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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And Jehovah will speak to Moses and to Aaron, saying, How long for this evil assembly, that they are murmuring against me? the murmurings of the sons of Israel which they are murmuring against me, I heard. read more. Say to them, I live, says Jehovah, if not as ye spake in mine ears, so will I do to you: In this desert shall your carcasses fall; and all of you being reviewed according to all your number, from the son of twenty years and above, who murmured against me. If ye shall come in to the land which I lifted up my hand for you to dwell in it, except Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun. And your little ones which ye said shall be for a prey, and I brought them in, and they shall know the land which ye rejected And you, your carcasses shall fall in this desert And your sons shall be fed in the desert forty years, and bear your fornications till your carcasses be finished in the desert According to the number of days which ye searched out the land, forty days, a day a year, a day for a year, shall ye your iniquities; forty years, and ye knew my withdrawal. I Jehovah spake, if not, I will do this to all this evil assembly setting up against me: in this desert shall they be finished, and there shall they die.
These the departure of the sons of Israel who will go from the land of Egypt according to their army by the hand of Moses and Aaron. And Moses will write their goings out according to their departures by the mouth of Jehovah: and these their departures according to their goings out read more. And they will remove from Rameses in the first month, in the fifteenth day to the first month: on the morrow of the passover and the sons of Israel went forth with a high hand before the eyes of all the Egyptians. And the Egyptians burying whom Jehovah smote among them, all the first-born: and upon their gods Jehovah did judgments. And the sons of Israel will remove from Rameses, and they will encamp in Succoth. And they will remove from Succoth, and encamp in Etham, which is in the extremity of the desert And they will remove from Etham, and dwell upon the mouth of Hiroth, which is before Baal-Zephon: and they will encamp before Migdol. And they will remove from before Hiroth, and they will pass through the midst of the sea of the desert, and they will go a way of three days in the desert of Etham, and they will encamp in Marah. And they will remove from Marah and will come to Elim: and in Elim twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees; and they will encamp there. And they will remove from Elim, and encamp by the sea of sedge. And they will remove from the sea of sedge, and encamp in the desert of Sin. And they will remove from the desert of Sin, and encamp in Dophkah. And they will remove from Dophkah, and encamp in Alush. And they will remove from Alush, and encamp in Rephidim; and no water was there for the people to drink. And they will remove from Rephidim, and encamp in the desert of Sinai. And they will remove from the desert of Sinai, and encamp in the Sepulchres of Longing. And they will remove from the Sepulchres of Longing, and encamp in Hazeroth. And they will remove from Hazeroth, and encamp in Rithmah. . And they will remove from Rithmah, and encamp in Rimmon-Parez. And they will remove from Rimmon-Parez, and encamp in Libnah. And they will remove from Libnah, and encamp in Rissah. And they will remove from Rissah, and encamp in Kehelathah. And they will remove from Kehelathah, and encamp in mount Shapher. And they will remove from mount Shapher and encamp in Haradah. And they will remove from Haradah, and encamp in Makheloth. And they will remove from Makheloth, and encamp in Tahath. And they will remove from Tahath, and encamp in Tarah. And they will remove from Tarah, and encamp in Mithcah. And they will remove from Mithcah, and encamp in Hashmonah. And they will remove from Hashmonah, and encamp in Moseroth. And they will remove from Moseroth, and encamp among the sons of Jakan. And they will remove from the sons of Jakan, and encamp in the mount of Gidgad. And they will remove from the mount of Gidgad, and encamp in Jotbathah. And they will remove from Jotbathah, and encamp in Ebionah. And they will remove from Ebionah, and encamp in Ezion-Gaber. And they will remove from EzionGaber, and encamp in the desert of Zin; it Kadesh. And they will remove from Kadesh, and encamp in mount Hor, in the extremity of the land of Edom. And Aaron the priest will go up to mount Hor by the mouth of Jehovah, and will die there in the fortieth year to the coming out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt., in the fifth month, in one to the month. And Aaron the son of three and twenty and a hundred years in his dying in mount Hor. And the Canaanite, king Arad, will hear, and he will dwell in the south in the land Canaan, in the coming of the sons of Israel. And they will remove from mount Hor, and encamp in Zalmonah. And they will remove from Zalmonah, and encamp in Punon. And they will remove from Pinion, and encamp in Oboth. And they will remove from Oboth, and encamp in the heaps of Abarim, in the bound of Moab. And they will remove from the heaps, and encamp in DibonGad. And they will remove from DibonGad, and encamp in Almon-Diblathaim. And they will remove from Almon-Diblathaim, and encamp in the mountains of Abarim before Nebo. And they will remove from the mountains of Abarim, and encamp in the desert of Moab by Jordan of Jericho. And they will encamp by Jordan, from the house of Jesimoth, to the meadow of acacias in the desert of Moab.
And the people came up out of Jordan in the tenth to the first month, and they will encamp in Gilgal, in the extremity of the sunrising of Jericho.
For forty years the sons of Israel went in the desert till all the people of the men of war coming out of Egypt were finished, who heard not to the voice of Jehovah: which Jehovah sware to them, not for them to see the land which Jehovah sware to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing milk and honey.
Confess ye to Jehovah, for he is good, his mercy is forever. They being redeemed of Jehovah shall say, Which he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. read more. And he gathered them from the lands, from the sunrisings and from the west, from the north and from the sea. They will wander in the desert in a waste; the way of a city of dwelling they found not Hungering, also thirsting, their soul will faint in them. And they will cry to Jehovah in straits to them, and he will deliver them from their distresses. And he will cause them to tread in a straight way, to go to a city of dwelling.
He will set rivers to a desert, and the findings of waters to thirst; A land of fruit to saltness, for the evil of those dwelling in it read more. He will set a desert for pools of water, and a land of dryness for findings of water.