Chapter fourteen shows Israel’s response to the spies’ report. Shocked and scared, the people began to wail for their lives, wondering again why God had brought them to this place, only to die (Numbers 14:1-4). They feared for their wives and children, and even considered replacing Moses as their leader and returning to Egypt. Seeing […]
Chapters thirteen and fourteen contain one of the most famous stories in Numbers – the spies enter Canaan. Unfortunately, it is also the most disastrous, the event that caused the second half of Numbers and all of Deuteronomy to even take place. Had the spies and the nation handled this one event differently, they could
Chapter twelve records the third of three specific complaints, this time against Moses personally. Not only was Moses a leader in Israel, so were his siblings, Aaron and Miriam. As is often the case, a jealousy arose between them against Moses, and they grumbled against him, which displeased God greatly. Like children before a school principal,
