Living Room Study

Numbers 33
 
“But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become thorns in your eyes and in yours sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.  And what I planned to do to them, I will do to you.”  Numbers 33:55-56
 
The [...]

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Isaiah 47
 
“I was angry with My people; I profaned My possession, and placed them under your control.  You showed them no mercy; you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.  You said: ‘I will be the mistress forever.’  You did not take these things to heart or think about their outcome.  So now hear [...]

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Isaiah 46
 
“Bel Crouches; Nebo cowers.  Their idols are consigned to beasts and cattle.  The images you carry are loaded, as a burden for the weary animal.  The gods cower; they crouch together; they are not able to rescue the burden, but they themselves go into captivity.  ‘Listen to me house of Jacob, all the remnant [...]

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Numbers 32
 
“The Gadites and the Reubenites replied, ‘What the Lord has spoken to your servants is what we will do.  We will cross over (the Jordan) in battle formation before the Lord into the land of Canaan, but we will keep our hereditary possession across the Jordan.’  So Moses gave them – the Gadites, Reubenites, [...]

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Isaiah 45
 
“Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground.  Does the clay say to the Potter, ‘What are you making?’  Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?”  Isaiah 45:9
 
Isaiah 44:28 introduced us once more to Cyrus.  It would be difficult to [...]

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Numbers 30
 
“But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, none of her vows and none of the obligations she put herself under are binding.  The Lord will absolve her because her father prohibited her.”  Numbers 30:6
 
“But if her husband prohibits her when he hears about it he will cancel her [...]

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Isaiah 44
 
“And now listen Jacob My servant, Israel whom I have chosen.  This is the word of the Lord your Maker who shaped you from birth: He will help you: do not fear; Jacob is My servant; I have chosen Jeshurun.  For I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry [...]

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Numbers 29
 
“You are to hold a sacred assembly in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, and you are not to do any daily work.  This will be a day of jubilation for you.”  Numbers 29:1
 
Isn’t it amazing that the Lord has to tell us to rest?  Not only does He tell [...]

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Numbers 28
 
“The Lord spoke to Moses, ‘Command the Israelites and say to them: Be sure to present to Me at its appointed time, My offering and My food as My fire offering, a pleasing aroma to Me.’”  Numbers 28:1-2
 
I grew up in a church environment where people spoke of “giving to the Lord” in two [...]

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Numbers 27
 
“When the community quarreled in the Wilderness of Zin, both you and your brother Aaron rebelled against My command to uphold My holiness in their sight at the waters.  Those were the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.  So Moses appealed to the Lord, ‘May the Lord, the God of [...]

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