Chapter thirty-five addresses the Levites, who did not receive any of the land of Canaan as an inheritance for their tribe. Instead, God allotted the Levites forty-eight towns spread throughout the other tribes that they could live in (Numbers 35:1-8). The tribes with more land could afford to give more cities than those with less […]
Chapters twenty-two through twenty-four contain another well-known story from Numbers: the account of Balak and Balaam. 1 In Numbers 21:26 we read that Sihon had defeated Moab. Now that Israel had defeated Sihon, the Moabites were naturally afraid that they could be next, so when Israel journeyed up the eastern border of Moab, Balak, their
Chapters thirteen and fourteen contain one of the most famous stories in Numbers – the spies enter Canaan. Unfortunately, it is also the most disastrous, the event that caused the second half of Numbers and all of Deuteronomy to even take place. Had the spies and the nation handled this one event differently, they could
