Hebrews 3:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Who were the people that made God angry for forty years? Weren't they the ones that sinned and died in the desert?

Cross References

Psalm 95:10

Then God got tired of them and said, “You never show good sense, and you don't understand what I want you to do.”

Jeremiah 9:22

“The LORD has told us the ground will be covered with dead bodies, like stalks of ungathered grain or like manure.”

Numbers 14:22

I swear that not one of these Israelites will enter the land I promised to give their ancestors. These people have seen my power in Egypt and in the desert, but they will never see Canaan. They have disobeyed and tested me too many times.

Numbers 14:29

You will die here in the desert, and your dead bodies will cover the ground. You have insulted me, and none of you men who are over twenty years old

Numbers 14:37

So he sent a deadly disease that killed those men,

Jude 1:5

Don't forget what happened to those people that the Lord rescued from Egypt. Some of them did not have faith, and he later destroyed them.