Numbers 14:34

For each of the forty days of spying, Israel would wander a year, learning what it means to have God against them. The punishment deliberately matched the offense.

Cross-references · 19

• Ezek 4:6“Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you.
• Num 13:25They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
• Jer 18:9–10At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
• Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Ps 95:10Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
• 1 Sam 2:30“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.
• Deut 31:16–17Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
• Zech 11:10I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
• Heb 4:1Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
• 2 Chr 36:21to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
• Rev 11:3I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
• Num 18:23But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Among the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance.
• Lev 20:19“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister; for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity.
• 1 Kgs 8:56“Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
• Lam 3:31–33For the Lord will not cast off forever.
• Ezek 14:10They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him;
• Ps 77:8Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?
• Ps 105:42For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
• Ps 38:4For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

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