Study Desk

The Lord your God has made you grow in number so that there are as many of you as there are stars in the sky.

I pray that the Lord , the God of your ancestors, will give you a thousand times more people and do all the wonderful things he promised.

When you judge, be fair to everyone; don't act as if one person is more important than another, and don't be afraid of anyone, because your decision comes from God. Bring the hard cases to me, and I will judge them."

Then, as the Lord our God commanded us, we left Mount Sinai and went toward the mountain country of the Amorite people. We went through that large and terrible desert you saw, and then we came to Kadesh Barnea.

I said to you, "You have now come to the mountain country of the Amorites, to the land the Lord our God will give us.

Look, here it is! Go up and take it. The Lord , the God of your ancestors, told you to do this, so don't be afraid and don't worry."

They took some of the fruit from that land and brought it down to us, saying, "It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us."

But you refused to go. You would not obey the command of the Lord your God,

The Lord your God will go ahead of you and fight for you as he did in Egypt; you saw him do it.

And in the desert you saw how the Lord your God carried you, like one carries a child. And he has brought you safely all the way to this place."

But you still did not trust the Lord your God, even though

Then you said to me, "We have sinned against the Lord , but now we will go up and fight, as the Lord our God commanded us." Then all of you put on weapons, thinking it would be easy to go into the mountains.

The Lord your God has blessed everything you have done; he has protected you while you traveled through this great desert. The Lord your God has been with you for the past forty years, and you have had everything you needed.

The descendants of Esau in Edom let us go through their land, and so did the Moabites in Ar. We want to cross the Jordan River into the land the Lord our God has given us."

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass, because the Lord your God had made him stubborn. The Lord wanted you to defeat Sihon, and now this has happened.

but the Lord our God gave Sihon to us. We defeated him, his sons, and all his army.

We defeated Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Ravine, and we defeated the town in the ravine, and even as far as Gilead. No town was too strong for us; the Lord our God gave us all of them.

But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, on the shores of the Jabbok River, or the towns in the mountains, as the Lord our God had commanded.

So the Lord our God gave us Og king of Bashan and all his army; we defeated them and left no one alive.

At that time I gave you this command: "The Lord your God has given you this land as your own. Now your fighting men must take their weapons, and you must lead the other Israelites across the river.