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In Numbers, chapter thirty-three, verse fifty-five, if the Israelites failed to wholly drive out the wicked Canaanites and destroy their idolatrous worship centers, God would cause those Canaanites to give them trouble, and He will judge them. If the children of Israel are to be thoughtless, careless, indifferent to it, and not make use of […]

In Numbers, chapter thirty-two, verse twenty, Moses said, to the children of Israel, “If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the Lord to war,” and continued to instruct the other tribes. Moses would allow the tribes of Reuben and Gad, also the half-tribe of Manasseh as in verse thirty-three, to

In Numbers, chapter thirty-one, verse three, the Lord speaks to Moses concerning the Midianites. Moses addresses the people in obedience to the divine command from the Lord to avenge the children of Israel to prepare some of six hundred thousand men and upwards, only some of them, and these choose and select men. Good men,

In Numbers, chapter thirty, verse two, Moses speaks to the leaders of the tribes regarding the children of Israel in terms of what the Lord commanded. The verse makes it clear a vow that God requires His people to keep their promises to Him and others. Through these laws, He impresses on them the severe

In Numbers, chapter twenty-eight, verse three, the Lord speaks to Moses concerning a continual burnt offering from the people of Israel. Chapters twenty-eight and twenty-nine stress the importance of continual sacrifices and offerings made to the Lord. They were to be made daily on weekly sabbath days at the beginning of each month on certain

In Numbers, chapter twenty-seven, verse eighteen, “Spirit” here refers to the Holy Spirit. Among Joshua’s many qualifications for leadership, the greatest is that he was spirit-led. As a man who was anointed and proven himself open to being led by the Spirit of the Lord, he was predominantly qualified to be commissioned and invested with

In Numbers, chapter twenty-seven, verse four, Hebrew law made no provision for the inheritance of the land if a father had no sons. God, therefore established the act that the father’s daughter could inherit the family’s share of the land. The law shows the place of dignity and honors the women given in Israel. “Why

In Numbers, chapter twenty-five, verse eleven, Phinehas’ holy anger reacted to the moral degeneration and idolatry among God’s people. His exceptional zeal for God’s honor was evident in his love of righteousness and hatred of sin, as God Himself shows His enthusiasm typifies the enthusiasm of Christ for God’s holiness. The Lord gave Phinehas the

In Numbers, chapter twenty-five, verse two, the Israelites called upon the people to the sacrifices of their gods: where the people did eat and bowed down to their gods. The Israelites began to commit whoredom with some of the daughters of Moab when they arrived in a place called Shittim. The area is enormous in

In Numbers, chapter twenty-four, verse two, the Spirit coming upon Balaam here is not synonymous with the filling with the Spirit recorded in the New Testament in Acts two, one through four. The Spirit came upon him for revelation, not for the endorsement as a prophet. God occasionally does use individuals who are not in