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Numbers 14:37

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They died because they had returned and made the whole community complain about Moses by spreading lies about the land.

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They will not come near you, even though a thousand may fall dead beside you or ten thousand at your right side.

The Lord says: I will punish Shemaiah from Nehelam. I will also punish his descendants. No one from his family will be left alive. He will not see the blessings that I’m going to send my people, declares the Lord, because he has encouraged rebellion against the Lord.’ ”

A fire flashed from the Lord and burned them, and they died in the presence of the Lord.

So they began to spread lies among the Israelites about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored is one that devours those who live there. All the people we saw there are very tall.

I’ll strike them with a plague, I’ll destroy them, and I’ll make you into a nation larger and stronger than they are.”

Of all the men who went to explore the land, only Joshua (son of Nun) and Caleb (son of Jephunneh) survived.

Fire came from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were offering incense.

Still, 14,700 died from the plague in addition to those who had died because of Korah.

The people complained to Moses and said, “If only we had died when the other Israelites died in the Lord’s presence!

The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If it had not turned away from me, I would certainly have killed you by now but spared the donkey.”

However, 24,000 people died from that plague.

Don’t complain as some of them did. The angel of death destroyed them.

Yet, God was not pleased with most of them, so their dead bodies were scattered over the desert.

With whom was God angry for 40 years? He was angry with those who sinned and died in the desert.

Who did God swear would never enter his place of rest? He was talking about those who didn’t obey him.

I want to remind you about what you already know: The Lord once saved his people from Egypt. But on another occasion he destroyed those who didn’t believe.




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