A Bible Study For You ... Us

A Bible Study For You ... Us
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Numbers 21

Again with the complaining.

Why did you bring us out of Egypt?

"We detest this miserable food."

I'm sorry, are they referring to manna? Heavenly food provided by God himself is miserable to eat. Interesting.

The price for complaining to God? Snakes ... that bite and kill. The people came to Moses and said, "We're sorry. We were wrong. Please ask God to take the snakes away." In response to Moses prayers the Lord had Moses make a bronze snake and put it atop a tall pole. Whenever people looked at it, after having been bitten, they would be saved.

This seems like a graven image. I thought we weren't supposed to have things like that.

Where could I find a copy of the "Book of the Wars of the Lord"?

Why did these kings not want the Israelites to pass through their land?  Is it because there were so many Israelites that the kings thought their lands would be overrun?

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