For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: {to overthrow: Heb. to make them fall}

Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in {both} which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know {them}, and be established in the present truth.

Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,

Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know {them}, and be established in the present truth.

But with whom was he grieved forty years? {was it} not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, {and} as {in} the day of temptation in the wilderness: {provocation: Heb. contention}

Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.

Therefore the LORD heard {this}, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

And five of them were wise, and five {were} foolish.

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: {the pleasant...: Heb. a land of desire}

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

For if God spared not the natural branches, {take heed} lest he also spare not thee.

If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies. {fetch: Heb. take unto us}

Then I saw, {and} considered {it} well: I looked upon {it, and} received instruction. {considered...: Heb. set my heart}

Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, {was} thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them. {brook: or, valley}

For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I {am} the LORD.