The People Rebel
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So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people a wept that night.
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b And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!
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"Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and c children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"
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So they said to one another, d "Let us select a leader and e return to Egypt."
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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
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But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;
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and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: f "The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.
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"If the LORD g delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, h 'a land which flows with milk and honey.'
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"Only i do not rebel against the LORD, j nor fear the people of the land, for k they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, l and the LORD is with us. Do not fear them."
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m And all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Now n the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel.
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Then the LORD said to Moses: "How long will these people o reject Me? And how long will they not p believe Me, with all the signs which I have performed among them?
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"I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will q make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
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Cross References
Numbers 11:4
Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: "Who will give us meat to eat?
Deuteronomy 1:45
Then you returned and wept before the LORD, but the LORD would not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.
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Cross References
Exodus 16:2
Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
Exodus 17:3
And the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses, and said, "Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?
Numbers 16:41
On the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of the LORD.
Psalms 106:25
But complained in their tents, And did not heed the voice of the LORD.
1 Corinthians 10:10
Nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
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Cross References
Numbers 14:31
But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.
Deuteronomy 1:39
Moreover your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
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Cross References
Nehemiah 9:17
They refused to obey, And they were not mindful of Your wonders That You did among them. But they hardened their necks, And in their rebellion They appointed a leader To return to their bondage. But You are God, Ready to pardon, Gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, Abundant in kindness, And did not forsake them.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:16
"But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the LORD has said to you, 'You shall not return that way again.'
Acts 7:39
Whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt.
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Cross References
Numbers 13:27
Then they told him, and said: "We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
Deuteronomy 1:25
"They also took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought back word to us, saying, ' It is a good land which the LORD our God is giving us.'
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:15
The LORD delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.
2 Samuel 15:25
Then the king said to Zadok, "Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and show me both it and His dwelling place.
2 Samuel 15:26
"But if He says thus: 'I have no delight in you,' here I am, let Him do to me as seems good to Him."
1 Kings 10:9
"Blessed be the LORD your God, who delighted in you, setting you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD has loved Israel forever, therefore He made you king, to do justice and righteousness."
Psalms 147:11
The LORD takes pleasure in those who fear Him, In those who hope in His mercy.
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Cross References
Exodus 3:8
So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
Numbers 13:27
Then they told him, and said: "We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:26
Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 9:7
Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
Deuteronomy 9:23
Likewise, when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, 'Go up and possess the land which I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe Him nor obey His voice.
Deuteronomy 9:24
You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He also has rejected you from being king.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:18
You shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:
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Cross References
Numbers 24:8
God brings him out of Egypt; He has strength like a wild ox; He shall consume the nations, his enemies; He shall break their bones And pierce them with his arrows.
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Cross References
Genesis 48:21
Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying...
Exodus 33:16
"For how then will it be known that Your people...
Deuteronomy 20:1
When you go out to battle against your enemies,...
Deuteronomy 20:3
And he shall say to them, 'Hear, O Israel: Toda...
Deuteronomy 20:4
'for the LORD your God is He who goes with you,...
Deuteronomy 31:6 - 8
"Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor...
Joshua 1:5
No man shall be able to stand before you all th...
Judges 1:22
And the house of Joseph also went up against Be...
2 Chronicles 13:12
"Now look, God Himself is with us as our head, ...
Psalms 46:7
The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob ...
Psalms 46:11
The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob ...
Zechariah 8:23
"Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'In those days te...
Matthew 28:20
Teaching them to observe all things that I have...
Hebrews 13:5
Let your conduct be without covetousness; be co...
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Cross References
Exodus 17:4
So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, "What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me!
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Exodus 16:10
Now it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to 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.
Leviticus 9:23
And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of meeting, and came out and blessed the people. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.
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Cross References
Psalms 95:8
Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, As in the day of trial in the wilderness.
Hebrews 3:8
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:23
Likewise, when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, 'Go up and possess the land which I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe Him nor obey His voice.
John 12:37
But although He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him.
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Cross References
Exodus 32:10
"Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation."
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