Numbers 14
Never ones to let a good opportunity to complain pass, the Israelites blame Moses and Aaron for the fact that the land is not empty with people who are going to roll over and move out of the way .
The thing that really winds God up is that they decide to fins a new leader and head back to Egypt.
Only Joshua and Caleb among the spies give any encouragement, they say that God will lead the people into the land and give them possession leaving the current inhabitants without protection.
This does little to encourage the people, who start talking about stoning Moses and anybody who supports him.
God again tells Moses that he will wipe out the Israelites and make a great nation out of Moses descendants. Moses (not for the first time) pleads with God that it would look bad to the Egyptians that God would not be able to
God forgives the Israelites but will not give this generation that grumbled access to the promised land, they will wander in the wilderness until every person over the age of 20 at the time of the census will die (Apart from Joshua and Caleb) before they enter the promised land.
The spies all die of a mysterious illness, apart from Caleb and Joshua.
The Israelites decide that they have made a bit of a mistake by refusing to enter the land and decide to enter anyway after God told them that he would not give them the land - some of them attempt an invasion but are easily repulsed by the locals
.
Never ones to let a good opportunity to complain pass, the Israelites blame Moses and Aaron for the fact that the land is not empty with people who are going to roll over and move out of the way .
The thing that really winds God up is that they decide to fins a new leader and head back to Egypt.
Only Joshua and Caleb among the spies give any encouragement, they say that God will lead the people into the land and give them possession leaving the current inhabitants without protection.
This does little to encourage the people, who start talking about stoning Moses and anybody who supports him.
God again tells Moses that he will wipe out the Israelites and make a great nation out of Moses descendants. Moses (not for the first time) pleads with God that it would look bad to the Egyptians that God would not be able to
God forgives the Israelites but will not give this generation that grumbled access to the promised land, they will wander in the wilderness until every person over the age of 20 at the time of the census will die (Apart from Joshua and Caleb) before they enter the promised land.
The spies all die of a mysterious illness, apart from Caleb and Joshua.
The Israelites decide that they have made a bit of a mistake by refusing to enter the land and decide to enter anyway after God told them that he would not give them the land - some of them attempt an invasion but are easily repulsed by the locals
.
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