Living Room Study

Numbers 4
 
“Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel registered all the Levites by their clans and their ancestral houses, from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who was qualified to do the work of serving at the tent of meeting and transporting it.  Their registered men numbered 8,580.  At the Lord’s command, they [...]

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Isaiah 18
 
“Ah!  A land buzzing with insect wings beyond the rivers of Cush sends envoys by the sea, in reed vessels.  Go swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared near and far, a powerful nation with a strange language, whose land is divided by rivers.  All you inhabitants of the [...]

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Isaiah 17
 
“An oracle against Damascas: Look, Damascas is no longer a city.  It has become a ruined heap.  The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be places for flocks.  They will lie down without fear.  The fortress disappears from Ephraim, and a kingdom from Damascas.  The remnant of Aram will be like the splendor [...]

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Isaiah 16
 
“We have heard of Moab’s pride – how very proud he is – his haughtiness and pride his arrogance, and his empty boasts.” Isaiah 16:6
 
Isaiah’s prophecy concerning the Moabites covers two chapters: 15-16.  Chapter 15 gives a picture of total destruction.  16 gives some of the causes of Moab’s downfall.  The devastation is complete [...]

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Numbers 2
 
“The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: ‘The Israelites are to camp under their respective banners beside the flags of their ancestral houses.  They are to camp around the tent of meeting, at a distance from it:”  Numbers 2:1-2
 
As we learned in Leviticus, God is very concerned with order.  The Lord wants things separate, [...]

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Numbers 1
 
“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of every male one by one.  You and Aaron are to register those who are 20 years old or more, by their military divisions – everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.  A man from each [...]

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Isaiah 14
 
“The Lord will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and will settle them in their own land.  Aliens will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.  Nations will take them and bring them to their own place.  And the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants [...]

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Leviticus 27
 
“And these are the commands the Lord gave Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai”  Leviticus 27:34
 
Many years ago, when I read the Torah for the 1st time, I was shocked to learn that God gave Moses more than 10 commandments!  He gave 613, to be exact.  These are not the commands of men, [...]

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Leviticus 26
 
“Yet in spite of this, while they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or abhor them, so as to destroy them and break my covenant with them, since I am the Lord their God.  For their sake, I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out [...]

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Isaiah 13
 
“Look, the day of the Lord is coming – cruel, with rage and burning anger – and to destroy the sinners on it.  Indeed the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light.  The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will not shine.  I will bring [...]

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