Book of Numbers bible study chapters 9 through 16

 

These events that are chronicled in the book of Numbers likely happen after the commandments are given and perhaps also the golden calf issue, where Israel gets into position to check it out, and sends scouts to check out the promised land and then they get two conflicting reports, one of faith and one unbelieving. They children sadly go with the unbelieving ones and that unbelief and rebellion, perhaps along with their other grumbling dooms them to wander the wilderness 40 years, and as such almost all die in the wilderness and only the descendants see the promised land. Also in this study towards the end is where a group of rebels led by Korah try to usurp Moses’ authority, but God deals with that.

Here are the links to the last two bible studies

Here is the flight from Egypt up to the commandments given

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/israel-from-egypt-bible-study-exodus-chapters-13-through-20-deuteronomy-5/10200695770410229

And here is the golden calf bible study

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/golden-calf-and-god-visitation-bible-study/10200697773460304

In chapter 9 of Numbers Moses gets answers to deal with those who might miss the Passover and the conditions of when the camp of Israel was to move.

(Numbers 9:1)  And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

 

(Numbers 9:2)  "Let the people of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.

 

(Numbers 9:3)  On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it."

 

(Numbers 9:4)  So Moses told the people of Israel that they should keep the Passover.

 

(Numbers 9:5)  And they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the people of Israel did.

 

(Numbers 9:6)  And there were certain men who were unclean through touching a dead body, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

 

(Numbers 9:7)  And those men said to him, "We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the LORD's offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?"

 

(Numbers 9:8)  And Moses said to them, "Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you."

 

(Numbers 9:9)  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

 

(Numbers 9:10)  "Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the LORD.

 

(Numbers 9:11)  In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

 

(Numbers 9:12)  They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break any of its bones; according to all the statute for the Passover they shall keep it.

 

(Numbers 9:13)  But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not bring the LORD's offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.

 

(Numbers 9:14)  And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native."

 

(Numbers 9:15)  On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony. And at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.

 

(Numbers 9:16)  So it was always: the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire by night.

 

(Numbers 9:17)  And whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, after that the people of Israel set out, and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the people of Israel camped.

 

(Numbers 9:18)  At the command of the LORD the people of Israel set out, and at the command of the LORD they camped. As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.

 

(Numbers 9:19)  Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle many days, the people of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not set out.

 

(Numbers 9:20)  Sometimes the cloud was a few days over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the LORD they remained in camp; then according to the command of the LORD they set out.

 

(Numbers 9:21)  And sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning. And when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted they set out.

 

(Numbers 9:22)  Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, abiding there, the people of Israel remained in camp and did not set out, but when it lifted they set out.

 

(Numbers 9:23)  At the command of the LORD they camped, and at the command of the LORD they set out. They kept the charge of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by Moses.

 

In chapter 10 of Numbers the silver trumpets were ordered to be made and used and significance explained as well as the order of movement out of the camp and even who was to do what in moving the ark of the covenant out

(Numbers 10:1)  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

 

(Numbers 10:2)  "Make two silver trumpets. Of hammered work you shall make them, and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for breaking camp.

 

(Numbers 10:3)  And when both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

 

(Numbers 10:4)  But if they blow only one, then the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.

 

(Numbers 10:5)  When you blow an alarm, the camps that are on the east side shall set out.

 

(Numbers 10:6)  And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out.

 

(Numbers 10:7)  But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow a long blast, but you shall not sound an alarm.

 

(Numbers 10:8)  And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

 

(Numbers 10:9)  And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

 

(Numbers 10:10)  On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the LORD your God."

 

(Numbers 10:11)  In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony,

 

(Numbers 10:12)  and the people of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.

 

(Numbers 10:13)  They set out for the first time at the command of the LORD by Moses.

 

(Numbers 10:14)  The standard of the camp of the people of Judah set out first by their companies, and over their company was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

 

(Numbers 10:15)  And over the company of the tribe of the people of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar.

 

(Numbers 10:16)  And over the company of the tribe of the people of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.

 

(Numbers 10:17)  And when the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who carried the tabernacle, set out.

 

(Numbers 10:18)  And the standard of the camp of Reuben set out by their companies, and over their company was Elizur the son of Shedeur.

 

(Numbers 10:19)  And over the company of the tribe of the people of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

 

(Numbers 10:20)  And over the company of the tribe of the people of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

 

(Numbers 10:21)  Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.

 

(Numbers 10:22)  And the standard of the camp of the people of Ephraim set out by their companies, and over their company was Elishama the son of Ammihud.

 

(Numbers 10:23)  And over the company of the tribe of the people of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

 

(Numbers 10:24)  And over the company of the tribe of the people of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.

 

(Numbers 10:25)  Then the standard of the camp of the people of Dan, acting as the rear guard of all the camps, set out by their companies, and over their company was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

 

(Numbers 10:26)  And over the company of the tribe of the people of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran.

 

(Numbers 10:27)  And over the company of the tribe of the people of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.

 

(Numbers 10:28)  This was the order of march of the people of Israel by their companies, when they set out.

 

(Numbers 10:29)  And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the LORD has promised good to Israel."

 

(Numbers 10:30)  But he said to him, "I will not go. I will depart to my own land and to my kindred."

 

(Numbers 10:31)  And he said, "Please do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.

 

(Numbers 10:32)  And if you do go with us, whatever good the LORD will do to us, the same will we do to you."

 

(Numbers 10:33)  So they set out from the mount of the LORD three days' journey. And the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.

 

(Numbers 10:34)  And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, whenever they set out from the camp.

 

(Numbers 10:35)  And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, "Arise, O LORD, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you."

 

(Num 10:36)  And when it rested, he said, "Return, O LORD, to the ten thousand thousands of Israel."

 

In numbers chapter 11 the Lord has to deal with still more complaints from the people of Israel, but this time He judges them because of those complaints, but then eventually sends quail for provision and then has to punish by plague those (many) who took a lot of it (perhaps gluttonously so)

(Numbers 11:1)  And the people complained in the hearing of the LORD about their misfortunes, and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.

 

(Numbers 11:2)  Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

 

(Numbers 11:3)  So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them.

 

(Numbers 11:4)  Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, "Oh that we had meat to eat!

 

(Numbers 11:5)  We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

 

(Numbers 11:6)  But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at."

 

(Numbers 11:7)  Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium.

 

(Numbers 11:8)  The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

 

(Numbers 11:9)  When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.

 

(Numbers 11:10)  Moses heard the people weeping throughout their clans, everyone at the door of his tent. And the anger of the LORD blazed hotly, and Moses was displeased.

 

(Numbers 11:11)  Moses said to the LORD, "Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

 

(Numbers 11:12)  Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,' to the land that you swore to give their fathers?

 

(Numbers 11:13)  Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'

 

(Numbers 11:14)  I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me.

 

(Numbers 11:15)  If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness."

 

(Numbers 11:16)  Then the LORD said to Moses, "Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.

 

(Numbers 11:17)  And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you may not bear it yourself alone.

 

(Numbers 11:18)  And say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.

 

(Numbers 11:19)  You shall not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,

 

(Numbers 11:20)  but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"'"

 

(Numbers 11:21)  But Moses said, "The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot, and you have said, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!'

 

(Numbers 11:22)  Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, and be enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and be enough for them?"

 

(Numbers 11:23)  And the LORD said to Moses, "Is the LORD's hand shortened? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not."

 

(Numbers 11:24)  So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. And he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tent.

 

(Numbers 11:25)  Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing it.

 

(Numbers 11:26)  Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp.

 

(Numbers 11:27)  And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

 

(Numbers 11:28)  And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, "My lord Moses, stop them."

 

(Numbers 11:29)  But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!"

 

(Numbers 11:30)  And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.

 

(Numbers 11:31)  Then a wind from the LORD sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the ground.

 

(Numbers 11:32)  And the people rose all that day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered least gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

 

(Numbers 11:33)  While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck down the people with a very great plague.

 

(Numbers 11:34)  Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.

 

(Numbers 11:35)  From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth.

 

Miriam is temporarily stricken with leprosy after she and Aaron spoke against Moses in the beginning of Numbers chapter 12. Moses’ intercession keeps that to one week when the camp does not move

(Numbers 12:1)  Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.

 

(Numbers 12:2)  And they said, "Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?" And the LORD heard it.

 

(Numbers 12:3)  Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth.

 

(Numbers 12:4)  And suddenly the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, "Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting." And the three of them came out.

 

(Numbers 12:5)  And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.

 

(Numbers 12:6)  And he said, "Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.

 

(Numbers 12:7)  Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house.

 

(Numbers 12:8)  With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"

 

(Numbers 12:9)  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them, and he departed.

 

(Numbers 12:10)  When the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.

 

(Numbers 12:11)  And Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, do not punish us because we have done foolishly and have sinned.

 

(Numbers 12:12)  Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb."

 

(Numbers 12:13)  And Moses cried to the LORD, "O God, please heal her--please."

 

(Numbers 12:14)  But the LORD said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again."

 

(Numbers 12:15)  So Miriam was shut outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out on the march till Miriam was brought in again.

 

(Numbers 12:16)  After that the people set out from Hazeroth, and camped in the wilderness of Paran.

 

In numbers chapter 13 God then sends out a small party to go spy out the land of Canaan, the promised land, and they go out and do that and come back with good and bad reports. They do indeed confirm that it is filled with milk and honey, but some say they can handle the inhabitants with God’s help but those with the bad report say they cannot for the people are so large, casting doubt on God and his ability to give this land and its inhabitants over to the children of Israel

(Numbers 13:1)  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

 

(Numbers 13:2)  "Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them."

 

(Numbers 13:3)  So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel.

 

(Numbers 13:4)  And these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;

 

(Numbers 13:5)  from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;

 

(Numbers 13:6)  from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;

 

(Numbers 13:7)  from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;

 

(Numbers 13:8)  from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;

 

(Numbers 13:9)  from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;

 

(Numbers 13:10)  from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;

 

(Numbers 13:11)  from the tribe of Joseph (that is, from the tribe of Manasseh), Gaddi the son of Susi;

 

(Numbers 13:12)  from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;

 

(Numbers 13:13)  from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;

 

(Numbers 13:14)  from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;

 

(Numbers 13:15)  from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

 

(Numbers 13:16)  These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.

 

(Numbers 13:17)  Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, "Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country,

 

(Numbers 13:18)  and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many,

 

(Numbers 13:19)  and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds,

 

(Numbers 13:20)  and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.

 

(Numbers 13:21)  So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.

 

(Numbers 13:22)  They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

 

(Numbers 13:23)  And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs.

 

(Numbers 13:24)  That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there.

 

(Numbers 13:25)  At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

 

(Numbers 13:26)  And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

 

(Numbers 13:27)  And they told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

 

(Numbers 13:28)  However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

 

(Numbers 13:29)  The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan."

 

(Numbers 13:30)  But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it."

 

(Numbers 13:31)  Then the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are."

 

(Numbers 13:32)  So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.

 

(Numbers 13:33)  And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."

 

These evil reports bring rebellion again to the Israelites many who want to return to Egypt because of these bad reports. God is very angry with this rebellion and unbelief  on the part of most of the people and then sentences them all to wander in the wilderness for forty years, one year for each day of the reconnaissance expedition to Cannan, and promised that all of the rebels would die wandering in the wilderness and never see the Promised Land

(Numbers 14:1)  Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.

 

(Numbers 14:2)  And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

 

(Numbers 14:3)  Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?"

 

(Numbers 14:4)  And they said to one another, "Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt."

 

(Numbers 14:5)  Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.

 

(Numbers 14:6)  And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes

 

(Numbers 14:7)  and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.

 

(Numbers 14:8)  If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.

 

(Numbers 14:9)  Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them."

 

(Numbers 14:10)  Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.

 

(Numbers 14:11)  And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?

 

(Numbers 14:12)  I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

 

(Numbers 14:13)  But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them,

 

(Numbers 14:14)  and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O LORD, are in the midst of this people. For you, O LORD, are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

 

(Numbers 14:15)  Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,

 

(Numbers 14:16)  'It is because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.'

 

(Numbers 14:17)  And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying,

 

(Numbers 14:18)  'The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.'

 

(Numbers 14:19)  Please pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now."

 

(Numbers 14:20)  Then the LORD said, "I have pardoned, according to your word.

 

(Numbers 14:21)  But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD,

 

(Numbers 14:22)  none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice,

 

(Numbers 14:23)  shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.

 

(Numbers 14:24)  But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.

 

(Numbers 14:25)  Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

 

(Numbers 14:26)  And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

 

(Numbers 14:27)  "How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.

 

(Numbers 14:28)  Say to them, 'As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:

 

(Numbers 14:29)  your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,

 

(Numbers 14:30)  not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

 

(Numbers 14:31)  But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.

 

(Numbers 14:32)  But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

 

(Numbers 14:33)  And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

 

(Numbers 14:34)  According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.'

 

(Numbers 14:35)  I, the LORD, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die."

 

(Numbers 14:36)  And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing up a bad report about the land--

 

(Numbers 14:37)  the men who brought up a bad report of the land--died by plague before the LORD.

 

(Numbers 14:38)  Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive.

 

(Numbers 14:39)  When Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, the people mourned greatly.

 

(Numbers 14:40)  And they rose early in the morning and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, "Here we are. We will go up to the place that the LORD has promised, for we have sinned."

 

(Numbers 14:41)  But Moses said, "Why now are you transgressing the command of the LORD, when that will not succeed?

 

(Numbers 14:42)  Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, lest you be struck down before your enemies.

 

(Numbers 14:43)  For there the Amalekites and the Canaanites are facing you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned back from following the LORD, the LORD will not be with you."

 

(Numbers 14:44)  But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country, although neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed out of the camp.

 

(Numbers 14:45)  Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them and pursued them, even to Hormah.

 

In Numbers chapter 15, the Lord then makes various commands for offerings and the like when the people do in fact come to the Promised Land and for wrongdoing too among the people and others.

(Numbers 15:1)  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

 

(Numbers 15:2)  "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you,

 

(Numbers 15:3)  and you offer to the LORD from the herd or from the flock a food offering or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the LORD,

 

(Numbers 15:4)  then he who brings his offering shall offer to the LORD a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil;

 

(Numbers 15:5)  and you shall offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb.

 

(Numbers 15:6)  Or for a ram, you shall offer for a grain offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.

 

(Numbers 15:7)  And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

 

(Numbers 15:8)  And when you offer a bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or for peace offerings to the LORD,

 

(Numbers 15:9)  then one shall offer with the bull a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil.

 

(Numbers 15:10)  And you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

 

(Numbers 15:11)  "Thus it shall be done for each bull or ram, or for each lamb or young goat.

 

(Numbers 15:12)  As many as you offer, so shall you do with each one, as many as there are.

 

(Numbers 15:13)  Every native Israelite shall do these things in this way, in offering a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

 

(Numbers 15:14)  And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or anyone is living permanently among you, and he wishes to offer a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he shall do as you do.

 

(Numbers 15:15)  For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the LORD.

 

(Numbers 15:16)  One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."

 

(Numbers 15:17)  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

 

(Numbers 15:18)  "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you

 

(Numbers 15:19)  and when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall present a contribution to the LORD.

 

(Numbers 15:20)  Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.

 

(Numbers 15:21)  Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD as a contribution throughout your generations.

 

(Numbers 15:22)  "But if you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses,

 

(Numbers 15:23)  all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations,

 

(Numbers 15:24)  then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one male goat for a sin offering.

 

(Numbers 15:25)  And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD for their mistake.

 

(Numbers 15:26)  And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake.

 

(Numbers 15:27)  "If one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.

 

(Numbers 15:28)  And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.

 

(Numbers 15:29)  You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them.

 

(Numbers 15:30)  But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

 

(Numbers 15:31)  Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him."

 

(Numbers 15:32)  While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

 

(Numbers 15:33)  And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation.

 

(Numbers 15:34)  They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him.

 

(Numbers 15:35)  And the LORD said to Moses, "The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp."

 

(Numbers 15:36)  And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.

 

(Numbers 15:37)  The LORD said to Moses,

 

(Numbers 15:38)  "Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner.

 

(Numbers 15:39)  And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.

 

(Numbers 15:40)  So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.

 

(Numbers 15:41)  I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD your God."

 

In Numbers chapter 16, is the whole story of Korah’s rebellion from its start with Korah’s complaints, then how Moses and the Lord deal with it with their interactions with the people and then later including the judgments which include swallowing some of the people and possession up in the earth and others being consumed by fire for offering the incense. The people accuse Moses and Aaron of the events and killing the people when it really was God’s judgment on the rebels and are then promptly hit with a plague and only Moses’ and Aaron’s intercession stops it or it could have killed all of the people save for a few like Moses and Aaron

(Numbers 16:1)  Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men.

 

(Numbers 16:2)  And they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, 250 chiefs of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men.

 

(Numbers 16:3)  They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?"

 

(Numbers 16:4)  When Moses heard it, he fell on his face,

 

(Numbers 16:5)  and he said to Korah and all his company, "In the morning the LORD will show who is his, and who is holy, and will bring him near to him. The one whom he chooses he will bring near to him.

 

(Numbers 16:6)  Do this: take censers, Korah and all his company;

 

(Numbers 16:7)  put fire in them and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow, and the man whom the LORD chooses shall be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!"

 

(Numbers 16:8)  And Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you sons of Levi:

 

(Numbers 16:9)  is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the congregation to minister to them,

 

(Numbers 16:10)  and that he has brought you near him, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? And would you seek the priesthood also?

 

(Numbers 16:11)  Therefore it is against the LORD that you and all your company have gathered together. What is Aaron that you grumble against him?"

 

(Numbers 16:12)  And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and they said, "We will not come up.

 

(Numbers 16:13)  Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us?

 

(Numbers 16:14)  Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up."

 

(Numbers 16:15)  And Moses was very angry and said to the LORD, "Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed one of them."

 

(Numbers 16:16)  And Moses said to Korah, "Be present, you and all your company, before the LORD, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.

 

(Numbers 16:17)  And let every one of you take his censer and put incense on it, and every one of you bring before the LORD his censer, 250 censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer."

 

(Numbers 16:18)  So every man took his censer and put fire in them and laid incense on them and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

 

(Numbers 16:19)  Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation.

 

(Numbers 16:20)  And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

 

(Numbers 16:21)  "Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."

 

(Numbers 16:22)  And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?"

 

(Numbers 16:23)  And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

 

(Numbers 16:24)  "Say to the congregation, Get away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram."

 

(Numbers 16:25)  Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.

 

(Numbers 16:26)  And he spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins."

 

(Numbers 16:27)  So they got away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.

 

(Numbers 16:28)  And Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord.

 

(Numbers 16:29)  If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the LORD has not sent me.

 

(Numbers 16:30)  But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD."

 

(Numbers 16:31)  And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart.

 

(Numbers 16:32)  And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods.

 

(Numbers 16:33)  So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

 

(Numbers 16:34)  And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!"

 

(Numbers 16:35)  And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men offering the incense.

 

(Numbers 16:36)  Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

 

(Numbers 16:37)  "Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze. Then scatter the fire far and wide, for they have become holy.

 

(Numbers 16:38)  As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the LORD, and they became holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel."

 

(Numbers 16:39)  So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar,

 

(Numbers 16:40)  to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his company--as the LORD said to him through Moses.

 

(Numbers 16:41)  But on the next day all the congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of the LORD."

 

(Numbers 16:42)  And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting. And behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.

 

(Numbers 16:43)  And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting,

 

(Numbers 16:44)  and the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

 

(Numbers 16:45)  "Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces.

 

(Numbers 16:46)  And Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun."

 

(Numbers 16:47)  So Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had already begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.

 

(Numbers 16:48)  And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.

 

(Numbers 16:49)  Now those who died in the plague were 14,700, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.

 

(Numbers 16:50)  And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, when the plague was stopped.

Here is the other bible study in the book of numbers at this link continuing the story of Israel's journey

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/book-of-numbers-bible-study-chapters-17-through-25-31-and-32/10200702331014240

 

In these chapters the people of Israel very severely try God’s patience to the point that God has no choice but to bring judgment on them. It is His plan to discipline errant people. Yet they would eventually make the promised land. It is only due to God’s mercy and Moses’ intercession that they all did not get wiped out save for a few. God is just as merciful to us today, having sent Jesus to atone for all of our sins and wrongdoings. Jesus willingly and gladly paid the price for all of our sins so we could have fellowship and a love relationship with God which cannot be compared with anything else. I am now adding a prayer to help with this, to establish or restore this wonderful relationship for God welcomes anyone back even if they had drifted away for whatever reasons. Please do pray this prayer with me

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours