Numbers bible study chapters 17 through 25;31 and 32

 

            Here are the next group of chapters in numbers chronicling the continuing adventures of Israel in the wilderness where they are doomed to walk for their disobedience, rebellion and disbelief of what Moses told them. In this next group of chapters more events happen such as Moses losing his right to go to the promised land due to disobedience, the bronze serpent and also Balaam and the talking donkey. This is a continuation of the previous study and here is a link to that study here

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In Numbers chapter 17 there is a test of staves to determine who is to serve as priests, the one which sprouts is the one. It ends up being to the Levites, and this is placed where people can see it as a testimony

(Numbers 17:1)  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

 

(Numbers 17:2)  "Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them staffs, one for each fathers' house, from all their chiefs according to their fathers' houses, twelve staffs. Write each man's name on his staff,

 

(Numbers 17:3)  and write Aaron's name on the staff of Levi. For there shall be one staff for the head of each fathers' house.

 

(Numbers 17:4)  Then you shall deposit them in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.

 

(Numbers 17:5)  And the staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout. Thus I will make to cease from me the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against you."

 

(Numbers 17:6)  Moses spoke to the people of Israel. And all their chiefs gave him staffs, one for each chief, according to their fathers' houses, twelve staffs. And the staff of Aaron was among their staffs.

 

(Numbers 17:7)  And Moses deposited the staffs before the LORD in the tent of the testimony.

 

(Numbers 17:8)  On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.

 

(Numbers 17:9)  Then Moses brought out all the staffs from before the LORD to all the people of Israel. And they looked, and each man took his staff.

 

(Numbers 17:10)  And the LORD said to Moses, "Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their grumblings against me, lest they die."

 

(Numbers 17:11)  Thus did Moses; as the LORD commanded him, so he did.

 

(Numbers 17:12)  And the people of Israel said to Moses, "Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.

 

(Numbers 17:13)  Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, shall die. Are we all to perish?"

 

In Numbers chapter 18 the various duties responsibilities are given to the group of Levites who are indeed to be the priests of Israel

(Numbers 18:1)  So the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's house with you shall bear iniquity connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity connected with your priesthood.

 

(Numbers 18:2)  And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

 

(Numbers 18:3)  They shall keep guard over you and over the whole tent, but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar lest they, and you, die.

 

(Numbers 18:4)  They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, and no outsider shall come near you.

 

(Numbers 18:5)  And you shall keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.

 

(Numbers 18:6)  And behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the people of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to the LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

 

(Numbers 18:7)  And you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death."

 

(Numbers 18:8)  Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.

 

(Numbers 18:9)  This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every guilt offering of theirs, which they render to me, shall be most holy to you and to your sons.

 

(Numbers 18:10)  In a most holy place shall you eat it. Every male may eat it; it is holy to you.

 

(Numbers 18:11)  This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.

 

(Numbers 18:12)  All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the LORD, I give to you.

 

(Numbers 18:13)  The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.

 

(Numbers 18:14)  Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.

 

(Numbers 18:15)  Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the LORD, shall be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn of man you shall redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.

 

(Numbers 18:16)  And their redemption price (at a month old you shall redeem them) you shall fix at five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

 

(Numbers 18:17)  But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall burn their fat as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

 

(Numbers 18:18)  But their flesh shall be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right thigh are yours.

 

(Numbers 18:19)  All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your offspring with you."

 

(Numbers 18:20)  And the LORD said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.

 

(Numbers 18:21)  "To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting,

 

(Numbers 18:22)  so that the people of Israel do not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.

 

(Numbers 18:23)  But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

 

(Numbers 18:24)  For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as a contribution to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance among the people of Israel."

 

(Numbers 18:25)  And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

 

(Numbers 18:26)  "Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, 'When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the LORD, a tithe of the tithe.

 

(Numbers 18:27)  And your contribution shall be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.

 

(Numbers 18:28)  So you shall also present a contribution to the LORD from all your tithes, which you receive from the people of Israel. And from it you shall give the LORD's contribution to Aaron the priest.

 

(Numbers 18:29)  Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every contribution due to the LORD; from each its best part is to be dedicated.'

 

(Numbers 18:30)  Therefore you shall say to them, 'When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the winepress.

 

(Numbers 18:31)  And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

 

(Numbers 18:32)  And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.'"

 

In chapter 19 a sacrifice is given and various rules are given for dealing with some of the unclean things

(Numbers 19:1)  Now the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

 

(Numbers 19:2)  "This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come.

 

(Numbers 19:3)  And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him.

 

(Numbers 19:4)  And Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.

 

(Numbers 19:5)  And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned.

 

(Numbers 19:6)  And the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer.

 

(Numbers 19:7)  Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. But the priest shall be unclean until evening.

 

(Numbers 19:8)  The one who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and shall be unclean until evening.

 

(Numbers 19:9)  And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place. And they shall be kept for the water for impurity for the congregation of the people of Israel; it is a sin offering.

 

(Numbers 19:10)  And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. And this shall be a perpetual statute for the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.

 

(Numbers 19:11)  "Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days.

 

(Numbers 19:12)  He shall cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean.

 

(Numbers 19:13)  Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.

 

(Numbers 19:14)  "This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days.

 

(Numbers 19:15)  And every open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean.

 

(Numbers 19:16)  Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

 

(Numbers 19:17)  For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh water shall be added in a vessel.

 

(Numbers 19:18)  Then a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave.

 

(Numbers 19:19)  And the clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. Thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean.

 

(Numbers 19:20)  "If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.

 

(Numbers 19:21)  And it shall be a statute forever for them. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

 

(Numbers 19:22)  And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening."

 

Numbers chapter 20 the people of Israel again complain for lack of water, but this time Moses and Aaron disobey God by striking the rock twice when they were to tell the rock to produce its water. As a result of this Moses and Aaron can no longer go to the Promised Land with the people, but Aaron dies in the chapter instead.

(Numbers 20:1)  And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there.

 

(Numbers 20:2)  Now there was no water for the congregation. And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

 

(Numbers 20:3)  And the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD!

 

(Numbers 20:4)  Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?

 

(Numbers 20:5)  And why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink."

 

(Numbers 20:6)  Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tent of meeting and fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them,

 

(Numbers 20:7)  and the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

 

(Numbers 20:8)  "Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle."

 

(Numbers 20:9)  And Moses took the staff from before the LORD, as he commanded him.

 

(Numbers 20:10)  Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?"

 

(Numbers 20:11)  And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.

 

(Numbers 20:12)  And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them."

 

(Numbers 20:13)  These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel quarreled with the LORD, and through them he showed himself holy.

 

(Numbers 20:14)  Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the hardship that we have met:

 

(Numbers 20:15)  how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers.

 

(Numbers 20:16)  And when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.

 

(Numbers 20:17)  Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, or drink water from a well. We will go along the King's Highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory."

 

(Numbers 20:18)  But Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through, lest I come out with the sword against you."

 

(Numbers 20:19)  And the people of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway, and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then I will pay for it. Let me only pass through on foot, nothing more."

 

(Numbers 20:20)  But he said, "You shall not pass through." And Edom came out against them with a large army and with a strong force.

 

(Numbers 20:21)  Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from him.

 

(Numbers 20:22)  And they journeyed from Kadesh, and the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.

 

(Numbers 20:23)  And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom,

 

(Numbers 20:24)  "Let Aaron be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land that I have given to the people of Israel, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.

 

(Numbers 20:25)  Take Aaron and Eleazar his son and bring them up to Mount Hor.

 

(Numbers 20:26)  And strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron shall be gathered to his people and shall die there."

 

(Numbers 20:27)  Moses did as the LORD commanded. And they went up Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.

 

(Numbers 20:28)  And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

 

(Numbers 20:29)  And when all the congregation saw that Aaron had perished, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.

 

In Numbers chapter 21 first Israel yet again complains about the lack of water and food that they hate and wind up with serpents biting many so Moses intercedes and makes a bronze serpent for the bitten to look on. Then people groups go against Israel like Sihon and Og, but both are soundly defeated and the land taken from them

(Numbers 21:1)  When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

 

(Numbers 21:2)  And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD and said, "If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction."

 

(Numbers 21:3)  And the LORD heeded the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they devoted them and their cities to destruction. So the name of the place was called Hormah.

 

(Numbers 21:4)  From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way.

 

(Numbers 21:5)  And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food."

 

(Numbers 21:6)  Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.

 

(Numbers 21:7)  And the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people.

 

(Numbers 21:8)  And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live."

 

(Numbers 21:9)  So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.

 

(Numbers 21:10)  And the people of Israel set out and camped in Oboth.

 

(Numbers 21:11)  And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness that is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise.

 

(Numbers 21:12)  From there they set out and camped in the Valley of Zered.

 

(Numbers 21:13)  From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

 

(Numbers 21:14)  Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, "Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of the Arnon,

 

(Numbers 21:15)  and the slope of the valleys that extends to the seat of Ar, and leans to the border of Moab."

 

(Numbers 21:16)  And from there they continued to Beer; that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people together, so that I may give them water."

 

(Numbers 21:17)  Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well!--Sing to it!--

 

(Numbers 21:18)  the well that the princes made, that the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter and with their staffs." And from the wilderness they went on to Mattanah,

 

(Numbers 21:19)  and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,

 

(Numbers 21:20)  and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah that looks down on the desert.

 

(Numbers 21:21)  Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

 

(Numbers 21:22)  "Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or vineyard. We will not drink the water of a well. We will go by the King's Highway until we have passed through your territory."

 

(Numbers 21:23)  But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered all his people together and went out against Israel to the wilderness and came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.

 

(Numbers 21:24)  And Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strong.

 

(Numbers 21:25)  And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

 

(Numbers 21:26)  For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.

 

(Numbers 21:27)  Therefore the ballad singers say, "Come to Heshbon, let it be built; let the city of Sihon be established.

 

(Numbers 21:28)  For fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, and swallowed the heights of the Arnon.

 

(Numbers 21:29)  Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, to an Amorite king, Sihon.

 

(Numbers 21:30)  So we overthrew them; Heshbon, as far as Dibon, perished; and we laid waste as far as Nophah; fire spread as far as Medeba."

 

(Numbers 21:31)  Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

 

(Numbers 21:32)  And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

 

(Numbers 21:33)  Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

 

(Numbers 21:34)  But the LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him, for I have given him into your hand, and all his people, and his land. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon."

 

(Numbers 21:35)  So they defeated him and his sons and all his people, until he had no survivor left. And they possessed his land.

 

In Numbers chapter 22 is the start of the Balaam story where an angel resists his journey to Balak and also the donkey is made to speak out.

(Numbers 22:1)  Then the people of Israel set out and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.

 

(Numbers 22:2)  And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

 

(Numbers 22:3)  And Moab was in great dread of the people, because they were many. Moab was overcome with fear of the people of Israel.

 

(Numbers 22:4)  And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "This horde will now lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time,

 

(Numbers 22:5)  sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the people of Amaw, to call him, saying, "Behold, a people has come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are dwelling opposite me.

 

(Numbers 22:6)  Come now, curse this people for me, since they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them from the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed."

 

(Numbers 22:7)  So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fees for divination in their hand. And they came to Balaam and gave him Balak's message.

 

(Numbers 22:8)  And he said to them, "Lodge here tonight, and I will bring back word to you, as the LORD speaks to me." So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

 

(Numbers 22:9)  And God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"

 

(Numbers 22:10)  And Balaam said to God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, saying,

 

(Numbers 22:11)  'Behold, a people has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth. Now come, curse them for me. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them and drive them out.'"

 

(Numbers 22:12)  God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed."

 

(Numbers 22:13)  So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your own land, for the LORD has refused to let me go with you."

 

(Numbers 22:14)  So the princes of Moab rose and went to Balak and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."

 

(Numbers 22:15)  Once again Balak sent princes, more in number and more honorable than these.

 

(Numbers 22:16)  And they came to Balaam and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: 'Let nothing hinder you from coming to me,

 

(Numbers 22:17)  for I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Come, curse this people for me.'"

 

(Numbers 22:18)  But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the LORD my God to do less or more.

 

(Numbers 22:19)  So you, too, please stay here tonight, that I may know what more the LORD will say to me."

 

(Numbers 22:20)  And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; but only do what I tell you."

 

(Numbers 22:21)  So Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab.

 

(Numbers 22:22)  But God's anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the LORD took his stand in the way as his adversary. Now he was riding on the donkey, and his two servants were with him.

 

(Numbers 22:23)  And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road, with a drawn sword in his hand. And the donkey turned aside out of the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the road.

 

(Numbers 22:24)  Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side.

 

(Numbers 22:25)  And when the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pushed against the wall and pressed Balaam's foot against the wall. So he struck her again.

 

(Numbers 22:26)  Then the angel of the LORD went ahead and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.

 

(Numbers 22:27)  When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam. And Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.

 

(Numbers 22:28)  Then the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?"

 

(Numbers 22:29)  And Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have made a fool of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you."

 

(Numbers 22:30)  And the donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Is it my habit to treat you this way?" And he said, "No."

 

(Numbers 22:31)  Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his drawn sword in his hand. And he bowed down and fell on his face.

 

(Numbers 22:32)  And the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you because your way is perverse before me.

 

(Numbers 22:33)  The donkey saw me and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, surely just now I would have killed you and let her live."

 

(Numbers 22:34)  Then Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, "I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the road against me. Now therefore, if it is evil in your sight, I will turn back."

 

(Numbers 22:35)  And the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but speak only the word that I tell you." So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.

 

(Numbers 22:36)  When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, on the border formed by the Arnon, at the extremity of the border.

 

(Numbers 22:37)  And Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?"

 

(Numbers 22:38)  Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you! Have I now any power of my own to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak."

 

(Numbers 22:39)  Then Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.

 

(Numbers 22:40)  And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent for Balaam and for the princes who were with him.

 

(Numbers 22:41)  And in the morning Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal, and from there he saw a fraction of the people.

 

In Numbers chapter 23, Balaam blesses the people and does not curse them as Balak wanted him to do so

(Numbers 23:1)  And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams."

 

(Numbers 23:2)  Balak did as Balaam had said. And Balak and Balaam offered on each altar a bull and a ram.

 

(Numbers 23:3)  And Balaam said to Balak, "Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell you." And he went to a bare height,

 

(Numbers 23:4)  and God met Balaam. And Balaam said to him, "I have arranged the seven altars and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram."

 

(Numbers 23:5)  And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."

 

(Numbers 23:6)  And he returned to him, and behold, he and all the princes of Moab were standing beside his burnt offering.

 

(Numbers 23:7)  And Balaam took up his discourse and said, "From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: 'Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!'

 

(Numbers 23:8)  How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?

 

(Numbers 23:9)  For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him; behold, a people dwelling alone, and not counting itself among the nations!

 

(Numbers 23:10)  Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!"

 

(Numbers 23:11)  And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have done nothing but bless them."

 

(Numbers 23:12)  And he answered and said, "Must I not take care to speak what the LORD puts in my mouth?"

 

(Numbers 23:13)  And Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place, from which you may see them. You shall see only a fraction of them and shall not see them all. Then curse them for me from there."

 

(Numbers 23:14)  And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

 

(Numbers 23:15)  Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD over there."

 

(Numbers 23:16)  And the LORD met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak."

 

(Numbers 23:17)  And he came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has the LORD spoken?"

 

(Numbers 23:18)  And Balaam took up his discourse and said, "Rise, Balak, and hear; give ear to me, O son of Zippor:

 

(Numbers 23:19)  God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

 

(Numbers 23:20)  Behold, I received a command to bless: he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.

 

(Numbers 23:21)  He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them.

 

(Numbers 23:22)  God brings them out of Egypt and is for them like the horns of the wild ox.

 

(Numbers 23:23)  For there is no enchantment against Jacob, no divination against Israel; now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel, 'What has God wrought!'

 

(Numbers 23:24)  Behold, a people! As a lioness it rises up and as a lion it lifts itself; it does not lie down until it has devoured the prey and drunk the blood of the slain."

 

(Numbers 23:25)  And Balak said to Balaam, "Do not curse them at all, and do not bless them at all."

 

(Numbers 23:26)  But Balaam answered Balak, "Did I not tell you, 'All that the LORD says, that I must do'?"

 

(Numbers 23:27)  And Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there."

 

(Numbers 23:28)  So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert.

 

(Numbers 23:29)  And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams."

 

(Numbers 23:30)  And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

 

In Numbers chapter 24 this continues with Balaam blessing Israel three times, then speaks prophetically against other nations in that area

(Numbers 24:1)  When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face toward the wilderness.

 

(Numbers 24:2)  And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe. And the Spirit of God came upon him,

 

(Numbers 24:3)  and he took up his discourse and said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,

 

(Numbers 24:4)  the oracle of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered:

 

(Numbers 24:5)  How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your encampments, O Israel!

 

(Numbers 24:6)  Like palm groves that stretch afar, like gardens beside a river, like aloes that the LORD has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters.

 

(Numbers 24:7)  Water shall flow from his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters; his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

 

(Numbers 24:8)  God brings him out of Egypt and is for him like the horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows.

 

(Numbers 24:9)  He crouched, he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you."

 

(Numbers 24:10)  And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. And Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them these three times.

 

(Numbers 24:11)  Therefore now flee to your own place. I said, 'I will certainly honor you,' but the LORD has held you back from honor."

 

(Numbers 24:12)  And Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not tell your messengers whom you sent to me,

 

(Numbers 24:13)  'If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own will. What the LORD speaks, that will I speak'?

 

(Numbers 24:14)  And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come, I will let you know what this people will do to your people in the latter days."

 

(Numbers 24:15)  And he took up his discourse and said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,

 

(Numbers 24:16)  the oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered:

 

(Numbers 24:17)  I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth.

 

(Numbers 24:18)  Edom shall be dispossessed; Seir also, his enemies, shall be dispossessed. Israel is doing valiantly.

 

(Numbers 24:19)  And one from Jacob shall exercise dominion and destroy the survivors of cities!"

 

(Numbers 24:20)  Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, "Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction."

 

(Numbers 24:21)  And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said, "Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock.

 

(Numbers 24:22)  Nevertheless, Kain shall be burned when Asshur takes you away captive."

 

(Numbers 24:23)  And he took up his discourse and said, "Alas, who shall live when God does this?

 

(Numbers 24:24)  But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he too shall come to utter destruction."

 

(Numbers 24:25)  Then Balaam rose and went back to his place. And Balak also went his way.

 

In Numbers chapter 25, women seduce Israel into whoredom and idolatry and then are judged, but Phinehas intervenes and stops the plague and gains an everlasting priesthood for his actions

(Numbers 25:1)  While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab.

 

(Numbers 25:2)  These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

 

(Numbers 25:3)  So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

 

(Numbers 25:4)  And the LORD said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the LORD, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel."

 

(Numbers 25:5)  And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor."

 

(Numbers 25:6)  And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting.

 

(Numbers 25:7)  When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand

 

(Numbers 25:8)  and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped.

 

(Numbers 25:9)  Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

 

(Numbers 25:10)  And the LORD said to Moses,

 

(Numbers 25:11)  "Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.

 

(Numbers 25:12)  Therefore say, 'Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace,

 

(Numbers 25:13)  and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.'"

 

(Numbers 25:14)  The name of the slain man of Israel, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, chief of a father's house belonging to the Simeonites.

 

(Numbers 25:15)  And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the tribal head of a father's house in Midian.

 

(Numbers 25:16)  And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

 

(Numbers 25:17)  "Harass the Midianites and strike them down,

 

(Numbers 25:18)  for they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the chief of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague on account of Peor."

 

In Numbers chapter 31 then the people are told to avenge themselves on Midian for the above transgressions, and that they do, taking a lot of spoil

(Numbers 31:1)  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

 

(Numbers 31:2)  "Avenge the people of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."

 

(Numbers 31:3)  So Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD's vengeance on Midian.

 

(Numbers 31:4)  You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war."

 

(Numbers 31:5)  So there were provided, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

 

(Numbers 31:6)  And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, together with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

 

(Numbers 31:7)  They warred against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and killed every male.

 

(Numbers 31:8)  They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. And they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

 

(Numbers 31:9)  And the people of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and they took as plunder all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods.

 

(Numbers 31:10)  All their cities in the places where they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire,

 

(Numbers 31:11)  and took all the spoil and all the plunder, both of man and of beast.

 

(Numbers 31:12)  Then they brought the captives and the plunder and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the people of Israel, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

 

(Numbers 31:13)  Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.

 

(Numbers 31:14)  And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.

 

(Numbers 31:15)  Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live?

 

(Numbers 31:16)  Behold, these, on Balaam's advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the LORD.

 

(Numbers 31:17)  Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

 

(Numbers 31:18)  But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.

 

(Numbers 31:19)  Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

 

(Numbers 31:20)  You shall purify every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats' hair, and every article of wood."

 

(Numbers 31:21)  Then Eleazar the priest said to the men in the army who had gone to battle: "This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded Moses:

 

(Numbers 31:22)  only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

 

(Numbers 31:23)  everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless, it shall also be purified with the water for impurity. And whatever cannot stand the fire, you shall pass through the water.

 

(Numbers 31:24)  You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. And afterward you may come into the camp."

 

(Numbers 31:25)  The LORD said to Moses,

 

(Numbers 31:26)  "Take the count of the plunder that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers' houses of the congregation,

 

(Numbers 31:27)  and divide the plunder into two parts between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.

 

(Numbers 31:28)  And levy for the LORD a tribute from the men of war who went out to battle, one out of five hundred, of the people and of the oxen and of the donkeys and of the flocks.

 

(Numbers 31:29)  Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to the LORD.

 

(Numbers 31:30)  And from the people of Israel's half you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the people, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who keep guard over the tabernacle of the LORD."

 

(Numbers 31:31)  And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

 

(Numbers 31:32)  Now the plunder remaining of the spoil that the army took was 675,000 sheep,

 

(Numbers 31:33)  72,000 cattle,

 

(Numbers 31:34)  61,000 donkeys,

 

(Numbers 31:35)  and 32,000 persons in all, women who had not known man by lying with him.

 

(Numbers 31:36)  And the half, the portion of those who had gone out in the army, numbered 337,500 sheep,

 

(Numbers 31:37)  and the LORD's tribute of sheep was 675.

 

(Numbers 31:38)  The cattle were 36,000, of which the LORD's tribute was 72.

 

(Numbers 31:39)  The donkeys were 30,500, of which the LORD's tribute was 61.

 

(Numbers 31:40)  The persons were 16,000, of which the LORD's tribute was 32 persons.

 

(Numbers 31:41)  And Moses gave the tribute, which was the contribution for the LORD, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.

 

(Numbers 31:42)  From the people of Israel's half, which Moses separated from that of the men who had served in the army--

 

(Numbers 31:43)  now the congregation's half was 337,500 sheep,

 

(Numbers 31:44)  36,000 cattle,

 

(Numbers 31:45)  and 30,500 donkeys,

 

(Numbers 31:46)  and 16,000 persons--

 

(Numbers 31:47)  from the people of Israel's half Moses took one of every 50, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who kept guard over the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

 

(Numbers 31:48)  Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, came near to Moses

 

(Numbers 31:49)  and said to Moses, "Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us.

 

(Numbers 31:50)  And we have brought the LORD's offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD."

 

(Numbers 31:51)  And Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them the gold, all crafted articles.

 

(Numbers 31:52)  And all the gold of the contribution that they presented to the LORD, from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels.

 

(Numbers 31:53)  (The men in the army had each taken plunder for himself.)

 

(Numbers 31:54)  And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, as a memorial for the people of Israel before the LORD.

 

In chapter 32 of Numbers again some rebel and refuse to go over the river, enraging the Lord and causing Him to reinforce the promise of the same thing as in chapter 14 (other study)

(Numbers 32:1)  Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock.

 

(Numbers 32:2)  So the people of Gad and the people of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the congregation,

 

(Numbers 32:3)  "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

 

(Numbers 32:4)  the land that the LORD struck down before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock."

 

(Numbers 32:5)  And they said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us across the Jordan."

 

(Numbers 32:6)  But Moses said to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben, "Shall your brothers go to the war while you sit here?

 

(Numbers 32:7)  Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that the LORD has given them?

 

(Numbers 32:8)  Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

 

(Numbers 32:9)  For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the LORD had given them.

 

(Numbers 32:10)  And the LORD's anger was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying,

 

(Numbers 32:11)  'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me,

 

(Numbers 32:12)  none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.'

 

(Numbers 32:13)  And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone.

 

(Numbers 32:14)  And behold, you have risen in your fathers' place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel!

 

(Numbers 32:15)  For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people."

 

(Numbers 32:16)  Then they came near to him and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,

 

(Numbers 32:17)  but we will take up arms, ready to go before the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

 

(Numbers 32:18)  We will not return to our homes until each of the people of Israel has gained his inheritance.

 

(Numbers 32:19)  For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east."

 

(Numbers 32:20)  So Moses said to them, "If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the LORD for the war,

 

(Numbers 32:21)  and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him

 

(Numbers 32:22)  and the land is subdued before the LORD; then after that you shall return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.

 

(Numbers 32:23)  But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out.

 

(Numbers 32:24)  Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised."

 

(Numbers 32:25)  And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben said to Moses, "Your servants will do as my lord commands.

 

(Numbers 32:26)  Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead,

 

(Numbers 32:27)  but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord orders."

 

(Numbers 32:28)  So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel.

 

(Numbers 32:29)  And Moses said to them, "If the people of Gad and the people of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the LORD, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession.

 

(Numbers 32:30)  However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan."

 

(Numbers 32:31)  And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben answered, "What the LORD has said to your servants, we will do.

 

(Numbers 32:32)  We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan."

 

(Numbers 32:33)  And Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.

 

(Numbers 32:34)  And the people of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

 

(Numbers 32:35)  Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

 

(Numbers 32:36)  Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

 

(Numbers 32:37)  And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

 

(Numbers 32:38)  Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names were changed), and Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built.

 

(Numbers 32:39)  And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

 

(Numbers 32:40)  And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he settled in it.

 

(Numbers 32:41)  And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.

 

(Numbers 32:42)  And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

This  link leads story continues in the first 8 chapters of Deuteronomy relating more of the story of Israel

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/deuteronomy-bible-study-chapters-1-through-8/10200703642007014

 

God is merciful He would indeed give over the promised land to Israel even though they give Him many good reasons to wipe them out by their continued complaining, rebellion, disobedience. God doesn’t change so He then sent Jesus to make atonement for our own disobedience. Jesus paid the price for all of our sins so we could have eternal life, and more importantly a love relationship with Him. I am now including a prayer which you can use to repent and establish this relationship with Him or even to come back if you have slid away. Please pray this prayer with me:

Please do pray this prayer with me

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours