Numbers Interpretation, A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Death of the Old Generation Numbers 1-25...................9 Obedient beginnings: Preparation for the March of the Holy people of God in the Wilderness .........9 Numbers 1-10............9 Census of the twelve tribes: Grains of Sand, Stars of Heaven , and the Promises of God .........10 The ministry of Administration : The organization and Leadership of God`s People ..........19 The ministry of priests and levities ..............24 The Ultimate word is Peace: The priestly blessing of the Community ...........40 The ministry of Stewardship................44 A second passover and a new Beginning : The Inauguration of the march of the holy camp of Israel ........50 An Abrupt slide into rebellion : The death of the first wilderness Generation begins .......60 Hitting Bottom : The end of the first Generation - Signs of Hope in the midst of Death ............133 2. The rise of a New generation on the Edge of the Promised Land Numbers 26-36 A second Census : The rise of a New Generation of Hope ........160 The Daughters of Zelophehad and the Inheritance of the Land : A legal Dispute resolved .........163 The Succession of Leadership from moses to Josua: A new generation of Leadership.....168 War against the midianites: Judgement for past sin, foretaste of a Future conquest ........176 A crisis averted, a Journey remembered.....181 Law as promise: The division of Land, Levitical and refuge cities, and the Daughters of Zelophehad Revisited .........186