Numbers 33.
GOD recalls to His people, the way they had come, now that their long journey almost ended. Their stopping places are named, but not a word is said of the murmuring, and even rebellion against Him on the way. How gracious God is! It was good for His people to recall the way they had been brought, and no doubt they thought with shame of their past waywardness as they faced the home prepared for them across the river of death.
The closing verses of the chapter bring out the fact that there was to be war in taking possession of the land; its inhabitants were to be entirely driven away, and all their idols, and everything that belonged to them, were to be destroyed.
Failure to carry out God’s desire for them meant sorrow and vexation, and the certain judgment of God. We shall see what this became, D. V., as we go on through the succeeding books of the Bible.
ML 07/27/1924