Numbers 26:64
26:64 But there was not a man among these who had been
among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 32:11
32:11 ‘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,
Deuteronomy 1:35-45
1:35 “Not a single person
of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!
1:36 The exception is Caleb son of Jephunneh;
he will see it and I will give him and his descendants the territory on which he has walked, because he has wholeheartedly followed me.”
1:37 As for me, the
Lord was also angry with me on your account. He said, “You also will not be able to go there.
1:38 However, Joshua son of Nun, your assistant,
will go. Encourage him, because he will enable Israel to inherit the land.
1:39 Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way,
and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad,
will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.
1:40 But as for you,
turn back and head for the desert by the way to the Red Sea.”
Unsuccessful Conquest of Canaan
1:41 Then you responded to me and admitted, “We have sinned against the Lord. We will now go up and fight as the Lord our God has told us to do.” So you each put on your battle gear and prepared to go up to the hill country.
1:42 But the Lord told me: “Tell them this: ‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you and you will be defeated by your enemies.’”
1:43 I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the Lord and recklessly went up to the hill country.
1:44 The Amorite inhabitants of that area confronted you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah.
1:45 Then you came back and wept before the Lord, but he paid no attention to you whatsoever.
Nehemiah 9:23
9:23 You 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.
Psalms 95:11
95:11 So I made a vow in my anger,
‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”
Psalms 106:26
106:26 So he made a solemn vow
that he would make them die in the desert,
Ezekiel 20:15
20:15 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.
Hebrews 3:17-18
3:17 And against whom was God
provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned,
whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
3:18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?
Hebrews 4:3
4:3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “
As I swore in my anger, ‘
They will never enter my rest!’”
And yet God’s works
were accomplished from the foundation of the world.