Numbers 33:47-56

47 left Almon Diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim (Across-the-River), within sight of Nebo.

48 After they left the mountains of Abarim they camped on the Plains of Moab at Jordan-Jericho.

49 On the Plains of Moab their camp stretched along the banks of the Jordan from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim (Acacia Meadow).

50 God spoke to Moses on the Plains of Moab at Jordan-Jericho:

51 "Tell the People of Israel, When you cross the Jordan into the country of Canaan,

52 drive out the native population before you, destroy their carved idols, destroy their cast images, level their worship-mounds

53 so that you take over the land and make yourself at home in it; I've given it to you. It's yours.

54 "Divide up the land by lot according to the size of your clans: Large clans will get large tracts of land, small clans will get smaller tracts of land. However the lot falls, that's it. Divide it up according to your ancestral tribes.

55 "But if you don't drive out the native population, everyone you let stay there will become a cinder in your eye and a splinter in your foot. They'll give you endless trouble right in your own backyards.

56 And I'll start treating you the way I planned to treat them."

Numbers 33:47-56 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 33

This chapter gives an account of the journeys of the people of Israel, from their first coming out of Egypt, to their arrival in the plains of Moab by Jordan, and the names of the various stations where they rested are given, Nu 33:1-49 and they are ordered, when they passed over Jordan, to drive out the Canaanites, destroy their idols, and divide the land among their families in their several tribes, Nu 33:50-54 or otherwise it is threatened the Canaanites should be troublesome and vexatious to them, even those that remained; and it might be expected God would do to the Israelites as he thought to do to those nations, Nu 33:55,56.