Estonia Sings to the Well
This post is an update from April 23, 2010. Bible links are from biblegateway.com . When the Israelites marched out of Egypt into the desert, they were unaccustomed to desert living, so of course they were terrified and angry when in the first month of their escape, they arrived at a location called Kadesh in the Negev. The wells they expected to find there did not materialize and the whole community thought they might die a slow and horrible death without water. They did what people do--they forgot all the miracles of the past and griped that Moses brought them there to die. God commanded Moses to speak to a rock, and the rock would bring forth water, but instead of speaking, a very annoyed Moses struck it twice in anger. As a result, both Moses and Aaron were banned from entering the Promised Land. ( Numbers 20:2-13 ) So the Israelites trudged on from Kadesh and came to another dry place, but this time they didn't panic. The leaders got busy and dug a well right where the...