The book of Numbers was known to be written by Moses around the time of 1450-1410 B.C. During this time some of the key personalities were known as Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Miriam, Elazar, Korah, Caleb, and Balaam. Also, in this book, we are going to see how Israel traveled on their journey to enter the promise land. In this book also shows us how Israel prepared the entry of the promise land. It wasn’t long and they had sinned and were punished for their sin. Moses was going to do what it takes to prepare Israel for the promise land. We read in Chapters 1-9 that Moses began taking a count of all the tribes that was primarily to know how many men were available and in shape to be considered for military service. According to “Jay Smith, Moses
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Numbers Summary. Accessed February 17, 2018, http://biblehub.com/summary/numbers/1.htm
In chapters 13-19 we learn about the severity of punishment for being disobedient and unfaithful towards God. Soon after this teaching Moses sent out 12 spies to investigate the promise land. After some time, the 12 came back to Moses and tell of what they had found out. The people feared them and rebelled because they were taking their land. Now God had punished them for being rebellious and sent them into the wilderness for a total of 40 years.
In chapters 20-36 Jay Smith said that “there was a new generation of Israelites again attempt to enter the land to take it as God promised.”2 Because this is Gods promise they had destroyed two nations as they had entered the land because they confronted them. Balak had used prophet Balaam and taught him to seduced Israelites to worship Baal. He did this because he was disobedient and because of his disobedience there were 24,000 people killed and that even includes Balaam. By the end of the Book of Numbers Jay Smith summed it up “as Moses again conducts the census, Joshua assumes the leadership of Israel in place of Moses because he was banned from the promise land and that was because of his disobedience.”
Numbers Summary. Accessed February 17, 2018, http://biblehub.com/summary/numbers/1.htm
In chapters 13-19 we learn about the severity of punishment for being disobedient and unfaithful towards God. Soon after this teaching Moses sent out 12 spies to investigate the promise land. After some time, the 12 came back to Moses and tell of what they had found out. The people feared them and rebelled because they were taking their land. Now God had punished them for being rebellious and sent them into the wilderness for a total of 40 years.
In chapters 20-36 Jay Smith said that “there was a new generation of Israelites again attempt to enter the land to take it as God promised.”2 Because this is Gods promise they had destroyed two nations as they had entered the land because they confronted them. Balak had used prophet Balaam and taught him to seduced Israelites to worship Baal. He did this because he was disobedient and because of his disobedience there were 24,000 people killed and that even includes Balaam. By the end of the Book of Numbers Jay Smith summed it up “as Moses again conducts the census, Joshua assumes the leadership of Israel in place of Moses because he was banned from the promise land and that was because of his disobedience.”