Acts 13:18
For a period of about forty years He put up with their behavior in the wilderness.
Acts 7:36
This man led them out [of Egypt] after performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
Deuteronomy 9:7
Remember [with remorse] and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day you left the land of Egypt until you arrived in this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.
Deuteronomy 9:21-24
I took your sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it in the fire and thoroughly crushed it, grinding the metal thoroughly until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.
Exodus 16:2
The whole congregation of the Israelites [grew discontented and] murmured and rebelled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,
Exodus 16:35
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they reached an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
Numbers 14:22
Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My [miraculous] signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,
Numbers 14:33-34
Your sons shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness (spiritual infidelity), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 1:31
and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried and protected you, just as a man carries his son, all along the way which you traveled until you arrived at this place.’
Nehemiah 9:16-21
“But they, our fathers, acted arrogantly;
They stiffened their necks and would not heed Your commandments.
Psalm 78:17-42
Yet they still continued to sin against Him
By rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
Psalm 95:8-11
Do not harden your hearts and become spiritually dull as at Meribah [the place of strife],
And as at Massah [the place of testing] in the wilderness,
Psalm 106:13-29
But they quickly forgot His works;
They did not [patiently] wait for His counsel and purpose [to be revealed regarding them],
Ezekiel 20:10-17
So I made them leave the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.
Amos 5:25-26
“Did you bring Me sacrifices and grain offerings during those forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? [Certainly not!]
Acts 7:39-43
Our fathers were unwilling to be subject to him [and refused to listen to him]. They rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
1 Corinthians 10:1-10
For I do not want you to be unaware, believers, that our fathers were all under the cloud [in which God’s presence went before them] and they all passed [miraculously and safely] through the [Red] Sea;
Hebrews 3:7-10
Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,
Hebrews 3:16-19
For who were they who heard and yet provoked Him [with rebellious acts]? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
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“But they, our fathers, acted arrogantly;
They stiffened their necks and would not heed Your commandments.
Yet they still continued to sin against Him
By rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
Do not harden your hearts and become spiritually dull as at Meribah [the place of strife],
And as at Massah [the place of testing] in the wilderness,
But they quickly forgot His works;
They did not [patiently] wait for His counsel and purpose [to be revealed regarding them],