Joshua 24:7 Cross References - NSB

⁷ they cried out to me for help. I put darkness between them and the Egyptians. I made the sea come rolling over the Egyptians and drown them. You know what I did to Egypt. You lived in the desert a long time.

¹⁰ The Israelites saw the king coming with his army. They were frightened and begged Jehovah for help.

²⁰ So it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud along with the darkness, yet it gave light at night. Thus the one did not come near the other all night.

²⁷ Moses held out his hand over the sea. At daybreak the water returned to its normal level. The Egyptians tried to escape from the water. But Jehovah threw them into the sea. ²⁸ The water returned and covered the chariots, the drivers, and all the Egyptian army that had followed the Israelites into the sea. None of them were left.

³¹ The Israelites saw the great power with which Jehovah had defeated the Egyptians. So they stood in awe of Jehovah. They had faith in Jehovah and in his servant Moses.

⁴⁶ That is why you stayed in Kadesh as long as you did.

³³ »‘Your children will be shepherds in the desert for forty years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies dead in the desert. ³⁴ »‘You explored the land for forty days. So for forty years, one year for each day, you will suffer for your sins and know what it means for me to be against you.’

³⁴ »Has God attempted to take a nation from the middle of another nation? Has he done this by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by great terrors? Yes, and by the use of his great power! Jehovah your God did all this for you in Egypt before your very eyes!

² Moses called together all the people of Israel and said: »You saw for yourselves what Jehovah did to the king of Egypt, to his officials, and to his entire country.

⁶ The children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of Jehovah. Jehovah swore that he would not show them the land, which he swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.

¹⁸ »Even when they made for themselves a bull out of metal, and said: ‘This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry.’ ¹⁹ »Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud still went before them by day, guiding them on their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light, and make clear the way they were to go. ²⁰ »You gave your good Spirit to be their teacher. You did not hold back your manna from their mouths. You gave them water when they had need of it. ²¹ »Truly, for forty years you were their support in the wilderness. They needed nothing. Their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.

¹² »And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go. ¹³ »You came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders. ¹⁴ »They received word of your holy Sabbath from you. You gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant. ¹⁵ »They received bread from heaven when they were in need, and you made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land that your hand give them. ¹⁶ »But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and paid no attention to your orders. ¹⁷ »They would not obey you and gave no thought to the wonders you did among them. They became stubborn and turning away from you. They appointed a leader over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt. However, you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

⁹ Your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work. ¹⁰ For forty years I was grieved with this generation. I said: »It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.«

¹⁷ »The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they lived as strangers in the land of Egypt. He brought them out of Egypt with his great strength. ¹⁸ »He cared for them and endured their bad conduct in the wilderness for forty years.

¹⁷ With whom was he disgusted for forty years? He was disgusted and angry with those who sinned and died in the desert.