40 years
......... Actually, it was supposed to take 11 days! Disobedience and lack of trust kept them wandering around for an extra 39 years ... until that generation had died out and only Joshua and Caleb were left.
A matter of days.
The Children of Israel were not emotionally ready for the difficulties required to be free men in charge of their own destiny and forging through an unknown wilderness.
It was the Arc Of The covenant.
Amalek (Exodus 17)
A matter of months, at most.
Deuteronomy (chapter 1). It speaks of a particular distance, not the entire time they were in the wilderness (which was forty years).
The children of Israel, consisting of 600,000 footmen, plus women and children and old men were sustained in the wilderness for 40 years on manna and water from the rock, and living in tents and their shoes and clothes did not wear out.
According to the Bible, the Children of Israel eat Manna, a substance provided to them from heaven on a daily basis.
The countryside of Israel.
Numbers chapter 14. Through most of the chapter you can read of the disobiedience of the children of Israel. In verses 26 through 39 tells of the ones whos carcasses fell in the wilderness.
"The church in the wilderness" refers to the concept of the Israelites as the chosen people of God during their time wandering in the desert after fleeing slavery in Egypt. It represents their journey toward the Promised Land and their faithfulness to God despite challenges and hardships.
No.
To the Holy Land, which they named Israel (Joshua 11:16,21; Judges 19:29; 1 Samuel 11:3, 13:1,9).