Israel In The Wilderness

And afterward Moses and Aaron went In, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith The LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me In The Wilderness.

For Pharaoh will say of The children of Israel, They are entangled In The land, The Wilderness hath shut them In.

So Moses brought Israel from The Red sea, and they went out into The Wilderness of Shur; and they went three days In The Wilderness, and found no water.

And The whole congregation of The children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron In The Wilderness:

• Ingratitude
• Servant

And The children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by The hand of The LORD In The land of Egypt, when we sat by The flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to The full; for ye have brought us forth into this Wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto The whole congregation of The children of Israel, that they looked toward The Wilderness, and, behold, The glory of The LORD appeared In The cloud.

• Water

And all The congregation of The children of Israel journeyed from The Wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to The commandment of The LORD, and pitched In Rephidim: and there was no water for The people to drink.

In The third month, when The children of Israel were gone forth out of The land of Egypt, The same day came they into The Wilderness of Sinai.

For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to The desert of Sinai, and had pitched In The Wilderness; and there Israel camped before The mount.

Which The LORD commanded Moses In mount Sinai, In The day that he commanded The children of Israel to offer their oblations unto The LORD, In The Wilderness of Sinai.

• Offerings

And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon The head of The live goat, and confess over him all The iniquities of The children of Israel, and all their transgressions In all their sins, putting them upon The head of The goat, and shall send him away by The hand of a fit man into The Wilderness:

And they kept The passover on The fourteenth day of The first month at even In The Wilderness of Sinai: according to all that The LORD commanded Moses, so did The children of Israel.

And The children of Israel took their journeys out of The Wilderness of Sinai; and The cloud rested In The Wilderness of Paran.

And all The children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and The whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died In The land of Egypt! or would God we had died In this Wilderness!

• Sabbath

And while The children of Israel were In The Wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon The sabbath day.

But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron The priest numbered, when they numbered The children of Israel In The Wilderness of Sinai.

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 In The sight of The LORD, was consumed.

These be The words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan In The Wilderness, In The plain over against The Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

Because ye trespassed against me among The children of Israel at The waters of MeribahKadesh, In The Wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not In The midst of The children of Israel.

For The children of Israel walked forty years In The Wilderness, till all The people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not The voice of The LORD: unto whom The LORD sware that he would not shew them The land, which The LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all The inhabitants of Ai In The field, In The Wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on The edge of The sword, until they were consumed, that all The Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with The edge of The sword.

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 children of Israel wandered In The Wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

Therefore they turned their backs before The men of Israel unto The way of The Wilderness; but The battle overtook them; and them which came out of The cities they destroyed In The midst of them.

Then Saul arose, and went down to The Wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David In The Wilderness of Ziph.

And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring In to The LORD The collection that Moses The servant of God laid upon Israel In The Wilderness.

• Character

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and The children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are In The utmost corners, that dwell In The Wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all The house of Israel are uncircumcised In The heart.

Thus saith The LORD, The people which were left of The sword found grace In The Wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

But The house of Israel rebelled against me In The Wilderness: they walked not In my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live In them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them In The Wilderness, to consume them.

I found Israel like grapes In The Wilderness; I saw your fathers as The firstripe In The fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings In The Wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith The LORD The God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from The entering In of Hemath unto The river of The Wilderness.

• Idolatry

Then God turned, and gave them up to worship The host of heaven; as it is written In The book of The prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by The space of forty years In The Wilderness?