Numbers 13:1-3
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Send thou men, that they may search the land of
Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their
fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the
wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
a.
This was not God’s original idea.
The leaders of the tribes came to Moses, and though it doesn’t say it, Moses
took it to God, and as we see here he obviously agreed and gave him the command
to send the spies.
1). Deuteronomy 1:22, 23 “And ye came near unto me every one
of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search out the
land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities
we shall come.
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of
you, one of a tribe:
b. Israel going into the promised land is not a type
and foreshadow of going to heaven, it is a type and foreshadow of by faith getting
our inheritance.
c. Part of Israel’s inheritance was on the east side of
Jordan. This was the area conquered while Moses was still alive, the kings and
their kingdoms, Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og king of Bashan.
1).
Joshua 12:1-6 Now these are the kings of
the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the
other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount
Hermon, and all the plain on the east:
Sihon
king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon
the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half
Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of
Ammon;
And
from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the
plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the
south, under Ashdothpisgah:
And
the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that
dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
And
reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of
the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king
of Heshbon.
Them
did Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of Israel smite:
and Moses the servant of the Lord gave it for a possession unto the
Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
d. The other part of Israel’s inheritance was on the west
side of the Jordan and was conquered under Joshua’s leadership after the death
of Moses. I involved conquering 31 kings.
1).
Joshua 12:7-24 And these are the
kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side
Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount
Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a
possession according to their divisions;
In
the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and
in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and
the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
The
king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
The
king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
The
king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
The
king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
The
king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
The
king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
The
king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
The
king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
The
king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
The
king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
The
king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
The
king of Shimronmeron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
The
king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
The
king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;
The
king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one;
The
king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
e. All of these kingdoms were spied out.
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