Balaam, Peor, TransJordan

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Balaam, Peor, Trans-Jordan

• Numbers 22-36

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Resistance from Moab through Balaam

• Num 221-6 Moabs king Balak, with elders of
  Midian, calls for Balaam (from far away) to come
  curse Israel.
• Num 227-14 God tells Balaam not to go, and he
  sends his refusal.
• Num 2215-20 God allows Balaam to go, but only
  to follow his directions.
• Num 2221-35 The Lord warns Balaam through his
  donkey who talks!
• Num 23-24 Balaam blesses Israel (repeatedly).
• (Numbers 3116 - Balaam counsels Israel to sin at
  Peor)

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The Sin with Baal-Peor

• Num 251-13 Israelite men mix sexual immorality
  and Baal worship with Moabite women and a
  Midianite woman.
• Phinehas spears a couple
• 24,000 die.
• Re-orientation In Trans-Jordan

• Num 26 The 2nd census
• Num 27 Future plans
• 1-14 Female Inheritance
• 15-23 Joshua To Lead After Moses
• Num 28-30 Convocation, Offerings and Vows

Num 31 Midianites Destroyed 1-8 All men
killed 9-13 Women, children and property
captured 14-18 Execution of all but virgin girls
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Dividing Up the Promised LandDeut 32-33

• Tribes East of the Jordan River
• 321-5 Reuben Gad want to stay in the good
  pasture
• 321-8 At first Moses thinks they are afraid.
• 3216-19 They say they will fight with
  fellow-Israelites across the Jordan, the settle
  back to the east without any territory in the
  West.
• They agree.

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Preparing For The Promised Land Num 33-34

• Review of all that brought them this far 331-49
• Commanded treatment of nations West of the Jordan
• 3350-52 Drive out nations and destroy all signs
  of idolatry
• 3353-56 Divide up the land proportionally, or
  else....
• Land of Promise Defined 341-15
• 1-5 South Dead Sea to Great Sea (_at_Brook of
  Egypt)
• 6 West limit Great Sea (Mediterranean)
• 7-9 North Mediterranean to Hazar-enan
• 10-12 East Hazar-enan to Sea of Galilee/Dead
  Sea
• 13-15 Eastern Extension 2½ tribe
• Leaders of tribes appointed 3416-29
• Cities defined for Levites and for Refuge 35
• Female inheritance 36