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Numbers 21 |
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The Massacre of the Aradites
These verses demonstrate the power of prayer: If you ask God,
he will destroy entire cities for you.
God's 23rd Killing
(21:2) "Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities."
(21:3) "The Lord harkened to the the voice of Israel, and ... utterly destroyed them and their cities."
 (21:5-6)
God sent fiery serpents to bite the people for complaining about the lack of food and water
God's 24th Killing
What the Bible says about God
(21:5) "The people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?
for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread."
(21:6) "The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people,
and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died."
 (21:7-9)
God's cure for snakebite: a brass serpent on a pole.
To save the people from God's snakes, Moses makes a graven image in the form of a
snake (breaking the second commandment) and puts it on a pole. Those who look at
Moses' magic snake to not die -- even if they were previously bit by God's
snakes.
Is it OK to make images?
Is magic OK?
What the Bible says about magic
(21:7) "Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee;
pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people."
(21:8) "And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole:
and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live."
(21:9) "And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a
serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived."
(21:14)
"The Book of the wars of the Lord"
One of the lost books of the Bible
Wikipedia
-The Book of the wars of the Lord
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And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell
that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and
took some of them prisoners.
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And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed
deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
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And the LORD hearkened
to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly
destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place
Hormah.
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And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass
the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of
the way.
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And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye
brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread,
neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
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| 21:6
And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much
people of Israel died.
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Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have
spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take
away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
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And the LORD said unto
Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass,
that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
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And Moses made a
serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a
serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
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And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
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And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness
which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
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From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
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From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is
in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon
is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
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Wherefore it is said in the book of
the wars of the LORD, What he did in
the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
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And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and
lieth upon the border of Moab.
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And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake
unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
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Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
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The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the
direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they
went to Mattanah:
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And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth: |
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And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top
of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon. |
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And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, |
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Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into
the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go
along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders. |
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And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon
gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the
wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel. |
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And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land
from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of
the children of Ammon was strong. |
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And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of
the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof. |
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For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought
against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand,
even unto Arnon. |
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Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city
of Sihon be built and prepared: |
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For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon:
it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon. |
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Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his
sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the
Amorites. |
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We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have
laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba. |
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Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. |
 (21:34-35)
Another God-assisted genocide: Bashan and all his people.
God delivers the Amorites into Moses' hands. (You're in God hands with Moses.) So Moses does the Christian thing, killing
everyone "until there was none left alive."
God's 30th Killing
(21:34) "And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people."
(21:35) "So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land."
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And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and
drove out the Amorites that were there.
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And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of
Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at
Edrei.
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And the LORD said unto
Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his
people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto
Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
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So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive:
and they possessed his land.
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