Boundaries are serious business
Setting boundaries and cities for the Israelites: Numbers 34–36 God was strict in His instructions about what land would belong …
Category Archives: Numbers
Gilead or Canaan?
Gad, Reuben and Manassah stay, recounting the Israelite’s travels: Numbers 32–33 After 40 years of wandering in the desert, the …
Balak’s strategy rebounds
Making vows and revenge on the Midianites: Numbers 25–26 Balak’s attempts to curse Israel into oblivion had failed, and now …
Moses lets go
Inheritance, Joshua and Sabbaths: Numbers 27–29 Numbers 27:15-17 Moses said to the Lord, ‘May the Lord, the God who gives breath to …
Idolatory with Moabite women
Mixing with Moab and the final census: Numbers 25–26 No battle, no cursing. All the Moabites had left was to …
Balak and Balaam
There’s a lot to say about Balak and Balaam. Derek Prince has a good commentary (downloads as a pdf). This discussion …
Balaam: the ‘seer’ who couldn’t curse Israel
Balak asks Balaam to curse Israel, blesses instead: Numbers 22–24 Balaam tried everything to earn his fee from Balak: pestering …
Unexpected battles
Wandering in the wilderness, water, snakes, unexpected battles: Numbers 19–21 The Israelites’s wanderings ended about 40 years after they left …
You Levites have gone too far!
The Levites complain: Numbers 16–18 The Kohathites had an important role: to carry many of the holy things from the …
Be careful what you ask for
Exploring Canaan: Numbers 13–15 Stirred up by the scouts’ reports of Cannan, the Israelites response was to cry all night: …
Best not complain
Complaints: Numbers 11–12 Poor Moses. First the people complain about the hardship of the desert life, then the foreigners amongst …
Moses’ father-in-law
Before leaving Sinai, Moses invited his father-in-law to stay with the Israelites and accompany them to the promised land. He …
A call to action: the silver trumpets
The silver trumpets and leaving Sinai: Numbers 10 Silver trumpets were used to call the people to gather at the …
A priestly blessing
Purity in marriage and vows: Numbers 5–6 After some instructions for managing the behaviour of insanely jealous husbands (of the …
Importance of the firstborn
A count of Israelite fighting men and Levites: Numbers 1–4 The firstborn were important to God: they had a special …
All those numbers
The book of Numbers starts with an order to count all the men of fighting age in preparation for war. …
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