Bible Cross References
they sinned
Numbers 14:1-45
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All night long the people cried out in distress.
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They complained against Moses and Aaron, and said, "It would have been better to die in Egypt or even here in the wilderness!
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Why is the LORD taking us into that land? We will be killed in battle, and our wives and children will be captured. Wouldn't it be better to go back to Egypt?"
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So they said to one another, "Let's choose a leader and go back to Egypt!"
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Then Moses and Aaron bowed to the ground in front of all the people.
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And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, two of the spies, tore their clothes in sorrow
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and said to the people, "The land we explored is an excellent land.
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If the LORD is pleased with us, he will take us there and give us that rich and fertile land.
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Do not rebel against the LORD and don't be afraid of the people who live there. We will conquer them easily. The LORD is with us and has defeated the gods who protected them; so don't be afraid."
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The whole community was threatening to stone them to death, but suddenly the people saw the dazzling light of the LORD's presence appear over the Tent.
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The LORD said to Moses, "How much longer will these people reject me? How much longer will they refuse to trust in me, even though I have performed so many miracles among them?
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I will send an epidemic and destroy them, but I will make you the father of a nation that is larger and more powerful than they are!"
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But Moses said to the LORD, "You brought these people out of Egypt by your power. When the Egyptians hear what you have done to your people,
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they will tell it to the people who live in this land. These people have already heard that you, LORD, are with us, that you appear in plain sight when your cloud stops over us, and that you go before us in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
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Now if you kill all your people, the nations who have heard of your fame will say
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that you killed your people in the wilderness because you were not able to bring them into the land you promised to give them.
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So now, LORD, I pray, show us your power and do what you promised when you said,
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'I, the LORD, am not easily angered, and I show great love and faithfulness and forgive sin and rebellion. Yet I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their parents.'
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And now, LORD, according to the greatness of your unchanging love, forgive, I pray, the sin of these people, just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt."
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The LORD answered, "I will forgive them, as you have asked.
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But I promise that as surely as I live and as surely as my presence fills the earth,
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none of these people will live to enter that land. They have seen the dazzling light of my presence and the miracles that I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, but they have tried my patience over and over again and have refused to obey me.
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They will never enter the land which I promised to their ancestors. None of those who have rejected me will ever enter it.
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But because my servant Caleb has a different attitude and has remained loyal to me, I will bring him into the land which he explored, and his descendants will possess the land
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in whose valleys the Amalekites and the Canaanites now live. Turn back tomorrow and go into the wilderness in the direction of the Gulf of Aqaba."
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The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
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"How much longer are these wicked people going to complain against me? I have heard enough of these complaints!
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Now give them this answer: 'I swear that as surely as I live, I will do to you just what you have asked. I, the LORD, have spoken.
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You will die and your corpses will be scattered across this wilderness. Because you have complained against me, none of you over twenty years of age will enter that land.
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I promised to let you live there, but not one of you will, except Caleb and Joshua.
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You said that your children would be captured, but I will bring them into the land that you rejected, and it will be their home.
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You will die here in this wilderness.
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Your children will wander in the wilderness for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last one of you dies.
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You will suffer the consequences of your sin for forty years, one year for each of the forty days you spent exploring the land. You will know what it means to have me against you!
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I swear that I will do this to you wicked people who have gathered together against me. Here in the wilderness every one of you will die. I, the LORD, have spoken.' "
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The men Moses had sent to explore the land brought back a false report which caused the people to complain against the LORD. And so the LORD struck them with a disease, and they died.
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Of the twelve spies only Joshua and Caleb survived.
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When Moses told the Israelites what the LORD had said, they mourned bitterly.
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Early the next morning they started out to invade the hill country, saying, "Now we are ready to go to the place which the LORD told us about. We admit that we have sinned."
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But Moses said, "Then why are you disobeying the LORD now? You will not succeed!
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Don't go. The LORD is not with you, and your enemies will defeat you.
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When you face the Amalekites and the Canaanites, you will die in battle; the LORD will not be with you, because you have refused to follow him."
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Yet they still dared to go up into the hill country, even though neither the LORD's Covenant Box nor Moses left the camp.
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Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived there attacked and defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hormah.
Numbers 16:1-17
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Korah son of Izhar, from the Levite clan of Kohath, rebelled against the leadership of Moses. He was joined by three members of the tribe of Reuben---Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth---and by 250 other Israelites, well-known leaders chosen by the community.
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They assembled before Moses and Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! All the members of the community belong to the LORD, and the LORD is with all of us. Why, then, Moses, do you set yourself above the LORD's community?"
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When Moses heard this, he threw himself on the ground and prayed.
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Then he said to Korah and his followers, "Tomorrow morning the LORD will show us who belongs to him; he will let the one who belongs to him, that is, the one he has chosen, approach him at the altar.
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Tomorrow morning you and your followers take fire pans, put live coals and incense on them, and take them to the altar. Then we will see which of us the LORD has chosen. You Levites are the ones who have gone too far!"
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Moses continued to speak to Korah. "Listen, you Levites!
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Do you consider it a small matter that the God of Israel has set you apart from the rest of the community, so that you can approach him, perform your service in the LORD's Tent, and minister to the community and serve them?
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He has let you and all the other Levites have this honor---and now you are trying to get the priesthood too!
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When you complain against Aaron, it is really against the LORD that you and your followers are rebelling."
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Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, but they said, "We will not come!
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Isn't it enough that you have brought us out of the fertile land of Egypt to kill us here in the wilderness? Do you also have to lord it over us?
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You certainly have not brought us into a fertile land or given us fields and vineyards as our possession, and now you are trying to deceive us. We will not come!"
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Moses became angry and said to the LORD, "Do not accept any offerings these men bring. I have not wronged any of them; I have not even taken one of their donkeys."
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Moses said to Korah, "Tomorrow you and your 250 followers must come to the Tent of the LORD's presence; Aaron will also be there.
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Each of you will take his fire pan, put incense on it, and then present it at the altar."
Numbers 21:1-6
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When the Canaanite king of Arad in the southern part of Canaan heard that the Israelites were coming by way of Atharim, he attacked them and captured some of them.
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Then the Israelites made a vow to the LORD: "If you will let us conquer these people, we will unconditionally dedicate them and their cities to you and will destroy them."
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The LORD heard them and helped them conquer the Canaanites. So the Israelites completely destroyed them and their cities, and named the place Hormah.
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The Israelites left Mount Hor by the road that leads to the Gulf of Aqaba, in order to go around the territory of Edom. But on the way the people lost their patience
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and spoke against God and Moses. They complained, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We can't stand any more of this miserable food!"
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Then the LORD sent poisonous snakes among the people, and many Israelites were bitten and died.
Numbers 25:1-18
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When the Israelites were camped at Acacia Valley, the men began to have sexual intercourse with the Moabite women who were there.
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These women invited them to sacrificial feasts, where the god of Moab was worshiped. The Israelites ate the food and worshiped the god
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Baal of Peor. So the LORD was angry with them
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and said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of Israel and, in obedience to me, execute them in broad daylight, and then I will no longer be angry with the people."
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Moses said to the officials, "Each of you is to kill every man in your tribe who has become a worshiper of Baal of Peor."
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One of the Israelites took a Midianite woman into his tent in the sight of Moses and the whole community, while they were mourning at the entrance of the Tent of the LORD's presence.
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When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up and left the assembly. He took a spear,
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followed the man and the woman into the tent, and drove the spear through both of them. In this way the epidemic that was destroying Israel was stopped,
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but it had already killed twenty-four thousand people.
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The LORD said to Moses,
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"Because of what Phinehas has done, I am no longer angry with the people of Israel. He refused to tolerate the worship of any god but me, and that is why I did not destroy them in my anger.
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So tell him that I am making a covenant with him that is valid for all time to come.
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He and his descendants are permanently established as priests, because he did not tolerate any rivals to me and brought about forgiveness for the people's sin."
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The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the head of a family in the tribe of Simeon.
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The woman's name was Cozbi. Zur, her father, was chief of a group of Midianite clans.
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The LORD commanded Moses,
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"Attack the Midianites and destroy them,
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because of the evil they did to you when they deceived you at Peor, and because of Cozbi, who was killed at the time of the epidemic at Peor."
Ezekiel 20:13
But even in the desert they defied me. They broke my laws and rejected my commands, which bring life to anyone who obeys them. They completely profaned the Sabbath. I was ready to let them feel the force of my anger there in the desert and to destroy them.
believed
Psalm 78:22
because they had no faith in him and did not believe that he would save them.
Luke 16:31
But Abraham said, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone were to rise from death.' "
John 12:37
Even though he had performed all these miracles in their presence, they did not believe in him,