Bible Verses About Journey of Israel Through The Desert

Then Moses spake vnto the Lord, saying,

Let the Lord God of the spirits of all flesh appoint a man ouer the Congregation,

Who may goe out and in before them, and leade them out and in, that the Congregation of the Lord be not as sheepe, which haue not a shepheard.

And the Lord said vnto Moses, Take thee Ioshua the sonne of Nun, in whom is the Spirite, and put thine handes vpon him,

And set him before Eleazar the Priest, and before all the Congregation, and giue him a charge in their sight.

And giue him of thy glory, that all the Congregation of ye children of Israel may obey.

And he shall stande before Eleazar the Priest, who shall aske counsell for him by the iudgement of Vrim before the Lord: at his worde they shall goe out, and at his worde they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him and all the Congregation.

So Moses did as the Lord had commanded him, and he tooke Ioshua, and set him before Eleazar the Priest, and before all the Congregation.

Then he put his handes vpon him, and gaue him a charge, as the Lord had spoken by the hand of Moses.

And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

Reuenge the children of Israel of the Midianites, and afterwarde shalt thou be gathered vnto thy people.

And Moses spake to the people, saying, Harnesse some of you vnto warre, and let them goe against Midian, to execute the vengeance of the Lord against Midian.

A thousande of euery tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye sende to the warre.

So there were taken out of the thousands of Israel, twelue thousande prepared vnto warre, of euery tribe a thousand.

And Moses sent them to the warre, euen a thousand of euery tribe, and sent them with Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the Priest to the warre: and the holy instruments, that is, the trumpets to blow were in his hand.

And they warred against Midian, as the Lord had commanded Moses, and slue all the males.

They slue also the Kings of Midian among them that were slaine: Eui and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur and Reba fiue kings of Midian, and they slue Balaam the sonne of Beor with the sworde:

But the children of Israel tooke the women of Midian prisoners, and their children, and spoyled all their cattell, and all their flockes, and all their goods.

And they burnt all their cities, wherein they dwelt, and all their villages with fire.

And they tooke all the spoyle and all the pray both of men and beastes.

And they brought the captiues and that which they had taken, and the spoyle vnto Moses and to Eleazar the Priest, and vnto the Congregation of the children of Israel, into ye campe in the playne of Moab, which was by Iorden toward Iericho.

Then Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and all the princes of the Congregation went out of the campe to meete them.

And Moses was angry with the captaines of the hoste, with the captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreds, which came from the warre and battel.

And Moses sayde vnto them, What? haue ye saued all the women?

Behold, these caused the children of Israel through the counsell of Balaam to commit a trespasse against the Lord, as concerning Peor, and there came a plague among the Congregation of the Lord.