Bible Verses About Journey of Israel Through The Desert

They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.

In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.

The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.

At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.

They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,

to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.

At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.

For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.