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Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 43 This chapter is based on Deuteronomy 31 to 34. In all the dealings of God with His people there is, mingled with His love and mercy, the most striking evidence of His strict and impartial justice. This is exemplified in the history of the Hebrew people. God had bestowed great blessings…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 42 This chapter is based on Deuteronomy 4 to 6; 28. The Lord announced to Moses that the appointed time for the possession of Canaan was at hand; and as the aged prophet stood upon the heights overlooking the river Jordan and the Promised Land, he gazed with deep interest upon the…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 41 This chapter is based on Numbers 25. With joyful hearts and renewed faith in God, the victorious armies of Israel had returned from Bashan. They had already gained possession of a valuable territory, and they were confident of the immediate conquest of Canaan. Only the river Jordan lay between them and…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 40 This chapter is based on Numbers 22 to 24. Returning to the Jordan from the conquest of Bashan, the Israelites, in preparation for the immediate invasion of Canaan, encamped beside the river, above its entrance into the Dead Sea, and just opposite the plain of Jericho. They were upon the very…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 39 This chapter is based on Deuteronomy 2; 3:1-11. After passing to the south of Edom, the Israelites turned northward, and again set their faces toward the Promised Land. Their route now lay over a vast, elevated plain, swept by cool, fresh breezes from the hills. It was a welcome change from…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 38 This chapter is based on Numbers 20:14-29; 21:1-9. The encampment of Israel at Kadesh was but a short distance from the borders of Edom, and both Moses and the people greatly desired to follow the route through this country to the Promised Land; accordingly they sent a message, as God had…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 37 This chapter is based on Numbers 20:1-13. From the smitten rock in Horeb first flowed the living stream that refreshed Israel in the desert. During all their wanderings, wherever the need existed, they were supplied with water by a miracle of God’s mercy. The water did not, however, continue to flow…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 36 For nearly forty years the children of Israel are lost to view in the obscurity of the desert. “The space,” says Moses, “in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 35 This chapter is based on Numbers 16 and 17. The judgments visited upon the Israelites served for a time to restrain their murmuring and insubordination, but the spirit of rebellion was still in the heart and eventually brought forth the bitterest fruits. The former rebellions had been mere popular tumults, arising…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 34 This chapter is based on Numbers 13 and 14. Eleven days after leaving Mount Horeb the Hebrew host encamped at Kadesh, in the wilderness of Paran, which was not far from the borders of the Promised Land. Here it was proposed by the people that spies be sent up to survey…