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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Numbers 14:10-16 Behold, he prays!
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 14:10-16 10 Still the entire community threatened to stone them to death. It’s astonishing that Moses was threatened with getting stoned to death. Stoning was the punishment for sins like idolatry (Leviticus 20:2; Deuteronomy 3:6-10), witchcraft or astrology (Leviticus 20:27), blasphemy (Leviticus 24:14), and adultery (Deuteronomy 22:23-24). Here Moses was […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 14:1-9 Crisis at Kadesh
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 14:1-9 The spies had given their report. The majority admitted that the land was rich and filled with good things God had promised, but they were afraid of the Canaanite people. They couldn’t get the image of towering giants out of their minds. The minority (Caleb and Joshua) encouraged the […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 13:30-33 A bad report
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 13:30-33 30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We should go up now and take possession of it, because we can certainly conquer it!” The majority report of the spies upset the people. The main complaint will be restated below: The Canaanites looked too big to fight. […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 1:32-34 demons
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU MARK 1:32-34 32 That evening, when the sun had set, the people kept bringing to him all who were sick and demon-possessed. 33 The whole town gathered at the door. 34 He healed many people who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. But he did not allow […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 13:26-29 Giants and Canaanites
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 13:26-29 I made an error in yesterday’s devotion in the paragraph about the building of Hebron. I will submit a replacement for it in the near future, and my apologies for the mistake, entirely my fault. The Report About Canaan 26 They came back to Moses, Aaron, and the entire […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 13:21-25 Grace carried on a pole
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 13:21-25 21 So they went up and scouted the land from the Wilderness of Zin to Rehob, toward Lebo Hamath. 22 They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 13:17-21 The spies enter Canaan
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 13:17-20 17 Moses sent them to scout the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up this way through the Negev and go up into the hill country. 18 See what the land is like. See if the people who live in the land are strong or weak. See […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 13:1-16 Twelve spies
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 13:1-16 Scouting Canaan 13 The LORD spoke to Moses: 2 “Send men to scout the land of Canaan, which I myself am giving to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, each one a tribal chief among the people of Israel.” 3 Moses sent […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 12:10-16 Miriam’s leprosy
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 12:10-16 10 The cloud went up from above the tent, and immediately Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron turned to Miriam and saw that she was leprous. Hansen’s disease, or “true” leprosy, may or may not have existed in the Middle East in Old Testament times. Commentaries that […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 1:29-31 The mother of Peter’s wife
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU MARK 1:29-31 Jesus Heals Many 29 They left the synagogue and went with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew. 30 Simon’s mother-in-law was lying in bed, sick with a fever. Jesus was probably invited to have dinner with Peter and Andrew. We don’t know whether Andrew was […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 12:4-9 The Lord’s anger burned
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 12:4-9 4 Right then the LORD spoke suddenly to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “You three come out to the Tent of Meeting!” The three of them came out. 5 The LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance to the tent. He called Aaron and […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 12:1-3 Moses the humble man
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 12:1-3 Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses 12 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married (for he had married a Cushite woman). Miriam was the one who led this attack on her brother’s authority. Her name is first, and the verb “spoke against” in […]
