Reference: Wandering
Easton
of the Israelites in the wilderness in consequence of their rebellious fears to enter the Promised Land (Nu 14:26-35). They wandered for forty years before they were permitted to cross the Jordan (Jos 4:19; 5:6).
The record of these wanderings is given in Nu 33:1-49. Many of the stations at which they camped cannot now be identified.
Questions of an intricate nature have been discussed regarding the "Wanderings," but it is enough for us to take the sacred narrative as it stands, and rest assured that "He led them forth by the right way" (Ps 107:1-7,33-35). (See Wilderness.)
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How long, as regardeth this evil assembly, re they to be murmuring against me? The murmuring of the sons of Israel which, they, have been murmuring against me, have I heard, Say unto them: As I live, is the oracle of Yahweh: Surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so, will I do unto you: - read more. In this desert, shall your dead bodies fall And none of you who were numbered in all your counting, from twenty years old and upwards, - who have murmured against me, none of you, shall enter into the land, as to which I uplifted my hand to give you an abode therein, - save Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun: whereas, your little ones, of whom ye said, they should become, a prey, I will bring them in, and they shall acknowledge the land which ye refused. But, your own dead bodies, shall fall in this desert; and your sons, shall be shepherds in the desert forty years, and shall bear your unchastities, - until your dead bodies are consumed in the desert. By the number of the days wherein ye spied out the land - forty days, each day for a year, shall they bear your iniquities - forty years, - so shall ye know my opposition. I - Yahweh, have spoken, Verily this, will I do to all this evil assembly, who have conspired against me, - In this desert, shall they be consumed And there, shall they die.
These, are the departures of the sons of Israel whereby they came forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts, - in the hand of Moses and Aaron. And Moses wrote their coming forth by their departures, at the bidding of Yahweh, - and these, are their departures by their comings forth. read more. So then they brake up from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the morrow of the passover, came forth the sons of Israel with an uplifted hand, in the sight of all the Egyptians; when the Egyptians, were burying them whom Yahweh had smitten among them, every firstborn, - when, upon their gods, Yahweh had executed judgments, Thus then the sons of Israel brake up from Rameses, - and encamped in Succoth. And they brake up from Succoth, - and encamped in Etham, which is at the edge of the desert. And they brake up from Etham, and turned upon Pi-hahiroth, which is over against Baal-zephon, - and encamped before Migdol. And they brake up from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea towards the desert, - and went their way a journey of three days in the desert of Etham, and encamped in Marah. And they brake up from Marah, and came in towards Elim; there being, in Elim, twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm-tree, so they encamped there. And they brake up from Elim, - and encamped by the Red Sea. And they brake up from the Red Sea, - and encamped in the desert of Sin. And they brake up from the desert of Sin, - and encamped in Dophkah. And they brake up from Dophkah, - and encamped in Alush. And they brake up from Alush, - and encamped in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink. And they brake up from Rephidim, - and encamped in the desert of Sinai. And they brake up from the desert of Sinai, - and encamped in Kibroth-hattaavah. And they brake up from Kibroth-hattaavah, - and encamped in Hazeroth. And they brake up from Hazeroth, - and encamped in Rithmah. And they brake up from Rithmah, - and encamped in Rimmon-perez. And they brake up from Rimmon-perez, - and encamped in Libnah. And they brake up from Libnah, - and encamped in Rissah. And they brake up from Rissah, - and encamped in Kehelathah. And they brake up from Kehelathah, - and encamped in Mount Shepher. And they brake up from Mount Shepher, - and encamped in Haradah. And they brake up from Haradah, - and encamped in Makheloth. And they brake up from Makheloth, - and encamped in Tahath. And they brake up from Tahath, - and encamped in Terah. And they brake up from Terah, - and encamped in Mithkah. And they brake up from Mithkah, - and encamped in Hashmonah. And they brake up from Hashmonah, - and encamped in Moseroth. And they brake up from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene-jaakan. And they brake up from Bene-jaakan, and encamped in Hor-haggidgad. And they brake up from Hor-haggidgad, - and encamped in Jotbathah, - And they brake up from Jotbathah, - and en-camped in Abronah. And they brake up from Abronah, - and encamped in Eziongeber. And they brake up from Eziongeber, - and encamped in the desert of Zin, the same, is Kadesh. And they brake, up from Kadesh, - and encamped in Mount Hor, on the outskirts of the land of Edom; and Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor, at the bidding of Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year, by the coming forth of the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first of the month. Now, Aaron, was a hundred and twenty-three years old, when he died in Mount Hor. And a Canaanite king of Arad, who was dwelling in the South, in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming in of the sons of Israel. And, they brake up from Mount Hor, - and encamped in Zalmonah. And they brake up from Zalmonah, - and encamped in Punon. And they brake up from Punon, and encamped in Oboth. And they brake up from Oboth, - and encamped in Iye-abarim, within the bounds of Moab. And they brake up from Iyim, - and encamped in Dibon-gad. And they brake up from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim. And they brake up from Almon-diblathaim, - and encamped among the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. And they brake up from the mountains of Abarim, - and encamped in the waste plains of Moab, by Jordan neat Jericho. Thus did they encamp by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth unto Abel-Shittim that is, "The acacia - meadows"- in the waste plains of Moab.
So, the people, came up out of the Jordan, on the tenth of the first month, - and encamped in Gilgal, at the eastern end of Jericho.
Because, for forty years, did the sons of Israel journey in the desert, until all the nation who were men of war, who came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice of Yahweh, - unto whom Yahweh sware that he would not let them see the land, which Yahweh sware unto their fathers, that he would give unto us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
BOOK THE FIFTHO give thanks to Yahweh - For he is good, For, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness. Let the redeemed of Yahweh say, Whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary; read more. And, out of the lands, hath gathered them - From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south. They wandered about in the desert - in a waste, Way to a city to dwell in, found they none; Hungry - yea thirsty, their soul, within them, fainted: Then made they outcry to Yahweh, in their peril, Out of their distresses, he rescued them; And led them by a straight road, That they might journey to a city to dwell in.
He turneth Rivers into a desert, and, Springs of Water, into thirsty ground, A Land of Fruit, into a waste of salt, For the wickedness of them who dwell therein. read more. He turneth A Desert, into a pool of water, and, A Parched Land into springs of water;