Numbers 14:33

God Promises Judgment

³² But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, ³³ and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness. ³⁴ According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days -- one day for a year -- you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.

Forty Years

In the Wilderness

In The Desert

Numbers 32:13

So the Lord's anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the Lord was finished.

Deuteronomy 2:14

Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.

Psalm 107:40

He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.

Ezekiel 23:35

"Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you have forgotten me and completely disregarded me, you must bear now the punishment for your obscene conduct and prostitution."

Numbers 5:31

Then the man will be free from iniquity, but that woman will bear the consequences of her iniquity.'"

Numbers 33:38

Aaron the priest ascended Mount Hor at the command of the Lord, and he died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt on the first day of the fifth month.

Deuteronomy 1:3

However, it was not until the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year that Moses addressed the Israelites just as the Lord had instructed him to do.

Joshua 14:10

So now, look, the Lord has preserved my life, just as he promised, these past forty-five years since the Lord spoke these words to Moses, during which Israel traveled through the wilderness. Now look, I am today eighty-five years old.

Psalm 107:4

They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live.

Jeremiah 3:1-2

"If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?" says the Lord.

Ezekiel 23:45-49

But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

Hosea 9:1

O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly like the nations, for you are unfaithful to your God. You love to receive a prostitute's wages on all the floors where you thresh your grain.