Wilderness Wandering
Israel's forty-year journey through the desert after the Exodus, a period of testing, provision, and formation. Numbers 14:33-34 records the punishment for the spies' faithless report: one year of wandering for each day of exploration. God provided manna (Exodus 16), water from the rock (Exodus 17:6, Numbers 20:11), and protection through the pillar of cloud and fire (Exodus 13:21-22). Deuteronomy 8:2-5 interprets the wandering as discipline: God 'humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.' The wilderness formed Israel into a nation under God.
Verses about Wilderness Wandering
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Genesis 21:14
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, a…
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Numbers 14:33
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
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Numbers 32:13
And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil …
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Joshua 14:10
And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the child…
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Job 12:24
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
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Psalms 55:7
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
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Psalms 107:4
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
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Psalms 107:40
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
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Isaiah 16:8
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come eve…
People Associated
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PagielPagiel, son of Ochran, was the leader of the tribe of Asher during the wilderne…
PedahzurPedahzur, father of Gamaliel, the leader from the tribe of Manasseh during the …
ShelumielShelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, leader of the tribe of Simeon during the wil…
ZuarZuar was the father of Nethanel, a leader of the tribe of Issachar during the w…
ZurielZuriel was the leader of the Merarite Levites during the wilderness wanderings.
ZurishaddaiZurishaddai was the father of Shelumiel, a leader of the tribe of Simeon during…