Chapter twenty seems to skip most of Israel’s wandering years. Although some commentators believe that Israel came to Kadesh only once and stayed near there (based on Deuteronomy 1:46), it seems clear that this “first month” is a return to Kadesh in “the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of […]
Chapters sixteen through eighteen record a series of events that God used to confirm his selection of the Levites to minister in the tabernacle and the family of Aaron, specifically, to serve as his priests. In the Hebrew text, chapter sixteen ends with verse thirty-five, adding the final fifteen verses to chapter seventeen. Since they
Chapter fifteen is a chapter of grace. During the years of wandering God continued to give his laws to the nation. The fact that the first of these begin with “When you enter the land where you are to live, which I am giving you” (Numbers 15:2) shows that God had not and would not
