LESSON 18

Israel in the Wilderness

1. How did God lead Israel in the wilderness?

By a pillar of cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

2. How did God feed Israel?

God rained manna from heaven and gave them water from the rock.

3. How did God clothe them in the wilderness?

Israel’s clothes and sandals did not wear out.

4. What did God give Israel at Sinai?

God gave them the law.

5. What did God tell Moses to build?

A tabernacle to worship God.

6. How did Israel sin at Sinai?

They served a golden calf.

7. Which other sins did they commit in the desert?

They cried for meat, and they thought God could not give them water.

8. What did Moses do when Israel came near Canaan?

Moses sent out twelve men to spy out the land.

9. Did these spies bring a good report?

Two of them did, but the others made the people afraid.

10. What did Israel do when they heard the evil report?

They wanted to go back to Egypt.

“O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.” Psalm 136:26