-
Acts 7:36
This man led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
-
Deuteronomy 9:21-24
I took the sinful calf you had made and burned it. I crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust, and threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.“ You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah.When the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, he said,‘ Go up and possess the land I have given you’; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You did not believe or obey him.You have been rebelling against the LORD ever since I have known you.
-
Deuteronomy 9:7
“ Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. You have been rebelling against the LORD from the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place.
-
Nehemiah 9:16-21
But our ancestors acted arrogantly; they became stiff-necked and did not listen to your commands.They refused to listen and did not remember your wonders you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love, and you did not abandon them.Even after they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said,“ This is your god who brought you out of Egypt,” and they had committed terrible blasphemies,you did not abandon them in the wilderness because of your great compassion. During the day the pillar of cloud never turned away from them, guiding them on their journey. And during the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.You sent your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst.You provided for them in the wilderness forty years, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.
-
Amos 5:25-26
“ House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?But you have taken up Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, images you have made for yourselves.
-
Hebrews 3:7-10
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear his voice,do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,where your ancestors tested me, tried me, and saw my worksfor forty years. Therefore I was provoked to anger with that generation and said,“ They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.”
-
Psalms 106:13-29
They soon forgot his works and would not wait for his counsel.They were seized with craving in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.In the camp they were envious of Moses and of Aaron, the LORD’s holy one.The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.Fire blazed throughout their assembly; flames consumed the wicked.At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped the cast metal image.They exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,wondrous works in the land of Ham, awe-inspiring acts at the Red Sea.So he said he would have destroyed them— if Moses his chosen one had not stood before him in the breach to turn his wrath away from destroying them.They despised the pleasant land and did not believe his promise.They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the LORD.So he raised his hand against them with an oath that he would make them fall in the desertand would disperse their descendants among the nations, scattering them throughout the lands.They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.They angered the LORD with their deeds, and a plague broke out against them.
-
Exodus 16:2
The entire Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
-
Hebrews 3:16-19
For who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it all who came out of Egypt under Moses?With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed?So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
-
1 Corinthians 10 1-1 Corinthians 10 10
Now I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, all passed through the sea,and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.They all ate the same spiritual food,and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.Nevertheless God was not pleased with most of them, since they were struck down in the wilderness.Now these things took place as examples for us, so that we will not desire evil things as they did.Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to party.Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day twenty-three thousand people died.Let us not test Christ as some of them did and were destroyed by snakes.And don’t grumble as some of them did, and were killed by the destroyer.
-
Deuteronomy 1:31
And you saw in the wilderness how the LORD your God carried you as a man carries his son all along the way you traveled until you reached this place.
-
Ezekiel 20:10-17
“‘ So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.Then I gave them my statutes and explained my ordinances to them— the person who does them will live by them.I also gave them my Sabbaths to serve as a sign between me and them, so that they would know that I am the LORD who consecrates them.“‘ But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my statutes and they rejected my ordinances— the person who does them will live by them. They also completely profaned my Sabbaths. So I considered pouring out my wrath on them in the wilderness to put an end to them.But I acted for the sake of my name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.However, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them— the most beautiful of all lands, flowing with milk and honey—because they rejected my ordinances, profaned my Sabbaths, and did not follow my statutes. For their hearts went after their idols.Yet I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness.
-
Psalms 78:17-42
But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.They deliberately tested God, demanding the food they craved.They spoke against God, saying,“ Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out; torrents overflowed. But can he also provide bread or furnish meat for his people?”Therefore, the LORD heard and became furious; then fire broke out against Jacob, and anger flared up against Israelbecause they did not believe God or rely on his salvation.He gave a command to the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven.He rained manna for them to eat; he gave them grain from heaven.People ate the bread of angels. He sent them an abundant supply of food.He made the east wind blow in the skies and drove the south wind by his might.He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the seas.He made them fall in the camp, all around the tents.The people ate and were completely satisfied, for he gave them what they craved.Before they had turned from what they craved, while the food was still in their mouths,God’s anger flared up against them, and he killed some of their best men. He struck down Israel’s fit young men.Despite all this, they kept sinning and did not believe his wondrous works.He made their days end in futility, their years in sudden disaster.When he killed some of them, the rest began to seek him; they repented and searched for God.They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their Redeemer.But they deceived him with their mouths, they lied to him with their tongues,their hearts were insincere toward him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.Yet he was compassionate; he atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often turned his anger aside and did not unleash all his wrath.He remembered that they were only flesh, a wind that passes and does not return.How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert.They constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.They did not remember his power shown on the day he redeemed them from the foe,
-
Psalms 95:8-11
Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on that day at Massah in the wildernesswhere your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.For forty years I was disgusted with that generation; I said,“ They are a people whose hearts go astray; they do not know my ways.”So I swore in my anger,“ They will not enter my rest.”
-
Acts 7:39-43
Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him. Instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.They told Aaron: Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what’s happened to him.They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.God turned away and gave them up to worship the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: House of Israel, did you bring me offerings and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness?You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship. So I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.
-
Exodus 16:35
The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.
-
Numbers 14:33-34
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness.You will bear the consequences of your iniquities forty years based on the number of the forty days that you scouted the land, a year for each day. You will know my displeasure.
-
Numbers 14:22
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 ten times and did not obey me,
