Monday, December 14, 2015

Numbers chapter 33

After reading chapter 33:

*The first part of the chapter is a record of all the travels and stops the Israelites made over the forty years of wandering. There were supposedly 42 separate camp sites, none of which left any evidence of well over a million people for modern archaeologists to find.

*In the second part, Yahweh tells Moses to tell the Israelites that when they cross the Jordan into canaan they are to destroy all the Canaanite idols, of stone and metal. They are to also destroy any "high places" which were usually hilltop temples or places of sacrifice. They were to take over the land after it was divvied up by tribe and doled out to individual families  by the casting of lots.
Then God says that if the Israelites do not drive  the current inhabitants out of the land, they will end up regretting it. Not only will the people be an irritant, but God will do to the Israelites what he's been thinking of doing to the Canaanites, whatever that is.

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