Thank you!

My goal when I started up this blog was to keep it going for a full 12 months. I’ve stopped just a little short of that. I’ve tried to stay as closely as possible to posting the readings/sections of Scripture from LaGard Smith’s Daily Bible. This was going to be extremely difficult and cumbersome to keep up with through the books of Exodus through Deuteronomy due to way the readings were divided (endless cutting and pasting). So this blog is signing off.

Thanks for your participation in this during this past year. I would encourage everyone to continue using the Daily Bible or some program for daily Bible reading- in fact you can find a number of websites (like this blog) that give a daily reading schedule.

Thanks again for using the blog and staying on me to keep up with the postings.

‘Blessings,

Keith

 

Deut. 9-11

Deuteronomy 9

Not Because of Israel’s Righteousness

 ¹ Hear, Israel: You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky. ² The people are strong and tall—Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: “Who can stand up against the Anakites?” ³ But be assured today that the LORD your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the LORD has promised you.

 

Deut. 5-8

Deuteronomy 5

The Ten Commandments

 ¹ Moses summoned all Israel and said:

   Hear, Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them. ² The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. ³ It was not with our ancestors^[a] that the LORD made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today. ⁴ The LORD spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain. ⁵ (At that time I stood between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:

 ⁶ “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

 

Deut. 1-4

Deuteronomy 1

The Command to Leave Horeb

 ¹ These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—that is, in the Arabah—opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab. ² (It takes eleven days to go from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road.)

 

Num. 27; 32-35

Numbers 27

Zelophehad’s Daughters

 ¹ The daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. The names of the daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah and Tirzah. They came forward ² and stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders and the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said, ³ “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among Korah’s followers, who banded together against the LORD, but he died for his own sin and left no sons. ⁴ Why should our father’s name disappear from his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father’s relatives.”

 

Num. 26

Numbers 26

The Second Census

 ¹ After the plague the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, ² “Take a census of the whole Israelite community by families—all those twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army of Israel.” ³ So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them and said, ⁴ “Take a census of the men twenty years old or more, as the LORD commanded Moses.”

 

Num 25, 31

Numbers 25

Moab Seduces Israel

 ¹ While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, ² who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. ³ So Israel yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. And the LORD’s anger burned against them.

 

Num. 22-24

Numbers 22

Balak Summons Balaam

 ¹ Then the Israelites traveled to the plains of Moab and camped along the Jordan across from Jericho.

 ² Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites, ³ and Moab was terrified because there were so many people. Indeed, Moab was filled with dread because of the Israelites.

 

Num. 20-21, 33

Numbers 20

Water From the Rock

 ¹ In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

 

Num 16-18

Numbers 16

Korah, Dathan and Abiram

 ¹ Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and certain Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—became insolent^{[a] 2} and rose up against Moses. With them were 250 Israelite men, well-known community leaders who had been appointed members of the council. ³ They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the LORD’s assembly?”