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 Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmurs against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel which they murmur against Me. read more. Say to them, As I live, says Jehovah, as you have spoken in My ears, so I will do to you. Your dead bodies 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, you shall certainly not come into the land which I swore to make you live in, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. But your little ones, which you said should be a prey, I will bring them in and they shall know the land which you have despised. But as for you, your bodies shall fall in this wilderness. And your sons shall feed in the wilderness forty years and bear your fornications, until your dead bodies have wasted in the wilderness. According to the number of the days in which you searched the land, forty days, each day for a year you shall bear your iniquities, forty years; and you shall know My alienation. I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be destroyed in this wilderness, and there they shall die.
These are the journeys of the sons 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 goings out according to their journeys by the command of Jehovah. And these are their journeys according to their starting-places. read more. And they pulled up stakes from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the next day after the Passover the sons of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians. For the Egyptians buried all their first-born whom Jehovah had stricken among them. Jehovah also executed judgments upon their gods. And the sons of Israel pulled up stakes from Rameses and pitched in Succoth. And they pulled up stakes from Succoth and pitched in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. And they pulled up stakes from Etham and turned again to Pihahiroth which is in front of Baal-zephon. And they pitched in front of Migdol. And they pulled up stakes from before Pihahiroth and passed through the middle of the Sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah. And they pulled up stakes from Marah and came to Elim. And in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees. And they pitched there. And they pulled up stakes from Elim and pitched by the Red Sea. And they pulled up stakes from the Red Sea and pitched in the wilderness of Sin. And they pulled up stakes from of the wilderness of Sin and pitched in Dophkah. And they pulled up stakes from Dophkah and pitched in Alush. And they pulled up stakes from Alush and pitched at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. And they pulled up stakes from Rephidim and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai. And they pulled up stakes from the wilderness of Sinai and pitched at The Graves of Lust. And they pulled up stakes from The Graves of Lust and pitched at Hazeroth. And they pulled up stakes from Hazeroth and pitched in Rithmah. And they pulled up stakes from Rithmah and pitched at Rimmon-parez. And they pulled up stakes from Rimmon-parez and pitched in Libnah. And they pulled up stakes from Libnah and pitched at Rissah. And they pulled up stakes from Rissah and pitched in the Meeting Place. And they pulled up stakes from The Meeting Place and pitched in Mount Shapher. And they pulled up stakes from Mount Shapher and pitched in Haradah. And they pulled up stakes from Haradah and pitched in Makheloth And they pulled up stakes from Makheloth and pitched at Tahath. And they pulled up stakes from Tahath and pitched at Tarah. And they pulled up stakes from Tarah and pitched in Mithcah. And they pulled up stakes from Mithcah and pitched in Hashmonah. And they pulled up stakes from Hashmonah and pitched at Moseroth. And they pulled up stakes from Moseroth and pitched in Bene-jaakan. And they pulled up stakes from Bene-jaakan and pitched at the Hole of the Cleft. And they pulled up stakes from the Hole of the Cleft and pitched in Jotbathah. And they pulled up stakes from Jotbathah and pitched at Ebronah. And they pulled up stakes from Ebronah and pitched at Ezion-geber. And they pulled up stakes from Ezion-geber and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. And they pulled up stakes from Kadesh and pitched in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom. And Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of Jehovah and died there, in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come up out of the land of Egypt, in the first of the fifth month. And Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hor. And King Arad the Canaanite, who lived in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the sons of Israel. And they pulled up stakes from Mount Hor and pitched in Zalmonah. And they pulled up stakes from Zalmonah and pitched in Punon. And they pulled up stakes from Punon and pitched in Oboth. And they pulled up stakes from Oboth and pitched in Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab. And they pulled up stakes from Iim and pitched in Dibon-gad. And they pulled up stakes from Dibon-gad and pitched in Almon-diblathaim. And they pulled up stakes from Almon-diblathaim and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. And they pulled up stakes from the mountains of Abarim and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan at Jericho. And they pitched by Jordan, from The House of Deserts to The Meadow of Acacias in the plains of Moab.
And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and camped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the people, the men of war, who came out of Egypt, were destroyed, because they did not obey the voice of Jehovah. To them Jehovah swore that He would not show them the land which Jehovah swore to their fathers that He would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.
O give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever. Let the redeemed of Jehovah 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 desert by the way; they found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried to Jehovah in their distress, and He delivered them out of their troubles. And He guided them by the right way, so as to go to a city to live in.
He sets rivers to a wilderness and water-springs to thirsty ground; a fruitful land to a salty desert, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it. read more. He turns the wilderness into water-ponds, and dry ground into water-springs.