Nehemiah 9:21
For 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.
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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 8:4 : 4 Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.
- Deut 29:5 : 5 I have led you through the wilderness for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated.
- Ps 34:10 : 10 Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
- Amos 5:25 : 25 You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel.
- Acts 13:18 : 18 For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
- Deut 8:2 : 2 Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the wilderness so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
- Exod 16:35 : 35 Now 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.
- Num 14:33-34 : 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.
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- Deut 8:2-43 verses87%
2Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the wilderness so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
3So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the LORD’s mouth.
4Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.
- Deut 29:5-62 verses86%
5I have led you through the wilderness for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated.
6You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer– all so that you might know that I am the LORD your God!
- Neh 9:19-202 verses80%
19“Due to your great compassion you did not abandon them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud did not stop guiding them in the path by day, nor did the pillar of fire stop illuminating for them by night the path on which they should travel.
20You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst.
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18For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
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7All 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.’”
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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.
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31and in the wilderness, where you saw him carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”
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6Indeed, 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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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.
- Deut 8:15-162 verses73%
15and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and
16fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.
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9“There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.
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25You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel.
- Neh 9:22-232 verses73%
22“You gave them kingdoms and peoples, and you allocated them to every corner of the land. They inherited the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan.
23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.
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5They had worn-out, patched sandals on their feet and dressed in worn-out clothes. All their bread was dry and hard.
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5They did not see what he did to you in the wilderness before you reached this place,
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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.
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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.
- Neh 9:11-122 verses72%
11You split the sea before them, and they crossed through the sea on dry ground! But you threw their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into surging waters.
12You guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night to illumine for them the path they were to travel.
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17And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Num 14:33-342 verses72%
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.
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40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!
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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.
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30You prolonged your kindness with them for many years, and you solemnly admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they paid no attention, so you delivered them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
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21They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions; he makes water flow out of a rock for them; he splits open a rock and water flows out.’
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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?’
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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.
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10For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said,‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’
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9When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
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7Your fathers cried out for help to the LORD; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, and then drowned them in the sea. You witnessed with your very own eyes what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.
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33the one who would go before you on the way to find places for you to camp, appearing in a fire at night and in a cloud by day to show you the way you ought to go.
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13These wineskins we filled were brand new, but look how they have ripped. Our clothes and sandals have worn out because it has been a very long journey.”
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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,
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17They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them,
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14In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.
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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.
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17Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.
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5I cared for you in the wilderness, in the dry desert where no water was.
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22Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud prolonged its stay over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling; but when it was taken up, they traveled on.
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19When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions of the LORD and did not journey.
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46Therefore, you remained at Kadesh for a long time– indeed, for the full time.
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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.