8 March 2020, Chronological Bible Reading, Numbers 33 to 34.
My wife, Lori, and I are reading through the Bible in chronological order, which is the order in which the events happened. Her blog on this can be found here. This is not intended to be a lesson or a sermon. It is my thoughts and notes as I read through the text and as I sometimes look things up. Today we read Numbers 33 to 34.
Numbers 33
This chapter summarizes the travel the nation of Israel had completed, from when they first left Egypt, up to preparing to enter the land of Canaan. We are reminded that God had struck down the Egyptians’ firstborn and executed judgments on the Egyptian gods.
Israel is reminded to drive out all the inhabitants of the land, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places. God had given them the land. They were inherit the land by lot according to their families; larger tribes got more inheritance, and smaller received less inheritance. God warned them, “if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come about that those whom you let remain of them will become as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land in which you live. And as I plan to do to them, so I will do to you.”
Numbers 34
This chapter contains instructions for apportioning the land. God gave the boundaries of the land. And he said they were to divide the land among the nine and one half tribes. The other two and one half tribes had received their land east of the Jordon river. God told them who would be apportioning the land – Elizear, Joshua, and a leader from each tribe or half tribe.
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