Israel out from among them His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 136:12

with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 136:13

He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 136:14

and led Israel through the midst, His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 136:15

but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His loving devotion endures forever.

Exodus 14:21

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,

Exodus 14:27

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.

Exodus 14:28

The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

Exodus 14:29

But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

Exodus 15:23

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)

Exodus 15:24

So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

Exodus 15:25

And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,

Exodus 16:1

On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.

Exodus 16:2

And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 16:3

“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”

Exodus 16:4

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.

Exodus 16:5

Then on the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”

Exodus 16:6

So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “This evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt,

Exodus 16:7

and in the morning you will see the LORD’s glory, because He has heard your grumbling against Him. For who are we that you should grumble against us?”

Exodus 16:8

And Moses added, “The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and bread to fill you in the morning, for He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD.”

Exodus 16:9

Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole congregation of Israel, ‘Come before the LORD, for He has heard your grumbling.’”

Exodus 16:10

And as Aaron was speaking to the whole congregation of Israel, they looked toward the desert, and there in a cloud the glory of the LORD appeared.

Exodus 16:11

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Exodus 16:12

“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”

Exodus 16:13

That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

Exodus 16:14

When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground.

Exodus 16:15

When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.

Exodus 16:16

This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”

Exodus 16:17

So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less.

Exodus 19:1

In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.

Exodus 19:2

After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

Exodus 19:3

Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, “This is what you are to tell the house of Jacob and explain to the sons of Israel:

Exodus 19:4

‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.

Exodus 19:5

Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

Exodus 19:6

And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”

Exodus 19:7

So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him.

Exodus 19:8

And all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the LORD has spoken.” So Moses brought their words back to the LORD.

Exodus 19:9

The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in you.” And Moses relayed to the LORD what the people had said.

Exodus 19:10

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes

Exodus 19:11

and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

Exodus 19:12

And you are to set up a boundary for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful not to go up on the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 19:13

No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast, he must not live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”

Exodus 19:14

When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.

Exodus 19:15

“Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”

Exodus 19:16

On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

Exodus 19:17

Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

Exodus 19:18

Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

Exodus 19:19

And as the sound of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the thunder.

Exodus 19:20

The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,

Numbers 9:15

On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.

Numbers 9:16

It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day, and at night it would appear like fire.

Numbers 9:17

Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent, the Israelites would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp.

Numbers 9:18

At the LORD’s command the Israelites set out, and at the LORD’s command they camped. As long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle, they remained encamped.

Numbers 9:19

Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the Israelites kept the LORD’s charge and did not set out.

Numbers 9:20

Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days, and they would camp at the LORD’s command and set out at the LORD’s command.

Numbers 9:21

Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they would set out. Whether it was by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up, they would set out.

Numbers 9:22

Whether the cloud lingered for two days, a month, or longer, the Israelites camped and did not set out as long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle; but when it was lifted, they would set out.

Numbers 9:23

They camped at the LORD’s command, and they set out at the LORD’s command; they carried out the LORD’s charge according to His command through Moses.

Numbers 11:1

Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

Numbers 11:2

And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

Numbers 11:3

So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.

Numbers 11:4

Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

Numbers 11:6

But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”

Numbers 11:7

Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.

Numbers 11:8

The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.

Numbers 11:9

When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

Numbers 11:10

Then Moses heard the people of family after family weeping at the entrances to their tents, and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was also displeased.

Numbers 11:11

So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?

Numbers 11:12

Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

Numbers 11:13

Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

Numbers 11:14

I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.

Numbers 11:15

If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

Numbers 11:16

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.

Numbers 11:17

And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.

Numbers 11:18

And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.

Numbers 11:19

You will eat it not for one or two days, nor for five or ten or twenty days,

Numbers 11:20

but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

Numbers 11:21

But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’

Numbers 11:22

If all our flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

Numbers 11:23

The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not My word will come to pass.”

Numbers 11:24

So Moses went out and relayed to the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered seventy of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.

Numbers 11:25

Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so again.

Numbers 11:26

Two men, however, had remained in the camp—one named Eldad and the other Medad—and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those listed, but they had not gone out to the tent, and they prophesied in the camp.

Numbers 11:27

A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

Numbers 11:28

Joshua son of Nun, the attendant to Moses since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”

Numbers 11:29

But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”

Numbers 11:30

Then Moses returned to the camp, along with the elders of Israel.

Numbers 11:31

Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp.

Numbers 11:32

All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.

Numbers 11:33

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.

Numbers 11:34

So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

Numbers 11:35

From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth, where they remained for some time.

Numbers 14:1

Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.

Numbers 14:2

All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

Numbers 14:3

Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

Numbers 14:4

So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

Numbers 14:5

Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.

Numbers 14:6

Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes

Numbers 14:7

and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.

Numbers 14:8

If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.

Numbers 14:9

Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”

Numbers 14:10

But the whole congregation threatened to stone Joshua and Caleb. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 14:11

And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

Numbers 14:12

I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”

Numbers 14:13

But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.

Numbers 14:14

And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

Numbers 14:15

If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

Numbers 14:16

‘Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’

Numbers 14:17

So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:

Numbers 14:18

‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’

Numbers 14:19

Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”

Numbers 14:20

“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.

Numbers 14:21

“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,

Numbers 14:22

not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—

Numbers 14:23

not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.

Numbers 14:24

But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.

Numbers 14:25

Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”

Numbers 14:26

Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

Numbers 14:27

“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.

Numbers 14:28

So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

Numbers 14:29

Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

Numbers 14:30

Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Numbers 14:31

But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

Numbers 14:32

As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.

Numbers 14:33

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:34

In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.

Numbers 14:35

I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”

Numbers 14:36

So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—

Numbers 14:37

those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.

Numbers 14:38

Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.

Numbers 14:39

And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.

Numbers 14:40

Early the next morning they got up and went up toward the ridge of the hill country. “We have indeed sinned,” they said, “but we will go to the place the LORD has promised.”

Numbers 14:41

But Moses said, “Why are you transgressing the commandment of the LORD? This will not succeed!

Numbers 14:42

Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.

Numbers 14:43

For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”

Numbers 14:44

But they dared to go up to the ridge of the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of the LORD moved from the camp.

Numbers 14:45

Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.

Numbers 16:1

Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath son of Levi, along with some Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—conducted

Numbers 16:2

a rebellion against Moses, along with 250 men of Israel renowned as leaders of the congregation and representatives in the assembly.

Numbers 16:3

They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”

Numbers 16:4

When Moses heard this, he fell facedown.

Numbers 16:5

Then he said to Korah and all his followers, “Tomorrow morning the LORD will reveal who belongs to Him and who is holy, and He will bring that person near to Himself. The one He chooses, He will bring near to Himself.

Numbers 16:6

You, Korah, and all your followers are to do as follows: Take censers,

Numbers 16:7

and tomorrow you are to place fire and incense in them in the presence of the LORD. Then the man the LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. It is you sons of Levi who have taken too much upon yourselves!”

Numbers 16:8

Moses also said to Korah, “Now listen, you sons of Levi!

Numbers 16:9

Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel and brought you near to Himself to perform the work at the LORD’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them?

Numbers 16:10

He has brought you near, you and all your fellow Levites, but you are seeking the priesthood as well.

Numbers 16:11

Therefore, it is you and all your followers who have conspired against the LORD! As for Aaron, who is he that you should grumble against him?”

Numbers 16:12

Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come!

Numbers 16:13

Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?

Numbers 16:14

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”

Numbers 16:15

Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not regard their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”

Numbers 16:16

And Moses said to Korah, “You and all your followers are to appear before the LORD tomorrow—you and they and Aaron.

Numbers 16:17

Each man is to take his censer, place incense in it, and present it before the LORD—250 censers. You and Aaron are to present your censers as well.”

Numbers 20:1

In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

Numbers 20:2

Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron.

Numbers 20:3

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!

Numbers 20:4

Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

Numbers 20:5

Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”

Numbers 20:6

Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. They fell facedown, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.

Numbers 20:7

And the LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 20:8

“Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.”

Numbers 20:9

So Moses took the staff from the LORD’s presence, just as he had been commanded.

Numbers 20:10

Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen now, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”

Numbers 20:11

Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were able to drink.

Numbers 20:12

But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”

Numbers 20:13

These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His holiness among them.

Numbers 20:14

From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to tell the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says: You know all the hardship that has befallen us,

Numbers 20:15

how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,

Numbers 20:16

and when we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.

Numbers 20:17

Please let us pass through your land. We will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”

Numbers 20:18

But Edom answered, “You may not travel through our land, or we will come out and confront you with the sword.”

Numbers 20:19

“We will stay on the main road,” the Israelites replied, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay for it. There will be no problem; only let us pass through on foot.”

Numbers 20:20

But Edom insisted, “You may not pass through.” And they came out to confront the Israelites with a large army and a strong hand.

Numbers 20:21

So Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.

Deuteronomy 2:25

This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”

Deuteronomy 2:26

So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,

Deuteronomy 2:27

“Let us pass through your land; we will stay on the main road. We will not turn to the right or to the left.

Deuteronomy 2:28

You can sell us food to eat and water to drink in exchange for silver. Only let us pass through on foot,

Deuteronomy 2:29

just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

Deuteronomy 2:30

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.

Deuteronomy 2:31

Then the LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”

Deuteronomy 2:32

So Sihon and his whole army came out for battle against us at Jahaz.

Deuteronomy 2:33

And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army.

Deuteronomy 2:34

At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.

Deuteronomy 2:35

We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.

Deuteronomy 2:36

From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

Deuteronomy 2:37

But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.

Deuteronomy 8:4

Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

Nehemiah 9:12

You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.

Nehemiah 9:13

You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.

Nehemiah 9:14

You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.

Nehemiah 9:15

In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to give them.

Nehemiah 9:18

Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,

Nehemiah 9:19

You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

Nehemiah 9:20

You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.

Nehemiah 9:21

For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

Nehemiah 9:22

You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.

Psalms 78:14

He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.

Psalms 78:15

He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.

Psalms 78:16

He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.

Psalms 78:17

But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

Psalms 78:18

They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

Psalms 78:19

They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psalms 78:20

When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”

Psalms 78:21

Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,

Psalms 78:22

because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

Psalms 78:23

Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.

Psalms 78:24

He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.

Psalms 78:25

Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

Psalms 78:26

He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.

Psalms 78:27

He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

Psalms 78:28

He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.

Psalms 78:29

So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.

Psalms 78:30

Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

Psalms 78:31

God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.

Psalms 78:32

In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

Psalms 78:33

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

Psalms 105:39

He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.

Psalms 105:40

They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

Psalms 105:41

He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.

Psalms 105:42

For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.

Psalms 105:43

He brought forth His people with rejoicing, His chosen with shouts of joy.

Psalms 105:44

He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,

Psalms 105:45

that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!

Psalms 106:17

The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

Psalms 106:18

Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.

Psalms 136:16

He led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 136:17

He struck down great kings His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 136:18

and slaughtered mighty kings— His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 136:19

Sihon king of the Amorites His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 136:20

and Og king of Bashan— His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 136:21

and He gave their land as an inheritance, His loving devotion endures forever.