Deuteronomy 9:23

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Deuteronomy 9:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible

21 And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

22 You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.

23 And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.

24 You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.

25 So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

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Deuteronomy 1:19

And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,

Deuteronomy 1:20

I said: “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.

Deuteronomy 1:21

See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”

Deuteronomy 1:22

Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”

Deuteronomy 1:23

The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

Deuteronomy 1:24

They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied out the land.

Deuteronomy 1:25

They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

Deuteronomy 1:26

But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 1:27

You grumbled in your tents and said, “Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be annihilated.

Deuteronomy 1:28

Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”

Deuteronomy 1:29

So I said to you: “Do not be terrified or afraid of them!

Deuteronomy 1:30

The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt

Deuteronomy 1:31

and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”

Deuteronomy 1:32

But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,

Deuteronomy 1:33

who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.

Numbers 13:1

And the LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 13:2

“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”

Numbers 13:3

So at the consent of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,

Numbers 13:4

and these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;

Numbers 13:5

from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;

Numbers 13:6

from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

Numbers 13:7

from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;

Numbers 13:8

from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;

Numbers 13:9

from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;

Numbers 13:10

from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;

Numbers 13:11

from the tribe of Manasseh (a tribe of Joseph), Gaddi son of Susi;

Numbers 13:12

from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;

Numbers 13:13

from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;

Numbers 13:14

from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi;

Numbers 13:15

and from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi.

Numbers 13:16

These were the names of the men Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses gave to Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.

Numbers 13:17

When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.

Numbers 13:18

See what the land is like and whether its people are strong or weak, few or many.

Numbers 13:19

Is the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?

Numbers 13:20

Is the soil fertile or unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous, and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)

Numbers 13:21

So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.

Numbers 13:22

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

Numbers 13:23

When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.

Numbers 13:24

Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.

Numbers 13:25

After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,

Numbers 13:26

and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 13:27

And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!

Numbers 13:28

Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

Numbers 13:29

The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”

Numbers 13:30

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly conquer it!”

Numbers 13:31

But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”

Numbers 13:32

So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.

Numbers 13:33

We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”

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 14:10

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!

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

Psalms 78:22

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

Psalms 106:24

They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

Psalms 106:25

They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

Hebrews 3:18

And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

Hebrews 3:19

So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.

Hebrews 4:2

For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.