Numbers 27:12-22

Joshua to Succeed Moses

12 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain in the Abarim Range and see the land I have given the Israelites.
13 After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was,
14 for when the community rebelled at the waters in the Desert of Zin, both of you disobeyed my command to honor me as holy before their eyes.” (These were the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the Desert of Zin.)
15 Moses said to the LORD,
16 “May the LORD, the God who gives breath to all living things, appoint someone over this community
17 to go out and come in before them, one who will lead them out and bring them in, so the LORD’s people will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”
18 So the LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit of leadership,[a] and lay your hand on him.
19 Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and the entire assembly and commission him in their presence.
20 Give him some of your authority so the whole Israelite community will obey him.
21 He is to stand before Eleazar the priest, who will obtain decisions for him by inquiring of the Urim before the LORD. At his command he and the entire community of the Israelites will go out, and at his command they will come in.”
22 Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua and had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole assembly.

Cross References 18

  • 1. Numbers 23:14
  • 2. Numbers 33:47; Jeremiah 22:20
  • 3. Deuteronomy 3:23-27; Deuteronomy 32:48-52
  • 4. S Leviticus 14:34
  • 5. Numbers 20:12; Numbers 31:2; Deuteronomy 4:22; Deuteronomy 31:14; Deuteronomy 32:50; 1 Kings 2:1
  • 6. Numbers 20:28
  • 7. S Nu 20:1,2-5
  • 8. S Numbers 20:12
  • 9. S Exodus 17:7; Deuteronomy 32:51; Psalms 106:32
  • 10. S Numbers 16:22; S Job 21:20
  • 11. Deuteronomy 31:2; 1 Kings 22:17; 2 Chronicles 18:16; Ezekiel 34:5; Zechariah 10:2; S Matthew 9:36; Mark 6:34
  • 12. S Genesis 41:38; Numbers 11:25-29
  • 13. ver 23; Deuteronomy 34:9; Acts 6:6
  • 14. ver 23; Deuteronomy 3:28; Deuteronomy 31:14,23
  • 15. Deuteronomy 31:7
  • 16. Joshua 1:16,17
  • 17. S Genesis 25:22; Joshua 9:14; Psalms 106:13; Isaiah 8:19; Haggai 1:13; Malachi 2:7; Malachi 3:1
  • 18. S Exodus 28:30

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