Numbers 20-21:9
Skip Heitzig
| Numbers 20 (NKJV™) | |
| 1 | Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there and was buried there. |
| 2 | Now there was no water for the congregation; so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron. |
| 3 | And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying: "If only we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! |
| 4 | "Why have you brought up the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our animals should die here? |
| 5 | "And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink." |
| 6 | So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and they fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them. |
| 7 | Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
| 8 | "Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals." |
| 9 | So Moses took the rod from before the LORD as He commanded him. |
| 10 | And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?" |
| 11 | Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank. |
| 12 | Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them." |
| 13 | This was the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the LORD, and He was hallowed among them. |
| 14 | Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. "Thus says your brother Israel: 'You know all the hardship that has befallen us, |
| 15 | 'how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers. |
| 16 | 'When we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice and sent the Angel and brought us up out of Egypt; now here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border. |
| 17 | 'Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink water from wells; we will go along the King's Highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.'" |
| 18 | Then Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword." |
| 19 | So the children of Israel said to him, "We will go by the Highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more." |
| 20 | Then he said, "You shall not pass through." So Edom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand. |
| 21 | Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him. |
| 22 | Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor. |
| 23 | And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor by the border of the land of Edom, saying: |
| 24 | "Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the water of Meribah. |
| 25 | "Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor; |
| 26 | "and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; for Aaron shall be gathered to his people and die there." |
| 27 | So Moses did just as the LORD commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. |
| 28 | Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. |
| 29 | Now when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days. |
| Numbers 21 (NKJV™) | |
| 1 | The king of Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the South, heard that Israel was coming on the road to Atharim, then he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoners. |
| 2 | So Israel made a vow to the LORD, and said, "If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities." |
| 3 | And the LORD listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. So the name of that place was called Hormah. |
| 4 | Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became very discouraged on the way. |
| 5 | And the people spoke against God and against Moses: "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread." |
| 6 | So the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died. |
| 7 | Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD that He take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. |
| 8 | Then the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live." |
| 9 | So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived. |
| 10 | Now the children of Israel moved on and camped in Oboth. |
| 11 | And they journeyed from Oboth and camped at Ije Abarim, in the wilderness which is east of Moab, toward the sunrise. |
| 12 | From there they moved and camped in the Valley of Zered. |
| 13 | From there they moved and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. |
| 14 | Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD: "Waheb in Suphah, The brooks of the Arnon, |
| 15 | And the slope of the brooks That reaches to the dwelling of Ar, And lies on the border of Moab." |
| 16 | From there they went to Beer, which is the well where the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water." |
| 17 | Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well! All of you sing to it-- |
| 18 | The well the leaders sank, Dug by the nation's nobles, By the lawgiver, with their staves." And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah, |
| 19 | from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth, |
| 20 | and from Bamoth, in the valley that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah which looks down on the wasteland. |
| 21 | Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, |
| 22 | "Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into fields or vineyards; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the King's Highway until we have passed through your territory." |
| 23 | But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. So Sihon gathered all his people together and went out against Israel in the wilderness, and he came to Jahaz and fought against Israel. |
| 24 | Then Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the people of Ammon; for the border of the people of Ammon was fortified. |
| 25 | So Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its villages. |
| 26 | For Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon. |
| 27 | Therefore those who speak in proverbs say: "Come to Heshbon, let it be built; Let the city of Sihon be repaired. |
| 28 | "For fire went out from Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon; It consumed Ar of Moab, The lords of the heights of the Arnon. |
| 29 | Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, And his daughters into captivity, To Sihon king of the Amorites. |
| 30 | "But we have shot at them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. Then we laid waste as far as Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba." |
| 31 | Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. |
| 32 | Then Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there. |
| 33 | And they turned and went up by the way to Bashan. So Og king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. |
| 34 | Then the LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon." |
| 35 | So they defeated him, his sons, and all his people, until there was no survivor left him; and they took possession of his land. |
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Numbers is a book of wanderings, as the Jewish people travel through the wilderness in unbelief. Skip Heitzig shows us how we can learn from the mistakes of the children of Israel.
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