Bible Verses

For we shall have no inheritance with them on the other bank of the Jordan River or beyond since our inheritance has fallen to us here, east of the Jordan.”

As for us, we will not return to our homes until every one of the Israelites has taken possession of his inheritance.

Then we will take up arms to lead the people of Israel until we have brought them to the place appointed for them: only our young children will stay in the fortified towns, safe from the inhabitants of the country.

But they explained their purpose to Moses: “We would like to build sheepfolds here for our flocks and towns for our young children.

If you turn away from him, he will make your roaming in the desert longer, and all these people will perish because of you.”

And now, will you do as your fathers did? You, a new generation of sinful people, will you add still more to the burning anger of the Lord against Israel!

The anger of the Lord blazed out against Israel and he made them wander in the desert for forty years, until the generation that offended the Lord had all disappeared.

except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua son of Nun: these indeed have followed the Lord faithfully.’

 ‘These men of twenty years and older, who came out from Egypt, will never see the land that I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For they have not followed me faithfully,

Because of this, the Lord was angry that day and swore this oath: