2024
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10:14-22 “Circumcise your heart, and stiffen your neck no longer. For Yahweh your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, the fearsome God” When Yahweh appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, He swore to them in covenant that their seed would be a great nation in which…
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7:7-11 “Yahweh loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your fathers, and Yahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. You shall therefore know that Yahweh your God, He is God, the faithful God” Moses begins…
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‘To you it was shown that you might know that Yahweh, He is God; there is no other besides Him” This chapter closes the preamble of Moses’s great exposition of the laws Israel has received since the nation’s founding at Mount Sinai. The incident with the Midianite women and their gods is a graphic the…
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3:21-22 And Moses commanded Joshua at that time, saying, “Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings; so Yahweh shall do to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross. Do not fear them, for Yahweh your God is the one fighting for you.” Despite recording…
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35:34 “You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell; for I Yahweh am dwelling in the midst of the sons of Israel.” As we come to the conclusion of Numbers, Yahweh puts the finishing touches on the commands to apportion the land. The 23,000 Levites will…
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At this point, there is a recounting of the the journey from Egypt to their current resting place of Shittim on the plains of Moab. The first sixteen verses of this chapter review what has already been documented, from Egypt to Sinai, but after this we see the details of another journey. The date given…
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After the failure to inherit the land in the heart of this book of Scripture, the latter section of Numbers continues to lay the groundwork for the second attempt to conquer the land and fulfill God’s vision which He swore to the fathers. The three chapters in this reading divide the subjects well. The baseline…
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All of the listed offerings in this passage signify passage of time or a date on the calendar. Each one is obligatory, a fact that sandwiches this section (28:1-2, 29:39) These ceremonies facilitated devotion: everyday, every week, every month, and annual feasts throughout year to remember specific aspects about the people’s relationship with God. This…
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