5 Bible Verses about Israel In The Wilderness

And just as Moses in the desert lifted the serpent on the pole, the Son of Man must be lifted up,

It was he who brought them out of Egypt by performing wonders and signs there and at the Red Sea -- as he did also in the desert for forty years.

This is the one who in the congregation in the desert went between the angel, who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and our forefathers, who also received, to be handed down to you, utterances that still live.

So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the starry host, as it is written in the Book of the Prophets: 'Did you really offer me victims and sacrifices those forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

You must not harden your hearts as they did in provoking me, as on the day in the desert they tested me,