Quotes About Destiny

Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”

Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?

Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”

Then Balaam arose and returned to his homeland, and Balak also went on his way.

Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

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—

We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has taken possession of his inheritance.

Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”

You are to take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.

And then I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.”

These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,

Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land.

The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

Then the LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”

Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.

For I will not be crossing the Jordan, because I must die in this land. But you shall cross over and take possession of that good land.

Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Then the LORD said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”

The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.

I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ëYou shall not cross the Jordan.í