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• Deuteronomy 1Bible

  Deuteronomy 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy. It opens Moses' first address in the land of Moab, in which he looks back on the wilderness journey, recounting the appointment of leaders, the spying out of the land from Kadesh Barnea, and the judgment that followed.

• Deuteronomy 2Bible

  Deuteronomy 2 is part of Moses' retrospective account of the wilderness journey. It recounts how Israel passed by the lands of Edom, Moab, and Ammon without conflict, then defeated Sihon king of Heshbon and took his land.

• Forty Years in the WildernessBible

  The forty years in the wilderness were the period the Israelites spent in the wilderness after the Exodus and before entering Canaan. The Bible portrays this period both as judgment for unbelief and as a time in which God fed and taught his people.

• HormahBible

  Hormah was a town in the Negev, the southern region of Canaan. During the wilderness period, Israel was defeated and driven back as far as this place, and the town was later named for the "utter destruction" Israel brought upon it. It appears in Numbers, Joshua, Judges, and other books.

• Valley of EshcolBible

  The Valley of Eshcol is a valley near Hebron where the twelve spies cut down a large cluster of grapes while scouting out Canaan. Its name means "cluster" in Hebrew.

• Brook of EgyptBible

  The Brook of Egypt is a seasonal stream (wadi) named in the Old Testament as the southwestern boundary of the land of Canaan. It is commonly identified with Wadi el-Arish in the northern Sinai Peninsula, though scholars differ on its exact location.

• MeribahBible

  Meribah is a Hebrew place name meaning "strife." It is the place where the Israelites in the wilderness quarreled with Moses because they had no water and where God brought water out of a rock. It appears in Exodus 17 and Numbers 20.

• Massah and MeribahBible

  Massah and Meribah are the names given to places in the wilderness where, after the Exodus, the people of Israel quarreled with Moses over the lack of water and tested God. Massah means "testing," and Meribah means "quarreling."

• Water from the RockBible

  The water from the rock refers to the events in which God, through Moses, brought water out of a rock when the Israelites in the wilderness complained because they had no water to drink. The events are recorded in Exodus 17 and Numbers 20.

• Numbers 20Bible

  Numbers 20 recounts the death of Miriam at Kadesh and the incident at the waters of Meribah, after which Moses and Aaron are told that they will not enter Canaan. The chapter also records Edom's refusal to let Israel pass through its territory and the death of Aaron on Mount Hor.

• Wilderness of Sin and Wilderness of ZinBible

  The Old Testament mentions two distinct wildernesses whose Hebrew names differ: the Wilderness of Sin (Hebrew *Sin*) near Mount Sinai, where the manna fell, and the Wilderness of Zin (Hebrew *Tsin*) near Kadesh on the southern border of Canaan. The Korean New Korean Revised Version renders both with the same name.

• MiriamPeople

  Miriam was the sister of Moses and Aaron and a prophetess who, according to Exodus, took up a timbrel and sang with the women after the crossing of the Red Sea. Numbers records that she was struck with a skin disease after speaking against Moses, and that she died at Kadesh.

• Mount HorBible

  Mount Hor is a mountain in the Book of Numbers. Located on the border of Edom, it is where Aaron died and the place from which Israel set out just before the episode of the bronze serpent. A mountain of the same name also appears on the northern boundary of the Promised Land.

• GerarBible

  Gerar was a town in southwestern Canaan, between Gaza and Beersheba. It is the setting of the accounts involving Abraham, Isaac, and Abimelech king of Gerar, and it is especially known for the story of Isaac's wells.

• King's HighwayBible

  The King's Highway is the road the Israelites under Moses named when they asked Edom and Sihon king of the Amorites for permission to pass through their lands. It is known as an ancient trade route running north and south across the plateau east of the Jordan River.

• King's HighwayBible

  The King's Highway was an ancient trade route running north and south across the plateau east of the Jordan River. In the Book of Numbers, it is the road Moses named when he asked Edom and Sihon king of the Amorites for permission to pass through, promising to travel only along that way.

• Ezion-geberBible

  Ezion-geber was a biblical port city near the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba, the eastern arm of the Red Sea. It appears as a campsite on Israel's wilderness journey and as the place where Solomon and Jehoshaphat built ships.

• Genesis 20Bible

  Genesis 20 recounts how Abraham, while sojourning in Gerar, presented his wife Sarah as his sister. Abimelech, king of Gerar, took her, but after God warned him in a dream, he returned her.

• Numbers 13:33Bible Verses

  In this verse, ten of the spies returning from Canaan call the inhabitants of the land descendants of the Nephilim and report, "we were in our own sight as grasshoppers." Frequently cited in preaching as an illustration of the outlook of unbelief, the passage also figures in discussions of the identity of the Nephilim.