These type chapters are difficult. But, I did see something.
52 The Lord said to Moses, 53 “The land is to be allotted to them as an inheritance based on the number of names. 54 To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one; each is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those listed.
Between the plague and the earth "swallowing" others......the census was to see who was left. In other words, which clans had been the most faithful to God. They would recieve the largest inheritance. Those clans who strayed farthest were punished with more deaths, and therefore got a smaller inheritance.
Something to think about as I struggle with "my plan vs God's plan" in my daily life. If I am faithful to him, he will ALWAYS be faithful to me.
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yeah--what part don't we get, He is ALWAYS faithful.
ReplyDelete64 Not one of them was among those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Desert of Sinai. 65 For the Lord had told those Israelites they would surely die in the wilderness, and not one of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
I just found this part interesting that with the exceptions noted none of the Israelites who went into the wilderness would die. So I did a little digging and realized I forgot Ch 1:46-45.
45 All the Israelites twenty years old or more who were able to serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families. 46 The total number was 603,550.
Now here we are and all those 603,550 are gone but in v51 then census shows 51 The total number of the men of Israel was 601,730.
So in less than 40years all the men over 20yrs old had died and a new generation was represented in the 600k.
I'm not even sure what to make of it but there was a complete turnover in population and yet they continued on their journey to follow God--admittedly in their imperfect human way.
no big ah ha, just interesting.
knut