Quotes about Challenges

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)

Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”

Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”

Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”

Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron.

Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The 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.’”

When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”

You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.