NOVEMBER 28, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:6-7 The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: “You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the […]
NOVEMBER 27, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:5 On this side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law. It has always intrigued me that, as a nation, Israel didn’t grow and multiply while in the land of Canaan but always outside of the land, in fact, in the land of their […]
NOVEMBER 26, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:2 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. Two hundred years ago, before the invention of automobiles and other modern modes of transportation, a pilgrim to the Holy Land decided to make the journey from Horeb to the south of Israel riding a camel; it took him […]
NOVEMBER 25, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:3 Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him as commandments to them. In addition to the points we have made thus far about the purpose of Deuteronomy — […]
NOVEMBER 24, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:3 Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him as commandments to them. Building on the issue we discussed in the previous devotion — the idea that Israel would […]
NOVEMBER 23, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. In the Jewish world, the book we call Deuteronomy is known, officially, as Devarim – “words.” In ancient times this book was also known […]
NOVEMBER 22, 2022 Numbers 35:12 They shall be cities of refuge for you from the avenger, that the man slayer may not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment. There is something very interesting about the “avenger” or “avenger of blood” mentioned here. We can understand that if someone related to or very […]
NOVEMBER 21, 2022 Numbers 35:6 Now among the cities which you will give to the Levites you shall appoint six cities of refuge, to which a man slayer may flee. Six cities were appointed to serve as “cities of refuge” — a temporary asylum for those who committed involuntary homicide. To be clear, these were not for […]
NOVEMBER 20, 2022 Numbers 35:1-2 And the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, saying: “Command the children of Israel that they give the Levites cities to dwell in from the inheritance of their possession, and you shall also give the Levites common-land around the cities.” In this chapter we see the directive given for the […]
NOVEMBER 19, 2022 Numbers 34:1-2 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance—the land of Canaan to its boundaries.” This chapter is devoted to establishing tribal boundaries within the land of Canaan […]
NOVEMBER 18, 2022 Numbers 33:55-56 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell. Moreover, it shall be that I will […]
NOVEMBER 17, 2022 Numbers 33:51-53 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: “When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their high places; you shall dispossess the […]
