Bible Verses About Journey of Israel Through The Desert

Moshe said to ADONAI,

"Let ADONAI, God of the spirits of all human beings, appoint a man to be over the community,

to go out and come in ahead of them, to lead them out and bring them in, so that ADONAI's community will not be like sheep without a shepherd."

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Take Y'hoshua the son of Nun, a spiritual man, and lay your hand on him.

Put him in front of El'azar the cohen and the whole community, and commission him in their sight.

Delegate to him some of your authority, so that the entire community of Isra'el will obey him.

He is to present himself to El'azar the cohen, who is to find out by means of the urim what ADONAI's will is for Y'hoshua's decisions. Then, at his word they will go out, and at his word they will come in, both he and all the people of Isra'el with him, the whole community."

Moshe did as ADONAI had ordered him. He took Y'hoshua, put him before El'azar the cohen and the whole community,

laid his hands on him, and commissioned him, as ADONAI had said through Moshe.

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"On behalf of the people of Isra'el, take vengeance on the Midyanim. After that, you will be gathered to your people."

Moshe said to the people, "Equip men from among yourselves for war. They are to go and fight Midyan, in order to carry out ADONAI's vengeance on Midyan.

You are to send to the war a thousand men from every one of Isra'el's tribes."

So out of the thousands of people in Isra'el, a thousand armed men from each tribe, 12,000 altogether, were mustered for war.

Moshe sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the war; he sent them and Pinchas the son of El'azar the cohen to the war, with the holy utensils and the trumpets for sounding the alarm in his care.

They fought against Midyan, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe, and killed every male.

They killed the kings of Midyan along with the others who were slain - Evi, Rekem, Tzur, Hur and Reva, the five kings of Midyan. They also killed Bil'am the son of B'or with the sword.

The people of Isra'el took captive the women of Midyan and their little ones, and they took as booty all their cattle, flocks and other goods.

They set fire to all their cities in the areas where they lived and all their camps.

They took all the booty, all the people and animals they had captured,

and brought the captives, booty and spoil to Moshe, El'azar the cohen and the community of Isra'el in the camp on the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden across from Yericho.

Moshe, El'azar the cohen and all the community leaders went to meet them outside the camp.

But Moshe was angry with the army officers, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds coming in from the battlefield.

Moshe asked them, "You let the women live?

Why, these are the ones who - because of Bil'am's advice -caused the people of Isra'el to rebel, breaking faith with ADONAI in the P'or incident, so that the plague broke out among ADONAI's community!