Sermons and Biblical Studies

The Hebrew Right to Canaan—What It Was Not Some of our readers have been tired by the questions—What right had the Israelites to Canaan, a country already occupied? What right to disturb the inhabitants in the peaceable possession of it? What right to wage a war of extermination against nations who had never given them … Continue reading ““161. THE HEBREW RIGHT TO CANAAN—WHAT IT WAS NOT””

The Passage—Joshua 3 During great part of the year the waters of the Jordan are so low that the river is fordable in many places. But in spring and early summer, or “in all the time of harvest,” the river is in flood. It then “overflows all its banks,” and is a strong and rapid … Continue reading ““160. THE PASSAGE—JOSHUA 3””

Espials—Joshua 2 It must have been very evident to Joshua that the large and strong city of Jericho, which lay embosomed among its palm trees on the other side of the river, must be the first object of his operations on entering the land of Canaan. Very much depended upon the result of this initiatory … Continue reading ““159. ESPIALS—JOSHUA 2””

Death and Character of Moses—Deuteronomy 34 The day approached when Moses must die. The people for whom he had so long cared, and whom he had so anxiously led, were now ready to enter the promised land; but he was forbidden to go in with them. His work was done; his great task was accomplished; … Continue reading ““158. DEATH AND CHARACTER OF MOSES—DEUTERONOMY 34””

The Midianites—Numbers 25; Numbers 31 Among the people who had heard and discussed the doings of the Israelites since their migration from Egypt—it must have been notorious that there had been signal punishments inflicted upon them for breaches of fealty to their king. Pondering this in his mind, the infernal sagacity of Balaam led him … Continue reading ““157. THE MIDIANITES—NUMBERS 25; NUMBERS 31””

God and Mammon—Numbers 23-24 Who are these two upon the mountains that overlook the camp of Israel? That one who gazes with rapt attention upon the scene is the prophet of Pethor; the other, who with eager solicitude points out all the circumstances of the scene, is the king of Moab, who has brought him … Continue reading ““156. GOD AND MAMMON—NUMBERS 23-24””

Numbers 23 -Joshua 3 : Twentieth Week Autor: JOHN KITTO

Balaam’s Ass—Num_22:6-35 Having yesterday considered the character of Balaam, we shall today be the better able to understand his conduct. As he could not but have been aware that the people he was called upon, by the ambassadors of Moab, to curse, were the peculiar objects of Jehovah’s care, a plain and decisive refusal to … Continue reading ““154. BALAAM’S ASS—NUMBERS 22:6-35””

Balaam—Numbers 22 Somewhere among the highlands of Mesopotamia, upon the Euphrates, eighteen or twenty days distant from the plains of Moab, was a place called Pethor, where abode a diviner named Balaam (more correctly Bileam), whose fame was widely spread through all this region. It had even reached the land of Moab, whose king, Balak … Continue reading ““153. BALAAM—NUMBERS 22””

Malediction—Numbers 22 The overthrow of the Amorites opened the way for the march of the Israelites to “the plains of Moab,” where they remained encamped during all the subsequent transactions until they passed the Jordan into the promised land. These plains are formed by a narrow stripe of land, scarcely two leagues in breadth, lying … Continue reading ““152. MALEDICTION—NUMBERS 22””