Reference: Wandering
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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 the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. read more. Say unto them, As truly as I live, says the LORD, as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you: Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me, Doubtless you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. But your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised. But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your harlotries, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my displeasure. I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. And Moses wrote their starting points of their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their starting points. read more. And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; the next day after the passover the children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians. For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments. And the children of Israel set out from Rameses, and encamped at Succoth. And they departed from Succoth, and encamped at Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. And they set out from Etham, and turned again unto Pihahiroth, which is east of Baalzephon: and they encamped before Migdol. And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped at Marah. And they set out from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and three score and ten palm trees; and they encamped there. And they set out from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea. And they set out from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped at Dophkah. And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped at Alush. And they set out from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. And they departed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai. And they set out from the desert of Sinai, and encamped at Kibrothhattaavah. And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth. And they departed from Hazeroth, and encamped at Rithmah. And they departed from Rithmah, and encamped at Rimmonperez. And they departed from Rimmonperez, and encamped at Libnah. And they set out from Libnah, and encamped at Rissah. And they journeyed from Rissah, and encamped at Kehelathah. And they went from Kehelathah, and encamped at mount Shepher. And they set out from mount Shepher, and encamped at Haradah. And they set out from Haradah, and encamped at Makheloth. And they set out from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath. And they departed from Tahath, and encamped at Terah. And they set out from Terah, and encamped at Mithkah. And they went from Mithkah, and encamped at Hashmonah. And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth. And they departed from Moseroth, and encamped at Benejaakan. And they set out from Benejaakan, and encamped at Horhaggidgad. And they went from Horhaggidgad, and encamped at Jotbathah. And they set out from Jotbathah, and encamped at Abronah. And they departed from Abronah, and encamped at Eziongeber. And they set out from Eziongeber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. And they set out from Kadesh, and encamped at mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom. And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month. And Aaron was a hundred and twenty and three years old when he died on mount Hor. And king of Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. And they departed from mount Hor, and encamped at Zalmonah. And they departed from Zalmonah, and encamped at Punon. And they departed from Punon, and encamped at Oboth. And they departed from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, at the border of Moab. And they departed from Iyim, and encamped at Dibongad. And they set out from Dibongad, and encamped at Almondiblathaim. And they set out from Almondiblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho. And they encamped by the Jordan, from Bethjeshimoth even unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.
And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD swore that he would not show them the land, which the LORD swore unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.
O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endures forever. Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy; read more. And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
He turns rivers into a wilderness, and the water springs into dry ground; A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. read more. He turns the wilderness into a pool of water, and dry ground into water springs.