Joshua 5:6

New Century Version

The Israelites had moved about in the desert for forty years. During that time all the fighting men who had left Egypt had died because they had not obeyed the Lord. So the Lord swore they would not see the land he had promised their ancestors to give them, a fertile land.

Cross References

Psalm 107:4

Some people had wandered in the desert lands. They found no city in which to live.

Exodus 3:17

I promised I would take you out of your troubles in Egypt. I will lead you to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a fertile land.’

Exodus 3:8

and I have come down to save them from the Egyptians. I will bring them out of that land and lead them to a good land with lots of room—a fertile land. It is the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Jeremiah 2:2

“Go and speak to the people of Jerusalem, saying: This is what the Lord says: ‘I remember how faithful you were to me when you were a young nation. You loved me like a young bride. You followed me through the desert, a land that had never been planted.

Ezekiel 20:15

And in the desert I swore to the Israelites that I would not bring them into the land I had given them. It is a fertile land, the best land in the world.

Ezekiel 20:6

At that time I promised them I would bring them out of Egypt into a land I had found for them, a fertile land, the best land in the world.

Joel 3:18

“On that day wine will drip from the mountains, milk will flow from the hills, and water will run through all the ravines of Judah. A fountain will flow from the Temple of the Lord and give water to the valley of acacia trees.

Numbers 14:23

So not one of them will see the land I promised to their ancestors. No one who rejected me will see that land.

Numbers 26:63

Moses and Eleazar the priest counted all these people. They counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho.

Deuteronomy 1:3

Forty years after the Israelites had left Egypt, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses told the people of Israel everything the Lord had commanded him to tell them.

Deuteronomy 2:14

It had been thirty-eight years from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, all the fighting men from that time had died, as the Lord had promised would happen.

Deuteronomy 2:7

The Lord your God has blessed everything you have done; he has protected you while you traveled through this great desert. The Lord your God has been with you for the past forty years, and you have had everything you needed.

Deuteronomy 8:4

During these forty years, your clothes did not wear out, and your feet did not swell.

Hebrews 3:11

I was angry and made a promise, ‘They will never enter my rest.’ ”

Joshua 1:6

“Joshua, be strong and brave! You must lead these people so they can take the land that I promised their fathers I would give them.

Joshua 24:7

So the people called out to the Lord. And I brought darkness between you and the Egyptians and made the sea to cover them. You yourselves saw what I did to the army of Egypt. After that, you lived in the desert for a long time.

Joshua 5:5

The men who had come out of Egypt had been circumcised, but none of those who were born in the desert on the trip from Egypt had been circumcised.

Joshua 5:7

Their sons took their places. But none of the sons born on the trip from Egypt had been circumcised, so Joshua circumcised them.