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Chapter 31 of Numbers begins with Moses being commanded by God to perform his final act as leader of the children of Israel. The act is to avenge the Israelites of the Midianites; after this Moses will be gathered. Israel went to war as Moses commanded, a thousand of every tribe and the priests (Levites) with their trumpets and holy instruments.
Feb 27, 2024 · Date of Writing: The Book of Numbers was written between 1440 and 1400 B.C. Purpose of Writing: The message of the Book of Numbers is universal and timeless. It reminds believers of the spiritual warfare in which they are engaged, for Numbers is the book of the service and walk of God’s people. The Book of Numbers essentially bridges the gap ...
- A. The Book of Numbers: in The Wilderness.
- B. Israel Takes Inventory: The Census of Numbers 1
- C. The Count of The Tribes.
1. (Numbers 1:1) God spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai. Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of meeting, on the first dayof the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying: a. In the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt: As recorded in the boo...
1. (Numbers 1:4-16) The heads of the tribes. “And with you there shall be a man from every tribe, each one the head of his father’s house. “These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: from Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; from Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai; from Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab; from Issachar, Nethanel ...
1. (Numbers 1:20-21) The Tribe of Reuben: 46,500 potential soldiers. Now the children of Reuben, Israel’s oldest son, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war: those who were numbered of the tribe of Reuben...
Nov 11, 2021 · Numbers 31:47 and from the sons of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. the Levites: Nu 18:21-24 De 12:17-19 Lu 10:1-8 1Th 5:12, 13.
2. The rebuke he gave them for sparing the women, ver 14-18. 3. The directions he gave them for the purifying of themselves and their effects, ver 19-24. 4. The distribution of the spoil they had taken, one half to the soldiers, the other to the congregation, and a tribute to the Lord out of each, ver 25-47. 5.
Also, the fact that the soldiers actually participating in the struggle received exactly half of all the booty seems much more consistent with this understanding of the word. Another “alleged difficulty” occurs in the fact that God spoke of “avenging Israel” ( Numbers 31:2) and of “the vengeance of Jehovah” ( Numbers 31:3 ).
Numbers. 1 – The Census of Israel. “The Book of Numbers might be called, without any impropriety, ‘Moses’s Pilgrim’s Progress.’. It contains a full account of the progress of the pilgrims through the wilderness until they came to the promised land. And, like Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress,’ it is not alone a history of any one ...
