Numbers 14:23-30

Devotionals, Articles, and Bible Study Resources on Numbers 14:23-30

23not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.
24But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.
25Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
26Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
27“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
28So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
29Your bodies will fall in this wilderness — all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older — because you have grumbled against Me.
30Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
— Numbers 14:23-30

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Illustration of Numbers 14:23

Inspirational illustration of The Cost of Fear -- not one of them will set eyes on the land I so solemnly promised to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with such repeated contempt will see it.

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