Entering the Promised Land
Finally, some good news for Israel
When the Israelites reach the Promised Land, they discover it to be exactly what God said it would be: a rich land full of good things. Unfortunately, people already live there! Big, well armed people. And so the people lose heart and refuse to go in.
As a consequence for their faithlessness, God sends them out to wander for forty years, until the adult…
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