How careful the Lord was to have Moses write down the route the Israelites followed from Egypt through the wilderness and the wandering into the Promised Land. It might not sound like such a task unless you consider that they traveled FORTY years. Yet, while we know they traveled for forty years, no record was made of how long they camped at the individual places.
What really impressed me were the instructions the Lord gave Moses about driving out ALL the people living in the land of Canaan. ALL of their carved and molten images and pagan shrines were to be destroyed. The land was distributed and divided by sacred lot, with larger portions of land going to the larger tribes.
Verses 55 and 56 include a prediction: “But if you fail to drive out the people who live in the land, those who remain will be like splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land where you live. And I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.
Those are very descriptive words. Have you ever had a splinter in your eye? You can’t think of another thing and it’s extremely painful.
God was very clear about what land belonged to the Israelites. Too bad our UN and the Arabs don’t realize the truth.
Tomorrow, it’s the last two chapters of Numbers: 35 – 36. Only one more book and we will be done with the Pentateuch. Before the month of March is done, we will have read all of the way through Joshua. Wow!
Until next time.
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