Quotes About Trust

But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard about them.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD had commanded Moses,

and said, “Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one of us is missing.

Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land that the LORD has given them?

For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.

ëBecause they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—

not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun—because they did follow the LORD wholeheartedly.í

and if every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the LORD, until He has driven His enemies out before Him,

The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses, “Your servants will do just as our lord commands.

The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “As the LORD has spoken to your servants, so we will do.

They set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”

Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”

But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.

You grumbled in your tents and said, “Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be annihilated.

Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ëThe people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.í”

So I said to you: “Do not be terrified or afraid of them!

The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt

and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”

But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,

who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.

The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.

“We have sinned against the LORD,” you replied. “We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God has commanded us.” Then each of you put on his weapons of war, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.

But the LORD said to me, “Tell them not to go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from defeat by your enemies.”