Numbers 14:39-45 (HCSB)Israel Routed39 When Moses reported these words to all the Israelites, the people were overcome with grief. 40 They got up early the next morning and went up the ridge of the hill country, saying, “Let’s go to the place the Lord promised, for we were wrong.”41 But Moses responded, “Why are you going against the Lord’s command? It won’t succeed. 42 Don’t go, because the Lord ...  Read More

Numbers 14:26-38  (HCSB)26 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 27 “How long must I endure this evil community that keeps complaining about Me? I have heard the Israelites’ complaints that they make against Me. 28 Tell them: As surely as I live,” this is the Lord’s declaration, “I will do to you exactly as I heard you say. 29 Your corpses will fall in this wilderness—all of you who were registe...  Read More

Numbers 14:20-25 (HCSB)20 The Lord responded, “I have pardoned them as you requested. 21 Yet as surely as I live and as the whole earth is filled with the Lord’s glory, 22 none of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested Me these 10 times and did not obey Me, 23 will ever see the land I swore to give their fathers. None of those who h...  Read More

Numbers 14:11-19  (HCSB)God’s Judgment of Israel’s Rebellion11 The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people despise Me? How long will they not trust in Me despite all the signs I have performed among them? 12 I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.” 13 But Moses replied to the Lord, “The Egyptians will hear a...  Read More

God Brings Judgment with Consequences on the DisobedientNumbers 14:1-10 (HCSB)Israel’s Refusal to Enter Canaan14 Then the whole community broke into loud cries, and the people wept that night. 2 All the Israelites complained about Moses and Aaron, and the whole community told them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness! 3 Why is the Lord bringing us i...  Read More

THEY LANDApply The TextBelievers can depend on God to instruct them in the tasks He has for them.Obedience to God includes doing what He is calling us to do.Believers can face obstacles with faith, knowing God is with them.What new ministry opportunity has the Lord put in front of your Bible study group? What actions (if any) have you taken to begin? What steps can you take to start implementing t...  Read More

Has your faith grown from past mistakes? If so, have you encouraged others with your lessons? Is there someone that needs to learn from your mistakes?Have you imposed upon God a requirement that He free you of all struggles to be happy? Or, are you seeking His peace during struggle? Are you trusting in God to become rich in fruit of the Spirit? Or, are you looking for the riches of the world?...  Read More

Numbers 13:30-33 (HCSB)30 Then Caleb quieted the people in the presence of Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land because we can certainly conquer it!” 31 But the men who had gone up with him responded, “We can’t go up against the people because they are stronger than we are!” 32 So they gave a negative report to the Israelites about the land they had scouted: “The land we ...  Read More

Numbers 13:26-29  (HCSB)Report about Canaan26 The men went back to Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for them and the whole community, and they showed them the fruit of the land. 27 They reported to Moses: “We went into the land where you sent us. Indeed it is flowing with milk and honey, and here is some of its fruit....  Read More

Numbers 13:17-25  (HCSB)17 When Moses sent them to scout out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up this way to the Negev, then go up into the hill country. 18 See what the land is like, and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many. 19 Is the land they live in good or bad? Are the cities they live in encampments or fortifications? 20 Is the land fertile or unproductive? ...  Read More

Numbers 12:10-16  (HCSB)10 As the cloud moved away from the tent, Miriam’s skin suddenly became diseased, as white as snow. When Aaron turned toward her, he saw that she was diseased 11 and said to Moses, “My lord, please don’t hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed. 12 Please don’t let her be like a dead baby whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”...  Read More

Numbers 12:1-9  (HCSB)Miriam and Aaron Rebel12 Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he married (for he had married a Cushite woman). 2 They said, “Does the Lord speak only through Moses? Does He not also speak through us?” And the Lord heard it. 3 Moses was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth.4 Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miria...  Read More