Numbers 14

Today we read about the results of the folly from the previous chapter. I'm not sure how the Israelites could be so cowardly after everything God had done for them! I wish the things I needed to do in life were as simple as taking a massive army and attacking a land God had promised to give me :/ Or perhaps they are, and I just don't see it?

I'm also amazed that Moses hasn't taken God up on the offer given in verse 12: "I will strike them with the pestilence, and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!" (NET). This isn't the first time that God gave Moses this option, but I gues by this point Moses had given a lot for the Israelites and must have cared for them a great deal. I wonder how history might have been different, though, if he had accepted...