Introduction
Events in the last year in the wilderness.
Questions
1. What does Israel vow to do if God enables them to defeat Arad and his Canaanites?
v 2 ... “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”
2. What do the people say to Moses when they become weary of travelling?
v 5 ... Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”
3. Which king had Sihon fought against and taken his land?
v 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.
Summary Points
- v 1 to 3 Arad, a local king, attacks the Israelites and is destroyed
- v 4 to 6 The people complain again and are bitten by snakes which kill many of them
- v 7 to 9 The people admit their faults. Moses makes a bronze model of a snake and puts it on a pole. Anyone dying from a snake bite, who shows faith by looking at the bronze snake, lives
- v 10 to 30 The Israelites continue their journey. Sihon, king of the Amorites, refuses their request to pass through his territory. The Amorites are defeated when they attack the Israelites
v 31 to 36 The Israelites defeat Og king of Bashan at Edrei