Numbers 14:27

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”

For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you complain against him?”

But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!”

Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.

“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”

God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

“You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”

As Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, Yahweh’s glory appeared in the cloud.

“I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.

You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’ ”

Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.

For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.

“The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.

When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,

Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.

All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

Korah assembled all the congregation opposite them to the door of the Tent of Meeting. Yahweh’s glory appeared to all the congregation.

Yahweh’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying,

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.

Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”

because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

“Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around. Let none of it escape. Pay her back according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.

The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’

You will know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been laid desolate. They have been given us to devour.’

He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

In the morning, you shall see Yahweh’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?”

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.”

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”

Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?