Joshua 5:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the wilderness until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the LORD, died off. For the LORD had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn by oath to their ancestors to give them, a land rich in milk and honey.

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  • Deut 2:7 : 7 All along the way I, the LORD your God, have blessed your every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through this great wilderness. These forty years I have been with you; you have lacked for nothing.’”
  • Deut 2:14 : 14 Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the LORD had vowed to them.
  • Exod 3:8 : 8 I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
  • Num 14:23 : 23 they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.
  • Deut 1:3 : 3 However, it was not until the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year that Moses addressed the Israelites just as the LORD had instructed him to do.
  • Heb 3:11 : 11 “As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’”
  • Deut 8:4 : 4 Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.
  • Ps 95:10-11 : 10 For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said,‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’ 11 So I made a vow in my anger,‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”
  • Jer 2:2 : 2 “Go and declare in the hearing of the people of Jerusalem:‘This is what the LORD says:“I have fond memories of you, how devoted you were to me in your early years. I remember how you loved me like a new bride; you followed me through the wilderness, through a land that had never been planted.
  • Ezek 20:6 : 6 On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.
  • Ezek 20:15 : 15 I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them– a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.
  • Joel 3:18 : 18 On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the LORD, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.
  • Num 14:29-35 : 29 Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness– all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me. 30 You will by no means enter into the land where I swore to settle you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. 31 But I will bring in your little ones, whom you said would become victims of war, and they will enjoy the land that you have despised. 32 But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, 33 and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness. 34 According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days– one day for a year– you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me. 35 I, the LORD, have said,“I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”
  • Exod 3:17 : 17 and I have promised that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

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  • Num 32:9-11
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    81%

    9When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the LORD had given them.

    10So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and he swore,

    11‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old and upward who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

  • Deut 2:14-15
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    14Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the LORD had vowed to them.

    15Indeed, it was the very hand of the LORD that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.

  • 13So the LORD’s anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the LORD was finished.

  • 35Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

  • 9and that you may enjoy long life in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Num 14:33-34
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    33and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.

    34According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days– one day for a year– you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.

  • Deut 1:34-35
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    34Judgment at Kadesh Barnea When the LORD heard you, he became angry and made this vow:

    35“Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

  • Josh 5:4-5
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    4This is why Joshua had to circumcise them: All the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt died on the journey through the wilderness after they left Egypt.

    5Now all the men who left were circumcised, but all the sons born on the journey through the wilderness after they left Egypt were uncircumcised.

  • 18For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

  • 15I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them– a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

  • 16‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’

  • 7He replaced them with their sons, whom Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way.

  • Num 14:7-8
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    7They said to the whole community of the Israelites,“The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly good land.

    8If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us– a land that is flowing with milk and honey.

  • Num 14:22-23
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    22For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

    23they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

  • 17And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • 3Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

  • Num 14:29-30
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    75%

    29Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness– all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.

    30You will by no means enter into the land where I swore to settle you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

  • 22You kept the promise that you swore on oath to their ancestors. You gave them a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • 19Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.

  • 65For the LORD had said of them,“They will surely die in the wilderness.” And there was not left a single man of them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

  • 10I brought you up from the land of Egypt; I led you through the wilderness for forty years so you could take the Amorites’ land as your own.

  • 21For forty years you sustained them. Even in the wilderness they never lacked anything. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

  • 3Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number– as the LORD, God of your ancestors, said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • 6They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’

  • 5When the LORD brings you to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, then you will keep this ceremony in this month.

  • 36This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

  • 11Then he said to me,“Get up, set out leading the people so they may go and possess the land I promised to give to their ancestors.”

  • 15You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

  • 39When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.

  • 5I have led you through the wilderness for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated.

  • 12The manna stopped appearing the day they ate some of the produce of the land; the Israelites never ate manna again. They ate from the produce of the land of Canaan that year.

  • 25You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel.

  • 14Moreover, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind these men? We will not come up.”

  • 10So now, look, the LORD has preserved my life, just as he promised, these past forty-five years since the LORD spoke these words to Moses, during which Israel traveled through the wilderness. Now look, I am today eighty-five years old.

  • 4Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.

  • 9Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • 3So Joshua said to the Israelites:“How long do you intend to put off occupying the land the LORD God of your ancestors has given you?