Verse 2

This is what the LORD says: The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness as Israel journeyed to find rest.

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  • Ps 95:11 : 11 So I swore in My anger, 'They shall not enter My rest.'
  • Num 10:33 : 33 So they set out from the mountain of the LORD and traveled for three days. During those three days, the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD went ahead of them to search out a resting place for them.
  • Deut 1:33 : 33 who went before you on the way to scout out a place for you to camp, by night in the fire to show you the way you should go, and by day in the cloud.
  • Deut 2:7 : 7 The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.
  • Deut 8:2-3 : 2 Remember the entire journey the Lord your God has led you on these forty years in the wilderness, to humble and test you in order to know what is in your heart—whether or not you would keep His commandments. 3 He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, then fed you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers knew, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
  • Deut 8:16 : 16 He fed you manna in the wilderness, which your fathers had never known, to humble and test you so that He might do good for you in the end.
  • Deut 12:9 : 9 For you have not yet come into the resting place and the inheritance that the Lord your God is giving you.
  • Neh 9:12-15 : 12 By day, You led them with a pillar of cloud and by night with a pillar of fire, to give them light for the path they should follow. 13 You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke to them from heaven. You gave them upright judgments, true laws, good statutes, and commandments. 14 You made Your holy Sabbath known to them, and You gave them commandments, statutes, and laws through Your servant Moses. 15 You provided bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water out of a rock for their thirst. You told them to go in and take possession of the land You had sworn to give them.
  • Ps 78:14-16 : 14 By day He led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire. 15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the depths. 16 He brought streams out of the rock and made water flow down like rivers.
  • Ps 78:23-29 : 23 Yet He commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven. 24 He rained down manna for them to eat and gave them the grain of heaven. 25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food to their fill. 26 He made the east wind blow in the heavens and guided the south wind by His power. 27 He rained meat on them like dust, birds like the sand of the sea. 28 He made them fall inside their camp, all around their dwellings. 29 They ate and were filled abundantly, for He gave them what they craved.
  • Ps 78:52 : 52 But He led His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
  • Exod 1:16 : 16 "When you help the Hebrew women give birth and observe them on the birthing stools, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live."
  • Exod 1:22 : 22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.
  • Exod 2:23 : 23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery rose up to God.
  • Exod 5:21 : 21 They said to them, "May the Lord see and judge you, because you have made us obnoxious in the eyes of Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword in their hand to kill us."
  • Exod 12:37 : 37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
  • Exod 14:8-9 : 8 The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly. 9 The Egyptians pursued them—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, his horsemen, and his army—and they overtook them as they camped by the sea, near Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal Zephon. 10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them! They were terrified and cried out to the LORD. 11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Isn't this what we told you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone so we can serve the Egyptians'? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.
  • Exod 15:9-9 : 9 The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoils; my desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.' 10 But You blew with Your wind, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
  • Exod 17:8-9 : 8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. 9 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose some men for us and go out to fight against Amalek. Tomorrow, I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand." 10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him and fought against Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 As long as Moses held up his hands, Israel prevailed; but when he lowered his hands, Amalek prevailed. 12 When Moses' hands grew heavy, they took a stone and placed it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other, so his hands remained steady until sunset. 13 So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the sword.
  • Exod 33:14 : 14 The LORD replied, 'My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.'
  • Num 14:20 : 20 The LORD replied, 'I have forgiven them, as you asked.'
  • Deut 1:30 : 30 The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as He did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes.
  • Ps 105:37-43 : 37 Then he brought them out with silver and gold, and none among his tribes stumbled. 38 Egypt was glad when they departed, for dread of them had fallen upon them. 39 He spread a cloud as a covering and fire to give light at night. 40 They asked, and he brought quail; he satisfied them with the bread of heaven. 41 He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert. 42 For he remembered his holy promise given to Abraham his servant. 43 He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with joyful singing.
  • Ps 136:16-24 : 16 To Him who led His people through the wilderness, for His steadfast love endures forever. 17 To Him who struck down great kings, for His steadfast love endures forever. 18 And killed mighty kings, for His steadfast love endures forever. 19 To Sihon, king of the Amorites, for His steadfast love endures forever. 20 And to Og, king of Bashan, for His steadfast love endures forever. 21 And gave their land as an inheritance, for His steadfast love endures forever. 22 An inheritance to Israel, His servant, for His steadfast love endures forever. 23 He remembered us in our low estate, for His steadfast love endures forever. 24 And rescued us from our adversaries, for His steadfast love endures forever.
  • Isa 63:7-9 : 7 I will recount the LORD's kindnesses, the praises of the LORD, according to all the LORD has done for us—yes, the great goodness to the house of Israel, which he has granted them according to his compassion and the abundance of his steadfast love. 8 He said, "Surely they are my people, children who will not act falsely." And he became their Savior. 9 In all their distress, he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and compassion, he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. 10 Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them. 11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people: Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea, along with the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who set his Holy Spirit among them, 12 who sent his glorious arm of power to be at Moses' right hand, who divided the waters before them to gain for himself an everlasting name, 13 who led them through the depths? Like a horse in open country, they did not stumble; 14 like cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. This is how you guided your people to make for yourself a glorious name.
  • Jer 2:2 : 2 Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: ‘This is what the LORD says: I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
  • Ezek 20:14-17 : 14 But I acted for the sake of my name, to keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. 15 Also, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands— 16 because they rejected my ordinances, did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths, for their hearts followed after their idols. 17 Yet my eye spared them from destruction, and I did not destroy them completely in the wilderness.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
  • Heb 4:8-9 : 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. 9 Therefore, a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.