Hebrews 3:17

New International Reader's Version

Who was God angry with for 40 years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned? They died in the desert.

Cross References

Psalm 95:10

For 40 years I was angry with them. I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray. They do not know how I want them to live.’

Jeremiah 9:22

Say, “The Lord announces, “ ‘Dead bodies will be like human waste lying in the open fields. They will lie there like grain that is cut down at harvest time. No one will gather them up.’ ”

Numbers 14:22

And here is what you can be just as sure of. Not one of these people will see the land I promised to give them. They have seen my glory. They have seen the signs I did in Egypt. And they have seen what I did in the desert. But they did not obey me. And they have tested me ten times.

Numbers 14:28

So tell them, ‘Here is what I am announcing. I am the Lord. You can be sure that I live. And here is what you can be just as sure of. I will do to you the very thing that I heard you say.

Numbers 14:29

You will die in this desert. Every one of you 20 years old or more will die. Every one of you who was counted in the list of the people will die. Every one of you who has spoken out against me will be wiped out.

Numbers 14:37

Those men were to blame for spreading the bad report. So the Lord struck them down. They died of a plague.

Jude 1:5

I want to remind you about some things you already know. The Lord saved his people. At one time he brought them out of Egypt. But later he destroyed those who did not believe.