It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and ...
The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the LORD. For the LORD had sworn to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give ...
“Her dignity had to be guarded, and she could not be treated like a slave. The fact that female prisoners of war could be taken as wives by the Israelites does not sanction the practice so much as regulate and transform an existing evil.” ...
I have answered similar questions before regarding the apparent “delays” in God’s timetable. For example, we have previously considered the question, “Why did Jesus wait three days to rise from the dead?” and “Why is Jesus waiting so long before He comes again?” Obviously, those que...
The Land Covenant. The Davidic Covenant. The New Covenant. What can we learn from the life of Abraham? He never stopped believing God's promise, for he was made strong in his faith to father a child. ... What we can learn from Abraham is thathis focus was on God's power to fulfi...
Achan’s Sin - But the Israelites did not obey God. There was a man from the tribe of Judah named Achan son of Carmi, grandson of Zimri,
14Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. 15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, ju...
18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God. (Deut 20.16ff) These are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad...
8 Your ·ancestors [fathers] did the same thing. I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look at the land. 9 They went as far as the ·Valley of [Wadi] Eshcol, and when they saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the ·Israelites [L sons/T children of Israel] from going ...
We see that the Lord is set against them. In fact, He calls Edom "the wicked land" in contrast to Israel, the Holy Land! They are a people who are always under the wrath of God. Now we understand the difference between being hated and loved by God. The Hebrew words for "loved" ...