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It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt";
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They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?
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Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."
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The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
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and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
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All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
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All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
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Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?"
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They said one to another, "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt."
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Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, "You shall not go back that way again."
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The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, "What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart."
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Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, 'Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.'" Twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
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yet if they shall repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, 'We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;'
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and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn't forsake them.
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Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.
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For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
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Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
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saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'
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Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
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Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.
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to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
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But Paul didn't think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn't go with them to do the work.
17 à 22 De Succoth à Etham
La route ordinaire des caravanes pour le pays de Canaan allait au Nord-Est en se rapprochant de la côte de la Méditerranée. Mais par ce chemin, les Israélites seraient arrivés en douze à quinze jours à la frontière méridionale de Canaan, et là, ils se seraient trouvés en face du peuple belliqueux des Philistins et n'auraient pu passer sans se mettre en guerre avec lui.
Nourri dans la servitude, faible encore dans la foi, Israël n'était pas préparé à une telle rencontre. D'ailleurs, il résulte de Genèse 15.19-21 et d'Exode 3.8 que les Philistins n'étaient pas au nombre des peuples qui devaient être dépossédés à ce moment-là. Dieu avait donc décidé de faire passer Israël par une autre route, celle qu'il avait indiquée dès l'abord à Moïse, quand à Sinaï il lui avait donné pour signe (3.12) le culte que le peuple lui rendrait un jour au pied de cette montagne même.
Ce fut cette marche étrange, en sens opposé au but, qui acheva d'aveugler Pharaon, une fois remis de son premier mouvement de terreur.
Que le peuple se repente : 14.10-12 montre bien que cette crainte était fondée sur la connaissance que Dieu avait des dispositions du peuple.
Les chemins divins sont des chemins de droiture, malgré leurs apparences, qui parfois nous déroutent. Si nous pensons que Dieu ne conduit pas Son peuple par le plus court chemin, soyons persuadés qu'Il le conduit au mieux, ce qui se vérifie à la fin du voyage. Les Philistins étaient des ennemis puissants ; il était nécessaire que les Israélites fussent préparés, pour faire la guerre en Canaan : ils devaient traverser les difficultés de la route dans le désert. Dieu envoie des épreuves à Son peuple, qui sont toujours proportionnelles à sa force, 1Corinthiens 10:13. Les Israélites partirent en bon ordre, par groupes de cinq ; ils étaient militairement bien rangés, ce qui leur donnait un certain potentiel. Ils prirent avec eux les os de Joseph. C'était un encouragement pour leur foi et leur espérance : cela signifiait bien que Dieu devait, par leur intermédiaire, conduire ces os en Canaan, au travers du désert.