Numbers 14:33

God Promises Judgment

³² But your bodies will drop dead in this desert. ³³ Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness. ³⁴ You explored the land for forty days. So for forty years, one year for each day, you will suffer for your sins and know what it means for me to be against you.'

Forty Years

In the Wilderness

In The Desert

Numbers 32:13

Jehovah's anger blazed against the Israelites. Therefore he made them wander in the desert for forty years until the whole generation of those who had done evil in Jehovah's presence was gone.

Deuteronomy 2:14

This was thirty-eight years after we left Kadesh-Barnea. By that time all the men who had been in the army at Kadesh-Barnea had died, just as Jehovah said they would.

Psalm 107:40

He poured contempt on their influential people and made them stumble around in a pathless desert.

Ezekiel 23:35

Therefore, the Lord Jehovah says: 'Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, bear now the punishment of your lewdness and your acts of prostitution.'

Numbers 5:31

The husband is not guilty of doing anything wrong. But the woman will suffer the consequences of her sin.

Numbers 33:38

Jehovah commanded Aaron the priest to go up on Mount Hor. He died there on the first day of the fifth month in the fortieth year after the Israelites left Egypt.

Deuteronomy 1:3

It was the fortieth year, eleventh month, on the first day of the month. Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all the commandments Jehovah (YHWH) gave him for them.

Joshua 14:10

Jehovah has kept me alive, as he said, these forty-five years, even since Jehovah spoke this word to Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness. Now I am this day eighty-five years old.

Psalm 107:4

They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way. They found no city to live in.

Jeremiah 3:1-2

It is said: If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband should not go back to her again. The land would become completely polluted. You have behaved like a prostitute who has many lovers. Now you want to come back to me! Says Jehovah.

Ezekiel 23:45-49

But they, righteous men, will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

Hosea 9:1

O Israel, do not rejoice. Do not celebrate as pagan nations do. You have been unfaithful to your God. You have sold sex on every threshing floor.