Title Numbers 14: 39-45. Title: Outside of Jehovah.
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Numbers 14: 39-45. Title: Outside of Jehovah.
It was 40 years before Israel crossed the Jordan River and entered the land of Canaan. The Israelites sent twelve spies to the land of Canaan. As a result of the spying, the people of Israel criticized God. They said that God wanted to kill them in the land of Canaan. As a result of this unbelief, the people of Israel suffered calamity, and it was declared that they would not be able to enter the land of Canaan.
In this situation, instead of turning and repenting, the people of Israel begin to commit another evil. With their mouth they confess that they have sinned (verse 40). But these are just words. They keep insisting that they invade the land of Canaan with their own strength. When God told us to enter the land of Canaan, we refused to go, but now He tells us not to go in, so we insist on going back in. Indeed, their roles are endless.
In verse 41, Moses stopped them, saying, "Why do you now transgress the commandment of the Lord? This will not prosper." Later, Moses added that in Deuteronomy 1:40-46, it was not his own will, but God's direct command that he stopped them at the time. Deuteronomy 1:42 says: “And the LORD said to me, ‘Tell them, ‘Do not go up, do not fight, lest you be defeated by your enemies, for I am not among you. This opposition from God continues in verse 43. In verse 43 God says that the Amalekites and Canaanites will destroy you, and the Lord will not be with you. God has clearly warned us this way.
Despite God's gracious warning, they ended up committing evil. They started a war. But this war is a war that has already been promised defeat. Because the people of Israel went to war knowing that God would not be with them in this war. The results of the war were horrendous. Verse 45 says that the people of Israel were destroyed by the Amalekites and the Canaanites living in the mountains.
In addition, it is recorded that they pursued and destroyed the Israelites as far as Hormah. The region of Hormah here is a place name that means destruction, and it is a unique way of expressing how severe the defeat of the Israelites in the war was that the recorder had suffered.