We, too, are strangers and pilgrims in a wilderness ... Are you at your Kadesh-Barnea? Will it be a Waterloo for you, too? Chapters 14-20 are the only chapters covering the 38 years of Wilderness Wanderings. A few incidents, glossing over the wasted years.
Why study the Book of Numbers? ''Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.'' - 1 Corinthians 10:11. That word ''examples'' in the Greek is ''tupos'' - a figure, image, pattern, a prefiguring; a type.