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 spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, "How long shall this evil multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel which they murmur against me. read more. Tell them that the LORD sayeth, 'As truly as I live, I will do unto you even as ye have spoken in mine ears. Your carcasses shall lie in this wilderness, neither shall any of these numbers which were numbered from twenty years and above of you which have murmured against me come in to the land over which I lifted mine hand to make you dwell therein - save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. And your children, which ye said should be a prey: them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have refused, and your carcases shall lie in this wilderness. And your children shall wander in this wilderness forty years and suffer for your whoredom until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness, after the number of the days in which ye searched out the land forty days, and every day a year: so that they shall bear your unrighteousness forty years, and ye shall feel my vengeance. I, the LORD, have said that I will do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me: even in this wilderness ye shall be consumed, and here ye shall die."
These are the journeys of the children of Israel which went out of the land of Egypt with their armies under Moses and Aaron. And Moses wrote their goings out by their journeys at the commandment of the LORD: even these are the journeys of their goings out. read more. The children of Israel departed from Rameses the fifteenth day of the first month, on the morrow after Passover and went out with a high hand in the sight of all Egypt, while the Egyptians buried all their firstborn which the LORD had smoten among them. And upon their gods also the LORD did execution. And the children of Israel removed from Rameses and pitched in Succoth. And they departed from Succoth and pitched their tents in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. And they removed from Etham and turned unto the entering of Hiroth which is before Baalzephon, and pitched before Migdol. And they departed from before Hiroth and went through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah. And they removed from Marah and went unto Elim where were twelve fountains and seventy palm trees and they pitched there. And they removed from Elim and lay fast by the reed sea. And they removed from the reed sea and lay in the wilderness of Zin. And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Zin, and set up their tents in Dophkah. And they departed from Dophkah, and lay in Alush. And they removed from Alush, and lay at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink. And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai. And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and lodged at the graves of lust. And they departed from the sepulchres of lust, and lay at Hazeroth. And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah. And departed from Rithmah and pitched at Rimmonperez. And they departed from Rimmonperez, and pitched in Libnah. And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah. And they journeyed from Rissah and pitched at Kehelathah. And they went from Kehelatha, and pitched in mount Shepher. And they removed from mount Shepher, and lay in Harada. And they removed from Harada, and pitched in Makheloth. And they removed from Makheloth, and lay at Tahath, and they departed from Tahath and pitched at Tarah. And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithkah. And they went from Mithkah, and lodged in Hashmonah. And they departed from Hashmonah, and lay at Moseroth. And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched among the children of Jaakan. And they removed from the children of Jaakan, and lay at Horhaggidgad. And they went from Horhaggidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah. And they removed from Jotbathah, and lay at Abronah. And they departed from Abronah, and lay at Eziongeber. And they removed from Eziongeber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in 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, even in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, and in the first day of the fifth month. And Aaron was a hundred and thirty three years old when he died in mount Hor. And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south of the land of Canaan, heard that the children of Israel were come. And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah. And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon, and they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth. And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Iyeabarim in the borders of Moab. And they departed from Iyeabarim and pitched in Dibongad. And they removed from Dibongad, and lay in Almondiblathaim. And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim before Nebo. And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the fields of Moab fast by Jordan nigh to Jericho. And they pitched upon Jordan, from Bethjeshimoth unto the plain of Shittim in the fields of Moab.
And the people came up out of Jordan the tenth day of the first month and pitched in Gilgal even in the east borders of Jericho.
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people of men of war that came out of Egypt were consumed, which hearkened not unto the voice of God; so that the LORD sware, that he would not show them the land which the LORD sware unto their fathers, that he would give us even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
I give thanks unto the LORD, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth forever. Let them give thanks whom the LORD hath redeemed, and delivered 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 went astray in the wilderness in an untrodden way, and found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. So they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to the city where they dwelt.
which turneth floods into dry land, and drieth up the watersprings! A fruitful land maketh he barren, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. read more. Again, he maketh the wilderness a standing water, and watersprings of a dry ground.