Bible Cross References
Likewise
Deuteronomy 1:19-33
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"We did what the LORD our God commanded us. We left Mount Sinai and went through that vast and fearful desert on the way to the hill country of the Amorites. When we reached Kadesh Barnea,
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I told you, 'You have now come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God, the God of our ancestors, is giving us. Look, there it is. Go and occupy it as he commanded. Do not hesitate or be afraid.'
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"But you came to me and said, 'Let's send men ahead of us to spy out the land, so that they can tell us the best route to take and what kind of cities are there.'
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"That seemed like a good thing to do, so I selected twelve men, one from each tribe.
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They went into the hill country as far as Eshcol Valley and explored it.
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They brought us back some fruit they found there, and reported that the land which the LORD our God was giving us was very fertile.
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"But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God, and you would not enter the land.
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You grumbled to one another: 'The LORD hates us. He brought us out of Egypt just to hand us over to these Amorites, so that they could kill us.
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Why should we go there? We are afraid. The men we sent tell us that the people there are stronger and taller than we are, and that they live in cities with walls that reach the sky. They saw giants there!'
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"But I told you, 'Don't be afraid of those people.
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The LORD your God will lead you, and he will fight for you, just as you saw him do in Egypt
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and in the desert. You saw how he brought you safely all the way to this place, just as a father would carry his son.'
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But in spite of what I said, you still would not trust the LORD,
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even though he always went ahead of you to find a place for you to camp. To show you the way, he went in front of you in a pillar of fire by night and in a pillar of cloud by day.
Numbers 13:1-33
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The LORD said to Moses,
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"Choose one of the leaders from each of the twelve tribes and send them as spies to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites."
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Moses obeyed and from the wilderness of Paran he sent out leaders, as follows: (Tribe: Leader); Reuben: Shammua son of Zaccur; Simeon: Shaphat son of Hori; Judah: Caleb son of Jephunneh; Issachar: Igal son of Joseph; Ephraim: Hoshea son of Nun; Benjamin: Palti son of Raphu; Zebulun: Gaddiel son of Sodi; Manasseh: Gaddi son of Susi; Dan: Ammiel son of Gemalli; Asher: Sethur son of Michael; Naphtali: Nahbi son of Vophsi; Gad: Geuel son of Machi
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These are the spies Moses sent to explore the land. He changed the name of Hoshea son of Nun to Joshua.
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When Moses sent them out, he said to them, "Go north from here into the southern part of the land of Canaan and then on into the hill country.
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Find out what kind of country it is, how many people live there, and how strong they are.
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Find out whether the land is good or bad and whether the people live in open towns or in fortified cities.
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Find out whether the soil is fertile and whether the land is wooded. And be sure to bring back some of the fruit that grows there." (It was the season when grapes were beginning to ripen.)
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So the men went north and explored the land from the wilderness of Zin in the south all the way to Rehob, near Hamath Pass in the north.
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They went first into the southern part of the land and came to Hebron, where the clans of Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of a race of giants called the Anakim, lived. (Hebron was founded seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
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They came to Eshcol Valley, and there they cut off a branch which had one bunch of grapes on it so heavy that it took two men to carry it on a pole between them. They also brought back some pomegranates and figs.
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(That place was named Eshcol Valley because of the bunch of grapes the Israelites cut off there.)
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After exploring the land for forty days, the spies returned
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to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had brought.
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They told Moses, "We explored the land and found it to be rich and fertile; and here is some of its fruit.
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But the people who live there are powerful, and their cities are very large and well fortified. Even worse, we saw the descendants of the giants there.
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Amalekites live in the southern part of the land; Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and Canaanites live by the Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan River."
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Caleb silenced the people who were complaining against Moses, and said, "We should attack now and take the land; we are strong enough to conquer it."
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But the men who had gone with Caleb said, "No, we are not strong enough to attack them; the people there are more powerful than we are."
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So they spread a false report among the Israelites about the land they had explored. They said, "That land doesn't even produce enough to feed the people who live there. Everyone we saw was very tall,
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and we even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. We felt as small as grasshoppers, and that is how we must have looked to them."
ye rebelled
Numbers 14:1-4
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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!"
Numbers 14:10-41
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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!
Isaiah 63:10
but they rebelled against him and made his holy spirit sad. So the LORD became their enemy and fought against them.
ye believed
Deuteronomy 1:32
But in spite of what I said, you still would not trust the LORD,
Deuteronomy 1:33
even though he always went ahead of you to find a place for you to camp. To show you the way, he went in front of you in a pillar of fire by night and in a pillar of cloud by day.
Psalm 78:22
because they had no faith in him and did not believe that he would save them.
Psalm 106:24
Then they rejected the pleasant land, because they did not believe God's promise.
Psalm 106:25
They stayed in their tents and grumbled and would not listen to the LORD.
Hebrews 3:18
When God made his solemn promise, "They will never enter the land where I would have given them rest"---of whom was he speaking? Of those who rebelled.
Hebrews 3:19
We see, then, that they were not able to enter the land, because they did not believe.
Hebrews 4:2
For we have heard the Good News, just as they did. They heard the message, but it did them no good, because when they heard it, they did not accept it with faith.