Numbers 2:9 “All who were numbered according to their armies of the forces with Judah, one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred–these shall break camp first. Once again I am reminded of how detailed God’s love for us and knowledge of us is. Here He gives instructions for how the people of Israel were to…
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12 By Name
Numbers 1: The Census I started reading Numbers with the vague notion that it would be SO much fun to read all the genealogies. But within minutes I noticed something interesting. God instructs Moses to take a census and to take with him the head/leader of each tribal family. And then He does something interesting… …
Kindred
Leviticus 26:12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. I was curious to know what word was used for walk, so I went into the Hebrew translation to find out (Blue Letter Bible – it’s awesome!). What I found was kind of cool, but it didn’t have…
A Testing of Character
Psalm 105:19 Until the time came to fulfill his word, the LORD tested Joseph’s character. This entire Psalm is a historical account of how God kept His promise to Abraham and Jacob to give them the Promised Land. It all started when there were just one or two men who wandered around the countryside. And…
Impossibilities
Zechariah 8:6 This is what the LORD Almighty says: All this may seem impossible to you now, a small and discouraged remnant of God’s people. But do you think this is impossible for me, the LORD Almighty? I feel a little bit like the remnant sometimes. I feel small and discouraged by the circumstances of…
Pride & Self-Sufficiency
Obediah 1 As I’m reading through all the prophets and their messages of doom (and the occasional glimmer of hope) it’s easy for me to wonder what on earth I can learn from it. And then today, as I read a commentary on Obediah, it smacked me in the face! OUCH! The man who wrote…
The Pride of Jacob
Amos 8:7 Now the Lord has sworn this oath by his own name, the Pride of Israel:… In Hebrew the name is “The Pride of Jacob.” Remember, Jacob’s name was changed to Israel after wrestling with God. I read a post recently that said, “So much of Genesis is about Jacob’s struggle to make God…
Witness
Joshua 22:34 The people of Reuben and Gad named the altar “Witness” for they said, “It is a witness between us and them that the Lord is our God, too.” The tribes of Reuben and Gad were separated from the rest of Israel by the Jordan River and they built an altar on their side…
Discarded
Jeremiah 6:16So now the Lord says, “Stop right where you are! Look for the old, godly way, and walk in it. Travel its path, and you will find rest for your souls. But you reply, ‘ No that’s not the road we want!’” Israel is determined to do things her own way, falling in with…
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Joshua 17:16They said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and the Canaanites in the lowlands around Beth-shan and the valley of Jezreel have iron chariots – they are too strong for us.” Then Joshua said tot he tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, the decendants of Joseph, “Since you are so large and strong,…
