God: Preserver in the Wilderness

Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey. …

Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent, the Israelites would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp. …

So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.

But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”

How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the LORD has not denounced?

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.”

Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.