March 14 Numbers 33-36 (ESV) Recounting Israel’s Journey 33:1 These are the stages of the people of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. 2 Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the Lord, and these are their stages according to [...]
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March 14 Numbers 33-36
Posted: March 14, 2011 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, March Bible Readings, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, March Bible Readings, Numbers, Scripture
Why will you discourage the heart of the people?
Posted: March 13, 2011 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, March, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Israel, Moses, Numbers, Promised Land, Scripture, Why will you discourage the heart of the people?
In Numbers 32, we read of the tribes of Reuben and Gad making a request of Moses to be allowed to stay with all their livestock and not go across the Jordan with the rest of the people. But Moses says to them: “Shall your brothers go to the war while you sit here? 7 Why will [...]
March 13 Numbers 31-32
Posted: March 13, 2011 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, March Bible Readings, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, March Bible Readings, Numbers, Scripture
March 13 Numbers 31-32 (ESV) Vengeance on Midian 31:1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Avenge the people of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”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. 4 You shall send [...]
Sacrificial Calendar
Posted: March 12, 2011 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, March, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Numbers, OT sacrifices, sacrifice, Sacrificial Calendar, Scripture
If Moses had an iPhone calendar app, the alarm would sound often. Today’s reading of Numbers 28-30 caused my head to spin a bit. I can hardly imagine keeping track of all the offerings required: daily, Sabbath, monthly and special holidays. Here’s some help from the notes section (Numbers 28-29) of the ESV Study Bible [...]
March 12 Numbers 28-30
Posted: March 12, 2011 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, March Bible Readings, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, March Bible Readings, Numbers, Scripture
March 12 Numbers 28-30 (ESV) Daily Offerings 28:1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Command the people of Israel and say to them, ‘My offering, my food for my food offerings, my pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.’ 3 And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall [...]
Moses Hands-off to Joshua
Posted: March 11, 2011 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, March, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, J Vernon McGee, Joshua, Joshua Takes the Handoff from Moses, Moses, Moses Hands-off to Joshua, Numbers, Scripture
So the Lord said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.19 Make him stand before Eleazar the priest and all the congregation, and you shall commission him in their sight. 20 You shall invest him with some of your authority, that all the congregation of the [...]
March 11 Numbers 26-27
Posted: March 11, 2011 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, March Bible Readings, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, March Bible Readings, Numbers, Scripture
March 11 Numbers 26-27 (ESV) Census of the New Generation 26:1 After the plague, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest, 2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all in Israel who are able to go to [...]
J. Ligon Duncan III: Lessons from an ass
Posted: March 10, 2011 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, March, NumbersTags: Balaam's ass, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, God's sovereignty, J. Ligon Duncan III: Lessons from an ass, J.Ligon Duncan, Numbers, Scripture, Trusting God
Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III, of First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, Mississippi: 1. There are some things that you don’t have to pray about. In answer to Balaam’s question, ‘Can I go and earn some big bucks from Balak by cursing Your people?’ God has said ‘No, you may not go with them, and no, you may [...]
March 10 Numbers 23-25
Posted: March 10, 2011 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, March Bible Readings, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, March Bible Readings, Numbers, Scripture
March 10 Numbers 23-25 (ESV) Balaam’s First Oracle 23:1 And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”2 Balak did as Balaam had said. And Balak and Balaam offered on each altar a bull and a ram. 3 And Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt [...]
Christ Our Refuge-high as the heavens, wide as infinity, lasting as the endless day
Posted: March 14, 2011 by 4theloveofgod in Devotionals/Commentaries, March, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, Christ Our Refuge-high as the heavens wide as infinity lasting as the endless day, Cities of Refuge, daily Bible, Henry Law, March Bible Readings, Numbers, Our Refuge is Christ, Refuge, Scripture
“Among the cities which you shall give unto the Levites, there shall be six cities for Refuge.” Numb. 35:6. Henry Law comments at Grace Gems.com: REFUGE is a thought dear to every Christian heart. It is, as haven to the ship, when clouds blacken–as dove-cote to the bird, when hawks pursue. When once the wrath [...]