No compromise with idolatry. Num 33:38-56
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT13
The Experiences in the Wilderness
II. FROM SINAI TO THE JORDAN, Numbers 10:11-22:1
6. Division of the Land; Aaron’s Death; Levitical Cities; Cities of Refuge, Num_32:1-42; Num_33:1-56; Num_34:1-29; Num_35:1-34
46. Why were the Canaanites to be completely driven out of the Promised Land?
RECOUNTING ISRAEL’S JOURNEY
Aaron the priest went up on Mount Hor at the command of the LORD, and died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month. [Num_20:23-29]
Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev (the South country) in the land of Canaan, heard that the sons of Israel were coming.
They moved out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
Then they moved out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
They moved out from Punon and camped at Oboth.
They moved out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, on the border of Moab.
They moved out from Iyim (Iye-abarim) and camped at Dibon-gad.
They moved out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.
They moved out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before [Mount] Nebo.
They moved out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho [their last stop on the journey to Canaan].
They camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
DRIVE OUT THE INHABITANTS
Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, saying,
“Say to the children of Israel, ‘When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you and destroy all their sculpted images, and destroy all their cast idols and completely eliminate all their [idolatrous] high places,
and you shall take possession of the land and live in it, for I have given the land to you to possess.
You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the large tribe you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the small tribe you shall give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be [the location of] his [inheritance]. According to the tribes of your fathers (ancestors) you shall inherit.
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be like pricks in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, and they will attack you in the land in which you live.
And as I [the LORD] planned to do to them, so I will do to you.'”
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Numbers 33:38-56
NO COMPROMISE WITH IDOLATRY
Aaron’s death must have been deeply felt by his brother Moses. During the great crisis of Hebrew history they had been so closely associated that the wrench must have been very considerable. In addition, there was the recollection of the sin which had excluded the two brothers from Canaan. In the Epistle to the Hebrews the death of Aaron is recorded to set forth the eternal priesthood of Christ, Heb_7:17. Our High Priest has no successor; His office cannot be passed to another. It is not after Aaron, but Melchizedek.
The last paragraph, Num_33:50-56, is especially impressive. There must be no complicity with evil; for if there be, it will eat out the very heart of our character and happiness. It is much better to root out evil with a strong hand than to suffer it in any form, for, like the boomerang of the savage, our sinful permissions will come back on ourselves.
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