Bible Verses About Journey of Israel Through The Desert

In the desert they gave way to insatiable greed; in the wastelands they put God to the test.

He gave them what they wanted but sent meagerness into their souls.

In the camp they were jealous of Moshe and Aharon, ADONAI's holy one.

The earth opened up and swallowed Datan and closed over Aviram's allies.

A fire blazed out against that group, the flames consumed the wicked.

In Horev they fashioned a calf, they worshipped a cast metal image.

Thus they exchanged their Glory for the image of an ox that eats grass!

They forgot God, who had saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,

wonders in the land of Ham, fearsome deeds by the Sea of Suf.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, [and he would have,] had not Moshe his chosen one stood before him in the breach to turn back his destroying fury.

Next, they rejected the beautiful land, they didn't trust his promise;

and they complained in their tents, they didn't obey ADONAI.

Therefore, raising his hand, he swore to them that he would strike them down in the desert

and strike down their descendants among the nations, dispersing them in foreign lands.

Now they joined themselves to Ba'al-P'or and ate meat sacrificed to dead things.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds, so that a plague broke out among them.

Then Pinchas stood up and executed judgment; so the plague was checked.

That was credited to him as righteousness, through all generations forever.

They angered him at the M'rivah Spring, and Moshe suffered on their account;

for when they embittered his spirit, [Moshe] spoke up without thinking.

They failed to destroy the peoples, as ADONAI had ordered them to do,

but mingled with the nations and learned to follow their ways.

They went on to serve their idols, which became a snare for them.

They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

Yes, they shed innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to Kena'an's false gods, polluting the land with blood.