Study Desk

They traveled from Ezion-geber and camped in the Wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh).

They traveled from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor on the edge of the land of Edom.

They traveled from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.

They traveled from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.

They traveled from Punon and camped at Oboth.

They traveled from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim on the border of Moab.

They traveled from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.

They traveled from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.

They traveled from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the Abarim range facing Nebo.

They traveled from the Abarim range and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs for your eyes and thorns for your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.

If they marry any of the men from the other Israelite tribes, their inheritance will be taken away from our fathers’ inheritance and added to that of the tribe into which they marry. Therefore, part of our allotted inheritance would be taken away.

When the Jubilee comes for the Israelites, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”

They married men from the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father’s clan.

“Then all of you approached me and said, ‘Let’s send men ahead of us, so that they may explore the land for us and bring us back a report about the route we should go up and the cities we will come to.’

They left and went up into the hill country and came to the Valley of Eshcol, scouting the land.

They took some of the fruit from the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us back a report: ‘The land the Lord our God is giving us is good.’

Your children, whom you said would be plunder, your sons who don’t yet know good from evil, will enter there. I will give them the land, and they will take possession of it.

Then the Amorites who lived there came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir as far as Hormah.

a great and numerous people, tall as the Anakim. The Lord destroyed the Rephaim at the advance of the Ammonites, so that they drove them out and settled in their place.