(1462 - 982 480 years of 1 Kings 6:1)
A. From the Red Sea to Sinai
1. Song of Victory - Exodus 15:1-21
2. Through the wilderness of Shur - Exodus 15:22
3. To Marah - Numbers 33:8; Exodus 15:23-26
4. From Marah to Elim - Exodus 15:27; Numbers 33:9
5. From Elim to Wilderness of Sin - Numbers 33:10-11; Exodus 16:1
a. Murmuring about lack of food - Exodus 16:2-3
b. Manna promised - Exodus 16:4-13
c. Manna provided - Exodus 16:14-36
d. Law of the Sabbath - Exodus 16:23-30
6. From Wilderness of Sin to Rephidim - Exodus 17:1; Numbers 33:12-14
a. Murmuring about lack of water - Exodus 17:2-4
b. Water from Rock Horeb - Exodus 17:5-7
c. Conflict with Amalek - Exodus 17:8-16
d. Relatives visit Moses - Exodus 18:1-12
e. Jethro's wise counsel - Exodus 18:13-27
7. From Rephidim to Sinai - Exodus 19:1-2; Numbers 33:15
Someone had requested that I include the page numbers ~ please note I am using the Reese Chronological Bible ~ this section covered pages 140-146
Exodus 15:24 - And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
Father just delivered them in an astounding fashion and they are WHINING?
murmured - H3885 - A primitive root; to stop (usually over night); by implication to stay permanently; hence (in a bad sense) to be obstinate (especially in words, to complain).
The word murmured is used 19 times in 19 verses. Murmur, 7 times in 6 verses. Murmurings, 8 times in 7 verses.
The Hebrew word represented by 3885 is used 84 times in 79 verses. I'd like to deceive myself and think, no way would I have been discontented after having just been miraculously delivered from the Egyptian army, watching them drown and their bodies washing up on the seashore.
But really, how often does Father deliver me from temptation, sin, wickedness, death and I treat it contemptuously, desiring even more? How often do I have a God you owe me attitude? Far too often. What a humbling thought.
The first usage of the word H3885 is in Genesis 19:2 - I had to stop and ponder upon this one:
And he (Lot) said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay, but we will abide in the street all night.
After browsing the OT for murmur, murmurings, murmured...checked the NT.
Php 2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Think I have just been 'schooled' :-D and as a follow up reminder to NOT be like the Israelites:
1Co 10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
Wilderness of Sin...gotta love it. Where I end up because of murmuring...the wilderness of sin.
wilderness - H4057 - From H1696 in the sense of driving; a pasture (that is, open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication a desert; also speech (including its organs).
sin - H5512 - Of uncertain derivation; Sin, the name of an Egyptian town and (probably) desert adjoining.
I realize this 'sin' is not the same as sin (H2398 or H264), it did however, seem an appropriate location (whether physical, mental, emotional) for those who are in rebellion and 'murmuring' against the Lord.
Gill:
and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which still bears the same name, as a late traveller (a) informs us, who passed through it, and says, we traversed these plains in nine hours, being all the way diverted with the sight of a variety of lizards and vipers, that are here in great numbers; and elsewhere (b) he says, that vipers, especially in the wilderness of Sin which might very properly be called "the inheritance of dragons", were very dangerous and troublesome, not only our camels, but the Arabs who attended them, running every moment the risk of being bitten. The Red sea, or the bay of it, they came to from Elim, according to Bunting (c) was six miles, and from thence to the wilderness of Sin, sixteen more. This is a different wilderness from that of Zin, which is written with a different letter, Num_20:1 and was on the other side of Mount Sinai, as this was the way to it.
H2398 - A primitive root; properly to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn.
G264 - Perhaps from G1 (as a negative particle) and the base of G3313; properly to miss the mark (and so not share in the prize), that is, (figuratively) to err, especially (morally) to sin.
Lest we be discouraged:
1Jn 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Thank you Lord!
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