Numbers 14:33

God's Word

Your children will be shepherds in the desert for 40 years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies dead in the desert.

Cross References

Psalm 107:4

They wandered around the desert on a deserted road without finding an inhabited city.

Psalm 107:40

He poured contempt on their influential people and made them stumble around in a pathless desert.

Psalm 78:33

He brought their days to an end like a whisper in the wind. He brought their years to an end in terror.

Exodus 20:5

Never worship them or serve them, because I, the Lord your God, am a God who does not tolerate rivals. I punish children for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

Ezekiel 23:35

“This is what the Almighty Lord says: You have forgotten me and turned your back on me. So you will be punished for your sinning and prostitution.”

Hosea 9:1

Israel, don’t rejoice. Don’t celebrate as other nations do. You have been unfaithful to your God. You have sold sex on every threshing floor.

Numbers 32:13

Since the Lord was angry with the Israelites, he made them wander in the desert for 40 years until the whole generation of those who had done evil in the Lord’s presence was gone.

Numbers 33:38

At the Lord’s command the priest Aaron went up on Mount Hor. He died there on the first day of the fifth month in the fortieth year after the Israelites had left Egypt.

Numbers 5:31

The husband isn’t guilty of doing anything wrong, but the woman will suffer the consequences of her sin.”

Acts 7:36

This is the man who led our ancestors out of Egypt. He is the person who did amazing things and worked miracles in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the desert for 40 years.

Deuteronomy 1:3

On the first day of the eleventh month in the fortieth year ⌞after they had left Egypt⌟, Moses told the Israelites everything the Lord had commanded him to tell them.

Deuteronomy 2:14

Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered River. During that time all our soldiers from that generation died, as the Lord had sworn they would.

Deuteronomy 2:7

The Lord your God has blessed you in everything you have done. He has watched over you as you traveled through this vast desert. For 40 years now the Lord your God has been with you, and you haven’t needed a thing.

Deuteronomy 29:5

For 40 years I led you through the desert. During that time your clothes and shoes never wore out.

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember that for 40 years the Lord your God led you on your journey in the desert. He did this in order to humble you and test you. He wanted to know whether or not you would wholeheartedly obey his commands.

Deuteronomy 8:4

Your clothes didn’t wear out, and your feet didn’t swell these past 40 years.

Joshua 14:10

“So look at me. The Lord has kept me alive as he promised. It’s been 45 years since Israel wandered in the desert when the Lord made this promise to Moses. So now look at me today. I’m 85 years old.

Joshua 5:6

For 40 years the Israelites wandered through the desert until all their soldiers who left Egypt died. They died because they disobeyed the Lord. The Lord swore that he would not let them see this land flowing with milk and honey which he had sworn to give our ancestors.